The MA Ulm issue.

[Velusion]

Baalz said:
6) Ulm managing to get the FOTA up is just scary. Lightless lanterns, forgable by every one of your smiths cost just 1 fire gem apiece - crap 50 of them out the turn the forge goes up and you've made back your investment even if it's immediately dispelled. Manage to keep it up and fire brands, shields of beaten gold - 1f 1e. Amulet of Antimagic, luck pendants, rings of fire/lighting all one gem. Who cares if your black knights aren't invincible, at these prices they're expendable! Use that trade income you've got to crap out golems, use the quarter price blood stones your minting to crap out mechanical men and iron dragons playing linebacker for a hoard of phoenix rod wielding scouts and 5e righteous combat mages.

Well you could argue that forge is actually less useful to ulm because they are actually saving less gems off of the global than another nation would....