Did you know that the Bene gesserit are hard to win with?

Matt doesn't seem to use the single troop vs big stack battle - you will dial a 1 and thus it just comes comes down to the leaders (or a sacrificial you will dial a 24 - to burn their troops) approach

@@edwardlane1255 what do you mean? if you dial 1 it doesn't mean the other side dials 1 as well...

@@Dometooplz I think I may have been playing it wrong in that past, I thought the bene gessert could instruct the opponent to dial high/low on their combat wheel - thanks I've not played for ages, but checking the rules it looks like it's only cards not the number dialled

It was never explicitly mentioned, but did you?

For those who are not familiar with the rules of Dune, the video starts at 00:00 .

For those who want to skip, the video ends at 3:06:33

"What the hell are we supposed to use man? Harsh language?" -Aliens

BREAK!

@Cole The moldier Alright sweathearts. What are you wating for? Breakfast in bed?

Game over man! Game over! :D

@Cole The moldier Would you sir? I`d like that.

I was going to bring up the same thing.

Yeah I think he goes too easy on people. Not only could the guild bankroll him, but they also save him money each shipment of troops.

@@peterstedman6140 they can give him free shipment

Would love to see Matt play on his full Dune power level

yeah like what cards they are bidding on.... I know it´s important that the other players don´t know it but i´m very currious^^

Yeah, the players and viewers only know what they doing because he is commenting about. This game is crazy if you don't dominate the rules and strategies.

This would be interesting. I would also like to see the game from at least one player's perspective. To see what cards, reserve, money he/she has.

i would love to see this! or a way to see a bit more like the secrets that are shared between players and the guess/predictions of the Bene Gesserit

I'll second this... I've watched the first couple a few times already. Is hard to get full groups to play in person, so I'll live vicariously as often as possible.

I'd love to watch more of these as well. They're so much fun.

Honestly, this could be my Monday nights, just watching the lovely Anna smurfin' the lot of you :)

Agreed, the spice must flow!

Yes, absolutely

You have a group to play?

@@king124kine i wish

I agree. It's odd, Matt must be going easy on the newbies, otherwise I don't understand his plays

"I think, by themselves, the Bene Gesserit are the worst faction...but as allies they are incredibly powerful." Sounds like the designers had a very good understanding on the setting then.

At first I was asking myself why would somebody comment something about biscuits on a video about a Dune themed boardgame but I understood it somewhere around @2:13:00 .

Did you end up getting it? What did you think?

@@MrJibbajabbawocky I did buy it and it's great. But a few things that I think really need to be considered before buying this: Do I have a boardgame group thats big enough, has enough time and is interested in this sort of game? and Are the players in my group experienced enough (or big enough dune fans to be willing to put in the work :) ) to have fun with this.

@@danielschneider5804 I'd say 4 is a good minimum number of players. There's enough factions that you can rotate them round and have "new" games each time. 6 is the sweet spot. I would recommend making a day of it. have people bring snacks, or potluck. you can get a good two or three 6-person games in in 8 hours. Even better if you get a big group and get two boards going. :) a 12 player game (with the newest expansion coming out)... that could be a party day akin to the super bowl.

Ground control to EMPEROR TOM Commencing countdown engines on

Spoilers.... Yeah she really deserved that win. Especially satisfying to see how OD screwed up and helped her win considering he got talked into his super dumb betrayal in the last game.

Tom Atreides also stays very much on top of the game (but he has prescience). But as Atreides he is always in the crosshairs and has to play more on the table (because without his stronghold he lacks mobility and income).

Not a single "live long and prosper" like from the traitorous Dr. Spock … smh

Exterminate...

A large chunk of the book is missing from the film so you should find it Intresting.

The rules mention no such limitation to worm movement. I can see why you'd thematically want to have a rule like that, but the rules only forbid moving into strongholds already held by 2 players and into storms.

vleessjuu I’m not sure if going off the board is ok for worm travel, but the position of the storm would make it impossible to travel to Arakeen because of the rock. I think it was more of a common sense thing since the worms can’t travel through the rock. Like I said though I can’t speak to the fact that maybe the other hemisphere is considered all sand so you can go off the board and reach any location connected to the other hemisphere.

@@chrisbray3084 Sure, as a common sense rule you could argue something like that, but the rules really do not say that. They flatly state you can move troops to any territory you like, subject only to normal occupancy rules. It mentions no considerations of how to go from A to B, so in a narrow reading of the rules you should just treat this movement as some sort of teleportation. Of course, the rules of Dune have been riddled with these sorts of interpretation issues for decades, so I'd just say: play the game how you like. It's what people have been doing all along. In fact, this video uses advanced rules but no advanced combat (where you have to pay spice to use troops at full strength), even though the GF9 rules are quite clear about stating that advanced rules should incorporate advanced combat. This alone shows how people have been picking and choosing how to apply the rules how they like.

yeah, denying that alliance offer from the Guild when Anna was flush with cash AND had rights to see all the treachery cards the coming round, AND she was in a good position on the board + troops in reserve... that was kind of odd.

just a tiny thing... the mcdm logo overlay in the bottom right might work better top right so it doesn't overlay the player/faction overlay.

This is almost literally why I moved out of a rural area, also social dance