Halt Heretic - Opinions

[Ylvali]

Oh, I wouldn�t say that. I�ve had some great times with ulm.

[Zeldor]

Hehe, in SP I guess

[Tuidjy]

Once upon the time, I challenged people to duels to show them how utterly
worthless Ulm is. Later, I wrote long posts explaining why Ulm's troops suck,
and backed them up with probabilities. Even more recently, I ran battles in which
Ulm mighty and finely equipped warriors were whipped by non-sacred, build anywhere
troops like principles, men at arms and defenders.

And still, there are those who chime in with 'Oh, Ulm is not so bad'.

So I have decided not to engage in rational discussion anymore. My answer now is
'Shut up you newbie, you have no idea what you are talking about'.

[Twan]

I've already seen Ulm winning in MP, it just need an awake great sage to avoid to lose the magic race, some luck for starting position -not being rushed by a neighbour- and not too strong indies (indie 9 or maps like WoG are not good for Ulm).

As your troops are tough you don't need many summons, so you can keep your gems for some globals and/or forge boosters for all your battlefield mages (once you have the level for magma eruption it's sad to continue to cast magma bolts).

The only big ulmish problem is how slow the infantry is. Instead of any other boost I would have given mapmove 2 to all troops without black plate.

[Ballbarian]

Ulm may not have a chance in multiplayer against experienced players, but it is still one of my absolute favorites.

[Twan]

Ballbarian said:
Ulm may not have a chance in multiplayer against experienced players

It's nothing but a legend. If you look in the MP hall of fame you'll see 2 ME Ulm victories, and as I doubt that Wraithlord and CKUnknow play in newbie games it was probably in games with (at least some) experienced players.

There was also an uncounted victory of Ulm in one of the first dom3 games -ended by a bug when Ulm was first in gems and research with 4 or 5 globals up- so weak or not in theory, ME Ulm is only beaten by two or three nations for the number of (not duel) real games won (here, but I think it's the place where you find most experienced players).

Unbelievable isn't it ? (as well as Arco still having 0 victory)

[coobe]

i second that Ulm is viable in MP, Now with the new stuff in the patch i think even more

You just have to play them differently like any race in dom3

[llamabeast]

What's this "Bane of Heresy" thing then?