TURN 5

Storm: Moves 3 spaces to Cielago East


Spice Blow:
Sihaya Ridge

Bidding:

Atreides: 0 card

Emperor: 2 cards

Harkkonen: 0 cards

Bene Gesserits: 0 card

The Fremen: 1 card

The Guild: 1 card


Movement (in turn order):


The Fremen Revive 1F+2R. No shipping. Move 1R from False Wall South into Tueks Sietch.

Atreides: revive 2, ship 5 troops to Tuek’s Seitch

Emperor: revives 1 Sardaukar and pays for 2 regs, and drops 1 in Seitch Tabr

Harkkonen: revive 2, ship 7 to Habbanya Ridge Seitch, moves 1 from Tabr to Carthag

The Guild: moves ships 12 to Arakeen

Bene Gesserits: drops 7 into Habbanya Ridge Flat



Deals:
None

Battles:
1) The Emperor vs Fremen at Tuek’s Seitch



Fremen Battle Plan:
Shadout Mapes. (Value 3)
Dial zero.
No cards.

Strength: 3


Emperor:
Play Kulon (no effect)
Dial one troop
Leader Caid (value 3)

Strength 4.

Emperor wins 4 to 3



2) The Guild vs House Atreides at Arrakeen

Atreides forgets to ask prescience question.

Guild Battle Plan:
Leader Esmar Tuek (3)
Dial 11 troops
Play ‘Trip to Gamont’ (no effect)
Play Snooper

Strength 14


Atreides Battle Plan:


9 troops
no weapon,
no defense
Dr. Yueh (1)

Strength 10

Guild wins 14-10

3) House Harkonnen vs The Emperor at Sietch Tabr

Prescience question on behalf of Harkonnens to The Emperor: What weapon are you using?
Answer: Poison

Harkonnen Battle Plan.

Zero troops dialed
Leader: Feyd-Rautha (6)
Weapon: Maula Pistol
Defense: Snooper

Strength 6

Emperor:

Weapon: Poison
Defence: None
Hero: Burseg (3)
Dial 1 troop

Strength 4 (-3) = 1

Snooper blocks Poison.
Maula Pistol kills Burseg. Harkonnen wins 6-1.

3) House Harkonnen vs The Bene Gesserits at Habbanya Ridge Seitch

Prescience question on behalf of Harkonnens to The Bene Gesserits: How many troops are you dialling?
Answer: 8 troops

Harkonnen Battle Plan

Zero troops dialed
Leader: Cheap Hero (0)
Weapon: None
Defense: None

Bene Gesserit Plan:

Dial 8 troops
Weapon: Chaumas (poison)
Defense: None
Leader: Reverend Mother Ramallo (Strength 5)

That's a 13. Poison kills a faceless Harkonnen extra.

Bitch of the turn: To Atreides for failing to use prescience and not 'cuz he's allied with the Harkonnens.

Just for fun, here's the snapshot of the board after the battles.

We're about to exceed the capacity of the tanks here.

BG are the only faction with less than 10 tokens in the tanks, and the Emperor are leading with 15. Guild were tied at 15 before using the Ghola card to retrieve five.

Nice! It's like a rainbow, A RAINBOW OF DEATH!

Dr_Mabuse wrote:


38 tokens tasted the rainbow of death this turn. That's a lot.

Tank count before revival this turn is 63, or just over half the total game pieces.

Yeah, typical of a Euro isn't it? (jab at bitches who have renounced Dune's AT status)

I came to post about Dune PBEM and found this old stickied thread. We haven't had a chance to play Dune ftf for some time due to lack of players and I was wondering what PBEM solutions are there. I'm eager to give anything a shot if there's interest.

The Vassal solution is a little less than optimal, because the module sucks compared to fancy new ones.

It would be best with a moderator to track the deck and such. Bidding takes forever in PBEM, Dukester had some thoughts about how to deal with that.

Someone did a major revision of the Dune module using Scott Everts' art from BGG. I haven't tried it so I can't vouch for whether or not it's easier to use, but if anyone wants to take a gander: www.vassalengine.org/wiki/Module:Dune

Hey, there's been a lot of work on that this year. I hadn't seen any of it.

That's good, because the bare-bones module we were playing on for this thread's original incarnation sucked. A lot of faith in the other players was required. In Dune, hahahahaha!

I played around with the Vassal module and it felt clumsy. Best suited for a moderator, but the players wouldn't need it.

None of it matters though, given the lack of responses here. Looks like I'll have to go on Duneless.