Shadow's Top Five! - How To Play Emperor Shaddam IV

Welcome to Top Five Tips, where we take a topic from Dune Imperium and and give you our top 5 tips on it! Today, Shadow looks at Emperor Shaddam from Dune Imperium: Uprising! His position of power means House Corrino cannot be seen to be involved in affairs directly, but they are backed by the powerful Sardukar. This is a new series and if well received, more content can follow!
00:00 Intro
00:27 Tip 1 - Overview
01:46 Tip 2 - Passive
05:41 Tip 3 - Ring
10:19 Tip 4 - Seat Positions
11:48 Tip 5 - Wildcard Tips
14:14 Wrap-Up
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[@reversereverse7349]

Thematically, I love how Emperor doesn’t want to get his hands dirty in the battles themselves.

[@BlackShadow993]

Agreed, it's a nice folding of theme and mechanic.

[@ricktrolled4507]

the Christopher Walken joke got me 🤣 🤣🤣🤣

[@Niru529]

Great insights. From your perspective what does a road to swordmaster look like for shaddam. You wanna get 2 waters and get the spice from deep to got to shipping. Then you used the actions and got 2 solari. How do procede from there? Do you try do go to spice refinery? Win a solari combat which might be difficult as you stated? Thx!

[@BlackShadow993]

Whatever means you can think of, early combat cash, a contract completion, Shipping again. There's a few different routes.

[@nicholasthoelke4768]

occasionally as shaddam i won't buy the bump taking the ring to shipping early on as the 6 solari is good for both high council and sm

[@BlackShadow993]

@@nicholasthoelke4768 Sometimes it's not needed but I think if it gets you the Spacing 4th bump, you're getting the 3 solari back right?

[@Yiazmats]

man I've been kinda put off with the worms in uprising, but I'd like to play some shaddam, he seems interesting

[@hidden-assets]

Hey, I feel ya. I've been there. For about a month I was not sure if I liked Worms at all. I've come around to them, but it was not love at first sight.

[@JesterJayJoker]

I was to make sure I'm understanding his ring. If I put troops out before I use the ring, can you get them in that way? When it says this turn, does it mean the turn I'm playing a card or turn of the conflict?

[@BlackShadow993]

Yes, you can use intrigues for example to deploy before using any agent action, so the ring doesn't yet do anything, nor does it apply retroactively.

[@viesturskokarevics2427]

Lady J will be hard in 15 min

[@BlackShadow993]

I think I did a decent entry level video for her but yeah, tough to do.