Ulm line could be summed up with excerpts from one Conan dialogue: EA "Grom!" MA "I never prayed to you before" LA "then to hell with you!"

@praiseHashut

3 ай бұрын

based and German pilled

Thanks for your videos. I'll never miss living in the city. Vrooooooooooooooooom.

Agree that magic needs to come before overall strategy. (Also it's spelled like that, strategy, not stratagy). What do you usually do with the Vampires? I've started to suspect that HoS spam works a bit worse against higher difficulty AI because they can outspam you, and some of them I don't really get how to use, like the blood 2 "thug" chassis guy with the 2h sword and just blood 2. I'm experimenting with getting him some gear and thugging him but thugging works a bit worse than in MP because the AI always PD dumps... basically requiring SC-tier thugs after the early game.

You are going to be constantly failing expansion early with crossbows nowadays because early you lack critical mass. Hello from Lucids Ulmish gang.

@topguides6991

3 ай бұрын

True true

I'm a filthy casual single player, enjoying the guides, and they're helping me improve and see ideas I never thought of myself. Is there a standalone video on blood hunting on the channel? It's a mechanic I am aware exists, but I never use 'cos it seems super opaque, I followed some of the section on hunting here, but I'm still a bit unclear on exactly how to use it effectively (and or how to apply this to other nations)

@duartemarco

3 ай бұрын

Lucid has a great video on blood hunting.

@topguides6991

3 ай бұрын

Lucids video is great but it's for Dom 5 id still recommend. I'll make a blood hunting guide

@juliang8676

3 ай бұрын

Chazzyburger has a blood hunting guide, its pretty good and short+sweet

@topguides6991

3 ай бұрын

oh sick will check it out@@juliang8676

@Drak976

28 күн бұрын

Blood 2 mage with blood finding stick. It's that easy.

I always thought GotM is battlefield wide 💀💀💀

I like your videos, but dear God, its Cavalry not Calvary. The shorthand is Cav, not Calv.

@topguides6991

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for pointing it out. Feedback helps me improve. I'm glad you've been enjoying my videos

8:14 "if MA Ulm had access to these (Ghoul Guardians) it would be phenomenal" I mean they aren't quite the same but MA Ulm has Guardians (cap only) which has the same weapon they are quite similar and they are indeed great for either dealing with sacreds or when you need magic weapons or big hitters. The issue is of course that they cost twice as much gold (20 gold vs 10 gold) compared to your normal infantry so they are expensive to keep around unless you need them. Ghoul Guardians stats that are better +2 hp, +3 MR, +4 moral, +1 strength, +1 defense -6 encumbrance, 25 poison resistance, 50 darkvision and worse -1 protection, -1 attack (and being vulnerable to anti-undead effects). So Ghoul Guardians are clearly better 1 for 1 but Guardians are cheaper when it comes to recruitment points 31 for Guardian vs 47 for ghoul guardian allowing you to make about 3 Guardians (93) for every 2 Ghoul Guardians (94). So I am not sure it would change much if MA Ulm had access to Ghoul Guardians in addition to having Guardians

@topguides6991

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for writing that out I haven't actually played MA Ulm so I was ignorant of them having the guardian. What an embarrassing mistake.

I think the awake svartelf expander is best because this nation does scale well and probably isn't optimally played as a sacred troop nation. I was using that svartelf but x1 precision, x5 heroism, x2 reinvig, however with the heroism nerf probably liking x2 precision x4 reinvig (not sure how impactful x2 heroism is if we drop x1 reinvig). I suppose the argument for x5 reinvig is shrouds of the battle saint in our communions since thaum spells are 100% accurate generally (and maybe hochmeister thugging). Utilize our nice expansion with the svartelf linnormr into an early war power spike with the nice mage bless (the nice expansion also gets us into early forts and early blood hunting). And we can use the svartelf to site search for us once xpac is over (and craft matrices/dwarven hammers plus summon our vamps). Ghoul guardians and mind burn/paralyze deter enemy elites/sacreds/SCs rushes. I kinda hate that we can't use an imprisoned pretender (gotta have the pretender available to cast sanguine heritage) because a full rainbow scales build with a nice non incarnate cav bless sounds fun to play (like blood surge, undying x5, enchanted blood, maybe even magic weapons for late game). Super cheap bracers of protection for our ghoul commanders sounds like nice in army anti thugs. Can give hochmeisters a mace of eruption and bracers of protection as well for light thugs (although fire gems might be an issue).

@milomindbend

3 ай бұрын

I did not realize iron blizzard is so fatigue heavy! yikes! x5 reinvig and in big battles give the non E2s black priests an earth gem for summon earth power lol

@topguides6991

3 ай бұрын

Fr fr probably still good

The vampires should have all been sacred

@topguides6991

Ай бұрын

Now that would have been spicy sacred immortal vampire

Maybe you should had explained vampire thing a bit more

@topguides6991

3 ай бұрын

Yeah true I probably should have

@tjeisenman4439

3 ай бұрын

please!! @@topguides6991