Sorry about the late post this week, but our Initiative One bonus episode pushed us over our monthly upload quota. This week's episode will be out July 1st!

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Here it is, better late than never...Episode 16! Ravos' All-You-Can-Eat Crabs! We interview JJ, the winner of our Durham Regional (aka the most prestigious Runewars tournament from June 23rd). Did the Uthuk dominate? Is there any hope for Waiqar and Daqan? Why is our meta so different?

http://initiativeone.libsyn.com/website/episode-16-ravos-crab-shack

Good podcast as always.

Wish I had some players up near Ogden Utah.

Thanks @Sirdrasco! Hope you can get some players rounded up, but if you haven't yet, jump in our Discord - we hope to use it to help people get TTS or Vassal games together, if you play on either of those.

So as I'm listening, I got to the point where you were wondering whether Reanimates have an equipment slot -- I looked up the exact same thing just the other day when I wondered why nobody puts Shield Wall on Reanimates!

It kills me they scheduled Nationals on the same day as a regional tournament. Hopefully I'll get a chance to show you guys the Rune Golem at Worlds!

34 minutes ago, kaffis said:

So as I'm listening, I got to the point where you were wondering whether Reanimates have an equipment slot -- I looked up the exact same thing just the other day when I wondered why nobody puts Shield Wall on Reanimates!

Seems good, doesn't it? Twelve trays seems like enough to guarantee it.

2 minutes ago, Bhelliom said:

It kills me they scheduled Nationals on the same day as a regional tournament. Hopefully I'll get a chance to show you guys the Rune Golem at Worlds!

See you there! We will be bringing zero Rune Golems between us, I am pretty sure.

1 minute ago, FranquesEnbiens said:

Seems good, doesn't it? Twelve trays seems like enough to guarantee it.

Not to mention, 96 damage to kill it seems like it could tarpit even something mean for a while, even without regeneration...

5 minutes ago, kaffis said:

Not to mention, 96 damage to kill it seems like it could tarpit even something mean for a while, even without regeneration...

Just put it on there, see if anyone notices.

I do find it funny that the shield-less Berserkers can use Shield Wall, but the shield-bearing Reanimates cannot.

18 hours ago, FranquesEnbiens said:

Just put it on there, see if anyone notices.

I mean, it's not like Reanimates get run often enough for anybody (including us) to remember their upgrades, anyways...

41 minutes ago, kaffis said:

I mean, it's not like Reanimates get run often enough for anybody (including us) to remember their upgrades, anyways...

So different. Here, the local Waiqar meta is pretty much "Ankaur Maro figure upgrade in a 6-tray Reanimate block". True, we step out to try new things, but most Waiqar lists seem to be heavy on infantry. I suspect with Wraiths that's going to change as people have a wider variety of non-infantry units to bring. Also, Waiqar has been the dominant faction, but it looks like the Daqan players are coming back, and some new people are picking up Latari and Uthuk. By the end of the summer, it's going to be a whole new ball game!

15 hours ago, Budgernaut said:

I do find it funny that the shield-less Berserkers can use Shield Wall, but the shield-bearing Reanimates cannot.

Even better, Reanimate Archers can use Shield Wall, and Reanimates can't.

I mean, it's not like Reanimates get run often enough for anybody (including us) to remember their upgrades, anyways...

Bizarre. I run reanimates constantly to varying degrees of success.

There is one local player here who runs Reanimates regularly, and sometimes we get players at our tournaments who bring them, but they are not very common here.