Dune

This entry covers GF9’s 2019 Dune for 2–6. Follow faction sheets for starting forces, spice and privileges. Deal four traitor cards from factions in play and normally keep one secretly; faction exceptions take precedence.

Play at most ten turns, each ordered as Storm, Spice Blow/Nexus, CHOAM Charity, Bidding, Revival, Shipment/Movement, Battle, Spice Collection and Mentat Pause. Capturing a stronghold does not itself trigger an immediate victory check.

Storms can destroy forces and spice in sand sectors and restrict shipping, movement and battle, subject to protected terrain and faction exceptions. Ignore sandworms drawn on turn one. Later sandworms resolve their effects and create a Nexus for public alliance changes.

Players with zero or one spice may claim charity up to two. The normal Treachery hand limit is four; a full hand cannot bid. Bids must be payable, including permitted allied assistance and faction exceptions.

Normally revive at most three forces total per turn, including your faction’s free allowance; additional permitted forces cost two spice each and return to reserves. Normally, after all five leaders are in the tanks, revive one per turn for its fighting value. Advanced captured leaders affect availability; cards and factions provide exceptions.

Normally make one shipment to a single territory, then move one group. Shipping costs one spice per force into a stronghold or two elsewhere. Movement is normally one adjacent territory, or up to three if you have forces in Arrakeen or Carthag when movement starts. Storm and two-other-faction stronghold occupancy restrict entry.

Enemy factions sharing a territory must battle, except where storm separation or the Polar Sink prevents it. Secretly choose strength, an available leader or Cheap Hero, and up to one weapon and one defence. Compare dial plus surviving leader strength; the aggressor wins ties. The loser loses all local forces; the winner normally loses the committed forces, subject to traitors and other effects.

Basic combat does not charge spice to support forces. In Advanced combat each used force needs one spice for full strength; unsupported forces count at half strength. The Fremen Advanced privilege waives this cost. Advanced also adds double spice blows, specified stronghold income and advanced faction/Karama effects.

The default public alliance has at most two members and normally changes only at a Nexus. It needs four strongholds held between its members, in separate occupations. Allies normally cannot enter each other’s occupied territories except the Polar Sink. They may assist permitted bidding/shipping costs and share the alliance powers on their sheets.

Normally check during Mentat Pause: one faction wins with at least one force in each of three strongholds. Two-player games require four; default alliances require four combined. Bene Gesserit prediction and Fremen/Guild special victories also apply. Resolve final-turn outcomes using the factions in play; most spice is not the default tiebreak or victory rule.