Understanding D2 strategy - help!

[Calistas]

Er, Zen, what are hammers?

I tried working with the Ulm setup you suggested, it was quite fun and my guy ended up semi-rainbow and did a great job of churning out the gem sites.

I guess those gems can be used to summon rubbish to help with Ulm's weak magic stuff as you suggested?

Cal

[Alneyan]

Calistas said:
Er, Zen, what are hammers?
Cal

The hammers are the Dwarven Hammers, which give you a Forge Bonus of 25%. It effectively means forging is 25% cheaper as before, and will stack with the same bonus of your Master Smiths (making it a 50% forging bonus, so all magic items will be half as expensive as before).

The Dwarven Hammer requires Construction 2 and Earth 3, for a cost of 20 earth gems.

[Calistas]

Ahhh, thanks a lot
So get great items, tool up your summons and whatnot and send them out with the boys? That the strategy? Sounds fun

Cal

[Calistas]

Hmm just had a good game with that setup. Ended up with provinces with sorcerers and enchantresses and witches so quickly was able to 'call wild' and summon ... green flappy things They complimented the slower Ulm troops nicely and I got those hammer and some earth boots going and after a little empowerment one of my smiths was on 6 earth, not bad!

Cal