Effective army for Machaka

[Huzurdaddi]

You need either mages or serious summons.

It's gotten to that stage in the game. Without either you are going to get beaten every major battle.

I wish I had seen the battle I could give you better advice. Not like I'm the source of all knowledge about this game, that's Norfleet! I kind of suck!

[SelfishGene]

Ive had some experience with Machaka in PBeM, though as it was my first, and after only a couple days of owning the game, probably my least successful .

Ulm is pretty weak to magic. Some ideas:

-Swarm. Cheap, Lasts 2-3 rounds, a good way to soak up enemy fire/lances. Little bugs tend to kill themselves when they get repelled, so it wears itself out quickly.

-Blindness. Not a bad choice against Ulmish Cavalry. Also cheap, easy to research, works well with 80 gold Doctors.

-Fire Archers. For some reason ive never tested fire arrows, even in single player. My comments here would be that Archers are extremely vulnerable to Blade Winds, which Ulm has no trouble casting in large amounts. Even Machakan Hoplites get smacked down hard by Blade Winds.

-Destruction. Earth 3 armor defeating spell. Hard to get unless you have Ainra or a Earth Pretender, and somewhat random in its targeting, esp., if the enemy has spread his formations out.

-Seven Year fever can disease his army if you dispair of killing it outright.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by SelfishGene:
-Blindness. Not a bad choice against Ulmish Cavalry. Also cheap, easy to research, works well with 80 gold Doctors.

No need to research it, it's one of Machaka's starting spells.

Even Machakan Hoplites get smacked down hard by Blade Winds.

Not once they have 24 protection from a casting of mass protection they won't.

-Destruction. Earth 3 armor defeating spell. Hard to get unless you have Ainra or a Earth Pretender, and somewhat random in its targeting, esp., if the enemy has spread his formations out.

Machaka has earth 2 on the black sorcerors, so there's no problem there.