883 - KOW Academy 3 - Deployment Fundamentals

Welcome to Season 1, Episode 3 of Kings of War Academy!This series covers important gameplay topics to help level-up your Kings of War experience. We invite top performing players to get diverse perspectives on topics ranging from unit selection to deployment to how to deal with setbacks!In this episode, we’re joined by Adam Ballard and Marcelo Rouco to discuss all things deployment! Terrain, scenario, play styles, and army composition all impact deployment. And each of these topics is drilled into by these two top players (plus Trent). Pay close attention to hear what Marcelo’s golden rule of deployment is.

2-Threat Projection and Board ControlWelcome to Season 1, Episode 2 of Kings of War Academy! This series covers important gameplay topics to help level-up your Kings of War experience. We invite top performing players to get diverse perspectives on topics ranging from unit selection to deployment to how to deal with setbacks!In this episode, we’re joined by Jason Birr and Keith Conroy to discuss threat projection and board control. The conversation involves how to use threat projection to your advantage while minimizing your opponent’s threat projection. You don’t want to miss this one!

Welcome to Season 1, Episode 1 of Kings of War Academy! This series covers important gameplay topics to help level-up your Kings of War experience. We invite top performing players to get diverse perspectives on topics ranging from unit selection to deployment to how to deal with setbacks!In this episode, we’re joined by Corey Reynolds and Andy Patton to breakdown various unit roles and why you would add certain units to your army list.A ton of terms and definitions were pulled from Honest 4s. Their work made this episode possible so check out their page here: https://honest4s.com/posts/kings-terminology/

2026 US Masters player Sam Kula joins us in the List Builder Studio.Sam’s Nature List

We’re back with our August Fireside Chat

Terry Erickson joins us to chat about his upcoming event Rocks and Cows!Rocks and Cows Event Pack

2026 US Master Sean Troy joins us in the List Builder Studio.Sean's Lady of the Lake Nature List

Trent, Donny and Rob get together to share some tips to painting armies faster! The Great Wargaming SurveyArmies & Legions & Hordes by Dave Taylor

Trent and Rob chat about buying 2nd hand models.

Tonight's episode is a little bitter sweet as this is our last episode from the 2026 US Masters. What follows is a of recordings from Sunday. It includes post game discussions, breakdowns along with a number of great chats with our wonderful TOs for the event. We hope you enjoyed our coverage as much as we had bringing it to you. Timestamps00:01:03 - TO Discussion with Connor Murphy 00:22:24 - Keith Randall and Corey WalizerKeith’s ListCorey’s List00:39:00 - Andy Patton and Jeff SchiltgenAndy’s ListJeff’s List00:45:24 - Travis Timm, Sam Kula and Jason BirrTravis’ ListSam’s List00:56:09 - Corey Reynolds and Keith Randall Corey’s ListKeith’s List01:18:02 - Jason Birr01:29:30 - Connor Murphy, Kyle Pietsch and Jason Birr closes it out!