[Squirrelloid]

MA Ulm is an expert's only nation, and then only for masochists. I could not in good faith recommend any beginner play it.

A beginner has no way to judge, for example, the advantages of a hammer to a flail. Ulm's infantry is *complicated*. (And bad. Very very bad.) TBH, my best results were recruiting nothing but black knights and guardians... And even then your unit performance is lackluster... and units are all you have going for you!

Oh yeah, and a nation where you have to spell out deployment is your first sign that beginners shouldn't play it.

Also, Drain is a suckers choice. Especially without an awake Great Sage to kick start your research. Sure, it probably works to take Dr3 against the AI, because the AI is bad, and you can beat them with just about anything (for instance, MA Ulm).

The only sane strategy for MA Ulm in vanilla is bloodstone factory into petrify spam after an evocation opening (bladewind/ironblizzard/magma eruption). This is not something you want a beginner doing. They have no useable strategy in CBM.