[Ferrosol]

the problem with EA Ulm is that your chance of getting a 2 in the elemental paths except E is damn near impossible. I must have recruited in total about 100 Smiths in my last game and did not get a single A2 and only about 2 F2s. So relying on your smiths for battle magic is a chancy thing. Also your pitiful MR makes you horribly vulnerable to things that target MR so armies are out after the early game. Generally I would go with a Rainbow/scales build perhaps a great sage so you can begin churning out thugs and using your smiths to equip them as that is your only chance at surviving through the mid game. Even then though you are pretty crippled due to your lack of Astral and Death magic (yeah you can get D2 once in a blue moon on your Shamans but that is it.)