Defeating Ulm

[The Panther]

The best way to take the knights down is with spells:

Astral: Go up Thaumaturgy for mind burn, paralyze, soul slay, and enslave mind.

Air, Water, or Fire: Evocation battle spells

Nature: Most nature spells are defensive in nature, but Swarm (alteration 4) is cool for killing strong, non-flying troops. It's biggest problem is the 1 gem cost.

The other schools have their good stuff too.

Infantry backed by mages is a good matchup against the black knights and archers. In fact, when the knights engage the infantry, the Ulm Smiths and archers will target the melee, hurting the large knights as much as they do the small infantry. Crossbowmen, with their armor piercing arrows is very good against knights, if you can get them.

Forget using archers only. The knights will easily survive the rain of arrows and cross the battlefield quickly.

Also, make sure you don't bunch your infantry in the middle and let any knights on the flank with the attack rear command go straight to your mages.

[Jarkko]

And to take another look: How can Ulm best defend against magic?

[deccan]

Jarkko said:
And to take another look: How can Ulm best defend against magic?

I'm tempted to say: you don't. You kill them before they research the killer spells. But maybe some other Ulm veteran can do better.

[Tuna]

By basing on thugs, or small sc's, that use cheap forged equipment.

Oh, and the iron faith theme is the best ulm theme.