Initiative One Episode 7: Hook 'em Horns is here! We talk store champs: what have we seen so far, what lists have been winning, and why we aren't seeing any Daqan winners. Also, what is up with Bull Pennon in San Antonio? The episode wraps up with some tournament tips from us, and somewhere in there we issue a challenge to Texas.

The winners and their lists that we have so far are compiled here:https://docs.google.com/…/1aw2L67UukEfKuQRQpsMhFBr5Gd…/edit…

And don't forget, we'll be streaming our store champs on our Twitch starting at 11:00am Eastern US time this coming Saturday, 2/24. https://www.twitch.tv/initiativeone

I think the Deathcaller + Support Carrion Lancer + Simultaneous Orders combo on a block of Reanimates is an anti-Latari meta call. Sure, it can hurt other heroes, too, like Kari Wraithstalker, but your Reanimate Arhcers can at least lock her down with blight. Aliana of Summersong with Ambush Predator cannot be targeted by ranged attacks...but Deathcaller isn't a ranged attack, giving Waiqar some much needed counter play when facing the Latari Elves, especially Aliana. I'm willing to bet that nobody in the UK tournaments was running Deathcaller in their Waiqar armies, allowing the Latari Elves to reign supreme. Of course, this is just theoretical because I don't know what the matchups actually were.

Another great episode, guys.

"I would say YOLO, but I've already proven that's not true."

Thank you for another good episode. I wish I could come down to NC just to have you guys autograph Reanimate cards. LOL

It was a great episode guys. That was my Waiqar list and I can confirm that I put that combo in especially for Aliana. It does work good for deleting cavalry trays as well though.

If anyone is interested my matchups were Rd1 Latari 10-1, Rd 2 Daqan 10-1 and Rd 3 Uthuk 7-4. Btw Reanimates rule! If you guys get up to Oneonta anytime stop in. We would love to get some games in.

6 hours ago, Parakitor said:

I think the Deathcaller + Support Carrion Lancer + Simultaneous Orders combo on a block of Reanimates is an anti-Latari meta call. Sure, it can hurt other heroes, too, like Kari Wraithstalker, but your Reanimate Arhcers can at least lock her down with blight. Aliana of Summersong with Ambush Predator cannot be targeted by ranged attacks...but Deathcaller isn't a ranged attack, giving Waiqar some much needed counter play when facing the Latari Elves, especially Aliana. I'm willing to bet that nobody in the UK tournaments was running Deathcaller in their Waiqar armies, allowing the Latari Elves to reign supreme. Of course, this is just theoretical because I don't know what the matchups actually were.

Another great episode, guys.

"I would say YOLO, but I've already proven that's not true."

I find it very effective vs. Daqan, then Latari, then Waiqar. It's okay vs Uthuk, but it's played very differently.

Being able to remove trays from Oathsworn with Deathcaller can be very nasty, especially if they've brought Hawthorne shenanigans.

Another excellent episode!

Guys, can you at some point make an entire episode on Deployment strategies? Like 4 hours of "DO THIS, DUMMY" and "DON'T DO THAT YOU FOOL!" would do. I need to be saved from myself and my terribad deployment.

11 hours ago, Parakitor said:

I think the Deathcaller + Support Carrion Lancer + Simultaneous Orders combo on a block of Reanimates is an anti-Latari meta call. Sure, it can hurt other heroes, too, like Kari Wraithstalker, but your Reanimate Arhcers can at least lock her down with blight. Aliana of Summersong with Ambush Predator cannot be targeted by ranged attacks...but Deathcaller isn't a ranged attack, giving Waiqar some much needed counter play when facing the Latari Elves, especially Aliana. I'm willing to bet that nobody in the UK tournaments was running Deathcaller in their Waiqar armies, allowing the Latari Elves to reign supreme. Of course, this is just theoretical because I don't know what the matchups actually were.

Another great episode, guys.

"I would say YOLO, but I've already proven that's not true."

I'm actually adopting this tactic to deal with Aliana and ambush predator myself as you say Deathcaller and Carrion Lancer skills are not classed as ranged attacks, which always seems to annoy Latari players .

I didn't run it in my UK tournament, but I still won it with Waiqar! I was mainly using Raven-Standard bearer archers to blight their archers whilst Death Knights killed everything else. They're screaming for the Darnati warriors to be released so they have more melee options.

However, one of the players in my meta is starting to use Aliana well now and when I play games against him I find it sooo annoying! hah. I sense he will start to use her more in the upcoming event we have at the store, which is when I started trying to plan a counter for it.

But anyway! Was a great episode, enjoyed hearing about the different lists. Hopefully I'll be able to catch the stream also! (Time Difference!)

Thanks for the listens and feedback everyone!

@Parakitor I looked in to the data we have, and no, I did not see any instances of Deathcaller in the Waiqar lists. Would be interesting to see how Latari fared with that strategy in play.

@darkjawa103 Send me a message here or on Facebook @InitiativeOne with your address - we'll hook you up!

@rebellightworks Thanks for sharing your success with it!

@Polda That's a great suggestion, I am putting it on our list for a future episode.

@Zaaik Thanks, hope you can join us for the stream. Let us know how it goes at your next tournament!

We are going to keep the Google doc (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aw2L67UukEfKuQRQpsMhFBr5GdRxS-YJgMfBmY5Yf3A/edit?usp=sharing) updated with store champs winners as we find them. Keep posting them or sending them to us (https://www.facebook.com/InitiativeOnePodcast/) and thanks!

San Antonio's KW winner would be me, though I'm a fan of "unknown" as my new moniker.