Patch Improvements

[FrankTrollman]

The nation is horribly weak without some way to put armour on its vampire counts, and even then, is only middingly powerful. It needs earth mages.

It's pretty minimal as is. The Black Priests are capital only and old. And the benefit for being an inquisitor is proportionately less than it was in Dominions 2. They really got boned. They need their random pick back. A 100% chance of getting an Earth, an Astral, or a Nature wouldn't change the overall magical capabilities of the nation, but would do wonders for their ability to get things done.

For a team so dependent upon site finding spells, it's a travesty that noone in the empire can cast Gnome Lore. Even a 1/3 chance of getting a Gnome Lorer would set them to right to an amazing degree.

-Frank

[Twan]

A little thing very useful for MP games :

The ability to see the list of messages you are sending by clicking on "messages sent" (especially the number of gems and gold sent and identity of recievers). If you make many exchanges in a turn in a slow paced game, not having this possibility may be really annoying.

(ps : I wasn't a big mp player in dom 2 so I don't know if there is a shortcut or any way to see sent messages, if there is one it's not in the shortcut list)

[Gandalf Parker]

Ulm, Black Forest
I think that a hodgepodge is the result of any nation making it to Late Age. It almost seems to the be definition of late age.

As for the ranking of its abilities, I note that they are being done by people who tend to play large-army. No mention of the stealth at all. Ulm BF is setup rather well for using stealth armies in the field while keeping its non-stealth units closer to home defensively. Any ranking of its abilities without taking note of such things amounts to a personal play opinion Im thinking.

Altho I do feel it that could benefit from a stealth priest.

Gandalf Parker

[Graeme Dice]

No, I am definetly including the stealth when I discuss black forest Ulm, as the rangers are just about the only unit that's worth producing. Everything else is no better, or actually worse, than the mediocre troops of middle age Ulm.