The MA Ulm issue.

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Folket said:
I did my own tests with Ulmish infantry against Principes. 40 units on each side. First Pythium attack and lost 19 units while Ulm lost 2. In the second battle Ulm attack and lost 9 units while Pythium lost 36. Both battles was in neutral dominion.

The Infantry of Ulm costs 24 resources while principes cost 21 resources. Given that Ulm have a resource bonus and principes costs 15 gold I find the battle fair if not a little edge to principes given that thay had 50% more gold in the field.

Ulm allready have a national spell that increase resistance to thier troops. That should be enough to counter thier low MR.

In general Ulm have very potent infantry and I guess that whoever tried these battles earlier only tried the black plate variaty who I consider are just inferior to the ordinary infantry of Ulm.

Yeah, I used the Black Plate Infantry, since most complaints seemed to be directed towards them and it seemed inituative that more res.cost = more power. By the way, what weapons did your Infatry use? (I'm guessing the 2-h flails, they're very nice against high def-troops).

It really doesn't seem right to have Blacksteels suck when compared to the regular infantry (especially against elite troops like Priciples, what use are your national elites if they can't smack around other elites?). Sure, they probably can smack around low-def, low-damage troops better, but so can everything worth its salt in battle. Almost every nation gets heavy infantry (Ulm just has more options on armament), but only Ulm gets Blacksteels. They should be something special. I'm still in favor of giving them some training bonuses. I mean Ulm really can't supply Blacksteel Armors to some basic run-of-the-mill soldier who just requests for them?