Forge of Ulm

[Valerius]

Originally Posted by Mightypeon

Iron fears not has AoE one, and priests that are using them do not spam iron Blizzard, I am not sure that spamming indie priest to get it is very viable either.

AOE 2 and it scales so a black priest will cover 4 squares at a casting. Especially early in the game when armies are smaller a single black priest might be all you need to buff each army. By the time you reach iron blizzard I don't think it's a problem since you may well be using the enchantment elemental resistance spells. Just a matter of the timing being a bit early IMO.

Originally Posted by Mightypeon

And only 20% of Ulms mages can cast weapons of sharpness too

Right, that's why you'd need either gems or earth boots. Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not claiming smiths are anything like the kind of late game army buffers Pans are but they're not totally useless.