What a great day! I wake up and find not one, but TWO new Runewars podcast episodes. Christmas has come early.

Runewars - that guy dancing alone in a music festival. Love it! Nice work gentlemen. When i first started playing I always gave my opponent the daqan in the starting scenario as I would rather them win and have a great time. Thats not saying I wouldnt try. Just Kari is a beast haha

19 hours ago, TheWiseGuy said:

Runewars - that guy dancing alone in a music festival. Love it! Nice work gentlemen. When i first started playing I always gave my opponent the daqan in the starting scenario as I would rather them win and have a great time. Thats not saying I wouldnt try. Just Kari is a beast haha

Thanks! It is a tough balance to strike - you want to play well, of course, because you don't want a prospective new player to feel bad about you taking it easy on them, but you don't want to mercilessly crush them, either.

When I am building Daqan, my list starts with Kari with Fortuna's Dice - she's so good.

If you give a newbie an optimized list and run a slightly less optimal one yourself, you can go all out and both get a good experience.

Either remove a key upgrade or two, or a unit.

27 minutes ago, Aetheriac said:

If you give a newbie an optimized list and run a slightly less optimal one yourself, you can go all out and both get a good experience.

Either remove a key upgrade or two, or a unit.

That's the key, I think - both getting a good experience. Removing pieces is a great suggestion, and that could be an interesting conversation - what to remove to make a teaching game more fun. Out of my current army, I would most likely dump Kari and replace her with something...less awesome.

9 minutes ago, FranquesEnbiens said:

That's the key, I think - both getting a good experience. Removing pieces is a great suggestion, and that could be an interesting conversation - what to remove to make a teaching game more fun. Out of my current army, I would most likely dump Kari and replace her with something...less awesome.

Fight overwhelming forces by just removing Kari. It will hone your game and give the newbie a good advantage. Assume you will lose, but play to win.

1 hour ago, FranquesEnbiens said:

Thanks! It is a tough balance to strike - you want to play well, of course, because you don't want a prospective new player to feel bad about you taking it easy on them, but you don't want to mercilessly crush them, either.

When I am building Daqan, my list starts with Kari with Fortuna's Dice - she's so good.

Agreed. It is a fine balance. When done correctly can hook someone on the game haha.

2 minutes ago, Aetheriac said:

Fight overwhelming forces by just removing Kari. It will hone your game and give the newbie a good advantage. Assume you will lose, but play to win.

Excellent point as well - great way to put even more importance on your strategy and approach to the battle!

There is nothing less encouraging to a new player to be absolutely battered on their first game

Most people are fine with losing as long as there is hope for them throughout the game

11 hours ago, Evil Doctor T said:

There is nothing less encouraging to a new player to be absolutely battered on their first game

Most people are fine with losing as long as there is hope for them throughout the game

Don't ever play your first game of anything in Toronto, we are a community that lives for battering and pushing through. I lost every game of Armada, for months, took a month+ to just stop getting tabled every time.

13 hours ago, Darthain said:

Don't ever play your first game of anything in Toronto, we are a community that lives for battering and pushing through. I lost every game of Armada, for months, took a month+ to just stop getting tabled every time.

I take no issue with that

When I started at xwing I was enticed in with some.stsrter games and then had the battering, but I think without those initial starter games it would've been a turn off