Anyone played the Ulm Black Forest in MP ?

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I recently played BF ulm in my nightly 3way multi game. Expansion is extremely rapid, using 2 or 3 pikeneers + 20 or so rangers, I had 3 conquering armies out soon (the first one fizzled once its infantry support died as it only had 12 rangers) and by turn 11 I had 16 or 17 provinces conquered. I had my first VC on turn 8, however I choose a vamp queen for my pretender. Im not sure I used my VC's correctly but to be honest they did not seem very powerful. With the fountain of blood, do people hunt in their home province or do they somehow teleport the fountain somewhere else? I can see that using the fountain in your home province must really cramp early expansion via rangers so I dunno if the fountain is really worth it.

I churned out 3 VC's by turn 14 I think and from then on all new VC's blood hunted. In anycase, the only thing that saved me from my Ctis neighbor to the south were my rangers. The VC's were fragile in the extreme even with barkskin luck and a horror helm.

Secondly, as far as I can tell BF Ulm has horrible infantry. Low morale on your living units means they route if someone so much as passes wind in their general direction. Mixing thralls and ghouls in with your living troops bolsters their morale, but a few turns into combat with more than a couple priests and those undead are all but wiped out.

I was essentially relying soley on rangers with whatever fodder infantry I could plant in front with VC's holding as long as possible before attacking rear.