Lord of Ultima: Overall Strategies

There are two main overall strategies for Lord of Ultima:

1. The traditional resource city build to support your few castles. There is a large ratio of resource cities to military cities.
2. Military cities (castles preferably) with food city support that raid dungeons for resources. You build resource cities at the start of the game to get your military cities going. When you get to the middle/end game, you stop building resource cities, and only build military and food cities. There is a large ratio of military cities to resource cities.

Strategy #1, the resource city build, is extremely popular. You can tell this from the huge number of complaints when the Ascension patch changed how resource nodes worked. There were complaints from not only new players but high-end/experienced players. For me, the resource node change had little to no impact at all.

I am a big proponent of strategy #2, the military city build. The advantages are:

• The resource generation from military city dungeon farming can yield a lot more then resource cities. The Ascension research improvements (unit travel speed and unit combat strength) makes military city farming even more lucrative.
• It gives you more overall military to call on, and in the end game, military power is king.

The disadvantages are:

• You do need to buy the War Minister so your dungeon raids run 24x7. Not a bad thing anyhow in my opinion.
• It takes a lot more work as you have to check more, ie, recruit replacement troops, set up new raids after dungeon abandonment, etc. You can't just build and forget like you do for resource cities.
• You need continent control to make this strategy effective as castled military cities provide a lot more TS per city and thus, can farm more.

If you do have the time and energy, I encourage you to try the military city strategy. If executed well, it is a vastly superior strategy, yielding tremendously more resources. A lot of people are surprised at how much you can get from dungeon raids.

I am on world #9 and here are some relevant rankings to prove my point. As you can see from the following screen shots, the military city strategy works!

In order to allow me to achieve such, my alliance (The Dark Ministry) established continent control on 31 first, then 21:

• 31 is where most of us started, and this was done diplomatically by merging all the other small alliances into us.
• On 21, we killed every enemy castle and took control of the continent via force.

• Lord of Ultima is an online web browser based strategy game. More information can be found at my Lord of Ultima Coverage page.
• If you wish to jump straight in, you can sign up at http://www.lordofultima.com/en/ref/2300431315.
• As best described by the creators of the game:
  "Lord of Ultima is EA’s first game in the free Strategy MMO genre and is completely playable in a web browser. Developed by EA’s Phenomic studio, the game’s creator Volker Wertich (the genius behind strategy classics such as the Settlers) takes this genre to the next level. Lord of Ultima features deep strategic gameplay and multiple social features including an advanced trading system, alliance features, online chat, and forums. At launch it will be available in English and German language.
  
  
  Set in the legendary Ultima universe, the game takes you to the new world of Caledonia, formed from the remains of Sosaria which was shattered into countless islands. You start your journey with a humble village which you grow over time into a mighty and prosperous capital. On your path to glory you will have to expand your power by creating additional cities, exploring new continents and forging a vast empire. You must master the art of diplomacy and trade as well as the military activities of spying, plundering, attacking and sieging enemy cities to finally become the mighty and feared Lord of Ultima."