Dune Imperium: Digital Ranked | Cheesable Expedites his Opponents into the Shadows

[@Th3120ck]

Man that conflict 6-7 planning really came out of nowhere. Not a lot of players will even know that move is possible.

[@cheesable]

Reasons why expedite is so powerful. But forward planning is really quite important. And quite easy to do in DID cause the ui is so clean

[@pedrorondelli8218]

Man.. This last play with expedite and in the shadows was insane!! Congrats

[@cheesable]

First time seeing it will blow your mind, but once you recognise the play pattern, it is quite easy to replicate

[@ratpongkraiwiwat5988]

Great game. Regarding voice, I think text is great, maybe just edit voice in after the game because, like you said, it requires too much focus talking while playing.

[@cheesable]

I think it's okay now. I just needed to get used to the system and tbh a bit to ix as well

[@dennisbabych]

@@cheesable by the way regarding text to voice you can use 11 labs ;)

[@cheesable]

I did consider this

[@chrisroberts7159]

I prefer voice because I like to be able to tab switch away and listen while working

[@adamek0020]

Nice game. Round 7 was perfect. The only beef I have is with round 5. Mentat is a great action with Ilban, however it gave you a net worth of 1 card, which is about equivalent to 2 solari or 1 spice. So I don't think you ignoring all that spice - twice! - was the correct decision. Look at it this way: you grab either spice first, then you diplo into the top Emperor spot instead of the bottom one. You effectively switched from 1 mentat draw action to "get 2 extra troops, 3 extra solari (comparing to alternative bottom action) and 1 extra intrigue. You can mentat or high council next round. You compressed your Carthag action and added a bit on top of that, so you can do something else instead - or still go Carthag for even more troops and intrigue. Or maybe people still sleep on your mentat, which means free resources at no cost. Tessia player dropped the ball a bit imho.

[@cheesable]

Tessia player is rated quite high actually. I think mentat there didn't look good based on what I drew. But I did need it to setup for the eventual big shipping turn. Perhaps spice is right

[@adamek0020]

@@cheesable Yeah, I've seen him in your games, I'm not saying he is bad in general, I just think he didn't navigate this particular game very well. Regardless, nice content, hope to play you at some point, once my ranked stops crashing.

[@simonb4689]

This is great content, only thing that would be better would be with voice over instead of text. Keep it coming? Thanks

[@cheesable]

It will come. My second game I did a full voice over. I realised when I talked and played, I played too slowly. Ai took over, dumped my intrigues, lost the game. So was planning to get more reps in before I can full commentate and play at a high level

[@simonb4689]

@@cheesable yeah that sounds rough. And doing the voice over after as you edit the video is to much trouble?

[@cheesable]

I could comment it in post, it is an option. I'll consider it

[@Th3120ck]

Yeah, I agree with commenting in post. Your analysis is such high level, it's awesome. Currently, I have to pause/unpause to fully understand all your considerations. Going 1x speed with voice will appeal to a much bigger audience.

[@simonb4689]

@@Th3120ck agreed 100%

[@snister3k]

enjoying watching those high level games! as a feedback, your commentary is obscured by the youtube overlay. maybe you could consider putting it to the top of the screen. other then that

[@cheesable]

Thanks. This feedback is really useful!

[@dennisbabych]

Amazing game bro!

[@cheesable]

Thank you 👍 Have a soft spot for Ilban

[@minhlong3018]

Great game! It seems like base game / ix basic strategy is to rush Sword Master above all else? Are there other lines we can take i.e that doesn’t involve Sword Master?

[@cheesable]

Actually swordmaster first is the 2nd best thing you can do. I'll have a strategy video up in two days about this!

[@krystiansakowski443]

@@cheesable awesome, looking forward to it!

[@26polpol]

Regarding playing diplo instead of seek allies: I do agree its generally correct if you're getting early swordmaster, except when there's a good card in the imperium row. In this case if you played seek allies you would have been able to buy spice hunter round 1. I would argue having a spice hunter in your deck is better than having a seek allies in your deck.

[@cheesable]

I rate spice hunters pretty poorly as a card. I don't think I'm missing out on much

[@evskimojo]

@@cheesable Do you think that getting an early Liason would also be fine here? Just in terms of smoothing your early buys.

[@cheesable]

Not significant over having extra faction in deck

[@chrisroberts7159]

Can you explain why playing Diplomacy over Seek Allies makes sense? You want to preserve faction access density over trashing a card with no persuasion?

[@cheesable]

You generally want to play diplomacy over seek when you have a path to swordmaster Because swordmaster makes your faction access alot better Else, you need to weigh if the one persuasion matters

[@Th3120ck]

How are you able to look up the elo/ranking of the players?

[@cheesable]

Manually