The Diplomacy Timing Window E4: The Titans of Ul

"The Diplomacy Timing Window" is a podcast that features 3 members of the Twilight Wars community: Hungry Hippos, Kazadoom and The Half Heard.
In this video, they discuss The Titans of Ul, a new faction in the Prophecy of Kings expansion.
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[@julwest5777]

played them first time at our last game and won ... love the Titans and will keep playing them when i get the chance

[@itzikgutzcha4779]

3:49 "[scanlink] basically gives you a free PDS on activation of a system where you have a unit"...
Unfortionaly this doesn't work. Since you don't have a sleeper token when you are activating the system. You end up with a sleeper token there, thanks to the scanlink and exploration, but you cannot replace that token with a PDS.
Awaken
- Only sleeper tokens present in the system when it is activated may be replaced with PDS.
- A sleeper token that is placed during the Activation step, most commonly by using the Scanlink Drone Network technology and the Terragenesis ability, cannot be replaced via the Awaken ability during the same tactical action.

[@itzikgutzcha4779]

Also, Ouranos can replace a PDS only if it was already there when the system was activated, so you can't use "awaken" to replace a sleeper token with a PDS and then immediately replace the PDS with the mother ship.

[@jbrown2099]

I'll be playing these guys for the first time in a couple weeks so I've been researching like crazy.
If I've found any weakness, it seems to be an extremely high demand for command counters due to so many activations. I'll be hoping for leadership to be available often!

[@sz_nandor]

You have the timing window wrong with activation-exploration-sleeper token, because awakeaning happens WHEN you active, so by this logic you can get a "free" pds with every second activation

[@mehazc]

I recommend trying to sell terraform for speaker and taking leadership at least twice. It depends on your slide but ccs are a definite drain
Also you can xd someone round 1 with a g/r skip and diplo/tech in the right order

[@jessedavidcochrane]

Titan’s 2 big weaknesses are a total dependency on command counters and now way to produce them outside of leadership and Hyper metabolism. Their low influence makes leadership secondary lacking and optimal strategy requires skipping politics so they tend to become default targets for negatively impacting laws with limited ability to protect against it.

[@wallpello_1534]

I think the podcast needs more wierd 90s references!

[@kurtdumbass]

Blame the Halfheard.