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[bernardo]

The fall of Ulm

Chapter 1: Cult of Illuminated
The Iron Faith won the civil war against the Master Smiths.
The Malediction hits the Land.
The Hunger overcomes many Guardians and Counts.
The Cult of Illuminated is founded to harness the power of the Malediction.
Young Women start to disappear.
Fur-cladded barbarians appear in the north mountains. Fortunetellers tell they are responsible for the disappearence. The Hochmeisters do nothing, and direct Ulm's troops to the farmlands of the sout, instead of the holy Mountains in the north, which fall completly under the Mountain Fey dominion.

Chapter Two: The Red Terror
The kidnappings increase.
The Cult discovers that the Malediction is a living entity.
Malediction awaken.
The Cult secretly pleads fealty to the Pretender God.
Malediction wears the Mantle of the latter Iron Faith's God and they too plead fealty.
Vampire Counts awaken.
Iron Faith dissidents start a partisan movement, which base is in the lands of a rogue Vampire Count, Günther.

Chapter 3: Cults of Blood and Death.
Agartha attacks Locmar.
The Siege is long, and bring back the terrible memories of the breaking of The Black Cidatel.
Rangers start a deep strike plan, and break with the Ulm's main force before the Recover of Locmar plan, which fails.
Locmar falls and Agartha marches to Ulm's Black Forest.
A Vampire Count try, despairately, to cut enemy lines, but fails, and the ranger strike force is killed.
Faced with a hopeless situation, General Bernardo abandons the command of Ulm's war effort. General Andrea Inseldorf (AI) assume the control of the Ulm's last stand.

[zenphos]

Very nice post Bernardo. Shame you are withdrawing. You could have out up a desperate last stand.
But well played none the less, I suddenly got very nervous once that vampire count and rangers appeared out of nowhere.

[Profanicus]

Hmmm I have a feeling that the AI will not respect our NAP with Ulm!

[zenphos]

Probably not. But the AI does normally declare war first before he invades so you might get a turn or 2 to fortify.

[bernardo]

Zenphos: Unfortunettlly, I discovered too late the Ulm's stealth power. The game is lost when all you can do is hamper a little your oponnent. In my case, it was lost when I send my ranger teams into a fortified province without early scouting the local defenses. With that defeat attrition war wasn't a option anymore. There is some well-positioned Second Tier Illuminated and two Vampire Counts, but there is no hope to victory, you are in the Black Forest with a large army of which my normal armies cannot defeat one to one and you have more fortifications.
It was fun, and I learned a lot about Ulm, Black Forest. That was a fun war to play, for a moment I thought a could win, but, in the end, I was defeated.

Profanicus: I hope the AI don't attack you. Zenpohos is at the door of my two last Strongholds, soon all my former troops will be trapped in the fort. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Zenzei]

This is how I sub minor nations that have staled 4 turns in a row against one the leader nations.
/good natured bragging

If that is the best Man can do I will seriously roll over him during my subbing time, makes me wonder if I should have attacked Man instead of Midgård when I was in game myself.

To other nations: Looking for room to expand into? Now would be the time to eye those fertile lands, except the capitol which will C'tis'reward, under Man control because the Witchking will have his hands full with tomb kings. I hear mammoths and skinshifters are especially good this time of year.

[gowb]

Wow! Nice. I'm beginning to see how well smaller armies can do against big ones - just witnessed a Caelum force get its butt handed to it by a Pangaean army half its size. Those dryad hoplites are scary....