Suggestions to the devs: improving ME Ulm

[Sandman]

Ulm needs more trickery up its sleeve. Assassins and a stealthy preacher, for example, making it the equal of Marignon in that department (it was originally supposed to be a counterpart to Marignon anyway). And reduce the old age on Master Smiths; they're a 'young kingdom'.

[Gandalf Parker]

I could see assassin and stealth preacher. It seems to me that Ulm is supposed to be fairly non-magical, and rely on armor/weapons but those two things might fit in.

[TomD]

I don't see an assasin as very fitting. I've always read Ulm as not believing in all the corrupt politicing of some of the other human nations. An Ulmish noble would surely prefer to bash in his enemies head personally than pay for some sneaky low-life to do it.

And surely ME Ulm is stronger now than before, what with the new focus on armies rather than magic/SCs?

[Reverend Zombie]

TomD said:
I don't see an assasin as very fitting. I've always read Ulm as not believing in all the corrupt politicing of some of the other human nations. An Ulmish noble would surely prefer to bash in his enemies head personally than pay for some sneaky low-life to do it.

Give the stealth/assasin ability to all Ulmish leaders and think of it less as an assassination than a challenge to a one-on-one duel: "the Ulmish hero crosses the enemy lines under flag of truce to challenge their leader to a trial by might..."

[TomD]

Good idea, that works for me. And bodyguards just show that you can't trust foreign scum.

Of course a Black Lord (I think that's the name, the commander version of the Black Knight) would be an awesome assasin even without items. It probably needs a nerf somewhere to make it balanced.

[BigJMoney]

Ulm got rid of its stealthiness in EA to embrace the fielding of horses. I particlarly think a national forge item would make Ulm complete. Then again, I suppose this isn't something the Doms 3 system is built to support.

On another note, Sorlakind's best point is that a monthly construct command is sorely lacking from the game. It's rather surprising there is monthly spell-casting and not monthly forging.

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[olaf73]

Yeah we need monthly forgings.