Halt Heretic - Opinions

Tuidjy · #1 March 7th, 2008, 08:42 PM

What really bothers me about Ulm (among many other things) is that they have the
equipment, they just do not know how to use it.

1. Give the arbalest guys a pavise (tower shield) to duck behind, and they will
become the terror of the battlefield.

2. Have some of the infantry wear the arbalesters' cuiraces, give them the
knights' kite shields, the pikemen's half helmets, and a simple shortsword.
Can you say awesome medium infantry?

3. As for the black knights, have them go on a quest to find their daddy's
broadsword, and to help them look, give them a half helmet.

Now, if the damn smiths would get off their asses and actually apply their
supposed skill on lightening the above MUNDANE equipment, THEN would Ulm have
a claim to 'excellent equipment'.

Also, I wish they would get a MASS reinvigoration spell based on Earth magic.
Why isn't there one? After all Earth=reinvigoration since the days of Antaios.

chrispedersen · #2 March 7th, 2008, 09:55 PM

I'll reiterate my previous post. Before you speculate - do some trials. I've tried three games with the current patch. I think Ulm is now one of the strongest LA nations.

Sombre · #3 March 7th, 2008, 09:59 PM

He's primarily talking about MA Ulm though.

LA Ulm always had some stuff going for it and got quite a boost with the improvements to the iron faith and ghoul guardians (which are now pretty hot units).

Xietor · #4 March 7th, 2008, 10:01 PM

no one on this thread was talking about LA Ulm. We are all talking about MA Ulm.

Saulot · #5 March 8th, 2008, 01:46 AM

No offense, but at what point do you look at someone's request and think 'edacious and insatiable'?

Tuidjy · #6 March 8th, 2008, 02:59 AM

I always thought that edacious was about food, and insatiable about sex. :-)
Hell, my gut feeling is that MA Ulm is still weak, I would like them to really
be a viable nation. Until I play a MA game that they're in, I will not be able
to speak from experience. Every halfway decent player can trounce the AI, even
on impossible.

The new guardians have covered one of Ulm's vulnerabilities. I feel they have a
few more left but what the Hell, I am shutting up until I try them, or at least
fight them in MP.

B0rsuk · #7 March 8th, 2008, 03:14 AM

Ulm may not be viable for you or Zeldor, but perfectly fine for people who like unusual nations, experimentation, and some challenge.

Sir_Dr_D · #8 March 8th, 2008, 03:19 AM

These changes make Ulm a much more interesting nation at any rate.

I don't think anyone has comment on the changes to the black plate. No one, will poitn and laugh anymore at how clumsy the black plate soldiers look as they try to make it from one side of the battlefield to the other without collapsing from exhastion. The black plate is now something to be feared.

Jotunheim in particular will really fear those black halbreds, and the black halbreds will be able stop short pythium Angels, and other sacred SCs. They will be quite a force.

Halt scared sounds cool, but I don't think it will be that effective.

Its nice to give ulm a choice of mages. Only the one kind mind ulm kind of boring.