RANKED #3: Baron is THIRSTY! Dune Imperium Digital Live Play 48 

Grats on the win and the 100 viewers. The sleeper was awoken!

Just started watching and those 2 early intrigues are *chefkisses*

notice that, in mid game when you grid the draw and draw the foldspace, so you couldn't have spice must flow, you bought that clutch treachery instead!!! sometimes a bad thing turns out to be a blessing!

I love how your face matches with Barons body on the endscreen. Spice transformed you quite a lot my friend!

congratz again :)

Did you pick the leader without looking at techs again? Youve gotta play to win the game!

It feels like your early game lacks a plan a little bit and I think that plan should usually be (a) get Swordmaster asap or (b) get a lot of shipping done. For example your masterstroke seemed a bit random. You're putting in 4 troops for an intrigue and some spice, as well as an influence point with Fremen (where you already had 2 points, so it's not super valuable at that point) and Guild (where you had 0). At that point, Red went Shipping. Next turn, Red will go shipping again and you can hopefully Foldspace. Turn 4, you can go Shipping, but then on turns 5, 6, and 7, Red will be able to get Shipping before you, so it's not really that valuable.

I get bad draws/hands like that fold space all the time in Imperium. I think it's pretty standard for computer games to be rigged for various reasons today. For example, people have discussed how Hearthstone is rigged for overall balance in match-ups in order to maximize the number of people who buy more cards hoping to gain advantage that way. I myself have seen in Hearthstone just too high a proportion of matches where one deck is the perfect foil of another (and even the card drawing within those matches are ridiculously timed) versus those where they are not to expect they're not rigged. But I also see the same thing in Star Realms, et c.. If it's occurring in Dune Imperium, I assume the balancing could be to minimize the number of players who stop playing online.