Dune: Spice Wars
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Submitted by: David K.
Spice Addiction Guide (Insane Difficulty):
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* If not playing Duke then always trade with Duke. You won’t lose authority
when trading with him and he will. That’s a free 15% trade and research
boost.
* If not playing Duke then always be pillaging especially as Smugglers which
give you hegemony. This is good income and also keeps your enemies from
taking strategic villages if you keep them pillaged permanently.
* Keep an eye out for Water Seller Caravans. For 500 solari they give a good
chunk of authority.
* Avoid bumping into too many factions at the same time. I.e don’t rush Polar
Sink until you are ready.
* Always put your first agent on Arrakis for the +1 authority. I usually go
first two there. +1/+2 adds up to a lot in the game and allows for early
expansion.
* Focus on economy tree first, you at least need tech for processing plant,
spice silos, extra harvester crews before you venture into the military
tree. You need a healthy economy before you can build up a good military.
If I find myself in a remote starting location then I sometimes go heavy
eco and to make the Choam Branch building.
* Timed Game Events That Are Not Easy to Notice
* There are timed game events that are not obvious that you can easily miss
your first several games. I don’t mean the red/green notifications at the
top middle of your screen. I am referring to the small green/red tab looking
notifications that will appear below your faction profile at the top left
over the course of a game. When playing with tutorials on these appear with
the tutorials so you might not even see them. These events are absolutely
huge. They ask you to do something like create two new economy buildings
or pillage two villages in X amout of days and give you a choice of rewards.
You can snag 1000 solari, or 500 hegemony and 500 solari, troop experience,
etc. More importantly, if you ignore the detrimental ones you can end up
with a rebellion, lose a troop or lose spies.
The game does a poor job of emphasizing this area IMHO. Also if you forget to
make a choice even after you meet the requirements you lose out on beneficial
ones and fail the detrimental ones — easy to do in the last half of a hectic
game when fighting and dealing with rebels.
The UI needs rework to make these icons bigger and grab your attention much more.
-=Dirty Little Secrets=-
The game in its current state actually is easier on the hardest setting(Insane).
This is because the AI just loves to send wave after wave of troops to you if you
share a border with them. If you are not ready for it then you will be in for pain
but if you are ready with a good economy, troops and ops then just farm the hell
out of the AI for hegemony. Each kill is 25 hegemony whether it is the AI or militia.
Most times when playing on Medium and especially Large maps you have plenty of time
to build up your economy before worrying about a big military even on Insane. Small
maps are definitely more challenging. Once you are ready with a good economy, decent
size military, barracks building and good +intel generation then you+ops -> AI waves
of farmable units. It doesn’t matter how much the AI fails to take your village it
will try over and over again giving you hegemony and troop xp.
I’ve done speed runs to compare how fast you can win the game. Would you believe
the fastest way was through a one spice village hegemony victory with the Smugglers?
Yea they are currently that broken. Here’s why. Each faction has their own specific
way of gaining hegemony. The smugglers get it through pillaging. 150 hegemony per
pillage doesn’t sound like a lot but it adds up. In my victory I had over 12k
hegemony just from pillaging. Since smugglers can get income and research from
underworld HQs I didn’t have to worry about taking any other villages. If you pick
Banerjee you’ll get plascrete from pillaging along with increased solari. You will
only have a plascrete issue later in the game as you fill up your HQ with buildings
since they cost 20 plascrete each. Not really a problem though as long as you keep
pillaging and trading with the AI.
Oh yea trading…this is kind of broken right now too ?? It doesn’t matter how much
the AI hates you it will always trade with you. Oops you lost a spy in the
assassinate operation? No problem you can usually get it back for 700-1000 solari
and use it for you next step two steps of the operation.
Your first HQ building should always be a Research Center in a 1-slot. This will
almost double your research speed and really get you going through the tech tree.
When playing the Fremen which has an OP bazaar building your next building should
be the bazaar also in a 1-slot(make sure you researched it in the eco tree). Put
the bazaar in a 1-slot district and you get 40% bonus to research for economy,
military and diplomatic. That combined with Research Center gets you through the
tech tree faster than anyone. As if that wasn’t enough later you can move it in
a two slot military to get +4 power to your units. If you want to steam roll
over everything in your path as a Fremen you already have beefy units, now add
+4 power and now you can have Fedaykin with +4 power, sand killer counselor and
up against 5+ units by his lonesome for another 50% power and +5 armor is just
silly fun.
How to Resist Rebellion:
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The main problem is not to minimize rebellion. It is when the rebellion happens in
your Specia village and you lose your only source of specia, and you lose your game
of course because of this. Because unless you have a pretty decent army to fight
the rebellion, its done. This is just another incredibly badly designed mechanic
that again, who cares, because the game is a total forgettable experience.
As long as you have an army you can hike or fly to the city in question and usually
there is enough time. But the real problems start when you have 2-3 of them firing
off simultaneously while being attacked. You can easily lose multiple cities thanks
for that ability. I’d much rather see it be something akin to a raid where you have
some warning, your militia can fight against the rebels and the rebels have to hike
to your city. It’d still be good as an ability, but not as busted as it is right now.
(unless I missed some way to defend against them)
The problem is not losing many cities.. the problem is to basically had to restart
the scenary because once your only specia village is gone, you cant to anything
else. Either you use the rest of your specia to buy the bribe, or you exchange it
for solaris to buy another army to be able to capture again the village and IF, but
even if you succeed you will be completely ruined because you cant afford the bribe
anymore. There should be more options, but there is none. Just luck.
Assassination Explanatory Guide:
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When you begin the assasination and the enemy detects it, at the assassination
tab there will be a progress that starts at 100% which will fall over time.
You need to send Assassin in one infiltration cell in order to reset it back at
100% and keep the assassination going until it succeeds.
If the enemy removes all the cells, then it will fail, so make sure to kill any
unit that is trying to remove the cell and keep sending assasin in that cell until
you win.
You need at least 1 cell alive for this to happen.
-=Notes=-
Also, maybe in conquest you cannot assassinate from the start due to objective
restrictions. I am not sure about this, but i know it has assassination mission
at some point.
Useful Tips for The House Ecaz:
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The sanctuaries and masterpieces in combination are kind of insane.
You can easily stack village traits quite high that way… (1 or 2 from santuaries,
one from the +trait-building, 1 from 3 masterpieces plus fortress building when
you don’t need the slots for something else) – and the masterpieces count double
for stuff that counts buildings.
So got a spot with +3 solari per eco building? Get windtraps, the +trait-building,
2 eco-masterpieces and a different one(for the 3), and it counts as 5 buildings.
With the trait stacked 4 or 5 times that’s 60-75 solari from what i consider one
of the weaker village traits.
If you have a territory with 2 useful traits, it can be totally worth playing
around that.
And it works across the board, the extra manpower or solari if all types of
buildings? Stack them up and you have a recruitment center costing nothing with
extra benefits.
The best thing is: By selectively leaving gaps(that cannot be attacked by enemies)
you end up not owning so many villages that the authority cost escalates, you can
cover quite a large territory, and also selectively liberate enemy territories
after circling around to instantly add ones up front.
The Garden upgrade is tempting to use in a spot with many sanctuaries for the extra
knowledge, but imho that’s a trap. I use it militarily, after getting the research
that boosts militia within 2 territories from it. It goes on the front line, making
authority costs nearby cheaper and strenghtening defenses.
Fencers seem quite useless, with their focus on acting alone – don’t like them. I
also try to always “overtrain” when there is no hurry for fast reinforcements.
So far, there’s a few things I’d prefer to be different(fencers, the youngest
daughter advisor(likely will never use her – sure I could first take the future
sanctuary territory, load it with masterpieces, then abandon, but that just seems
like extra work for a little bit of authority. Possibly strong, but only relevant
when I already snowballed with the help of the other advisors picked). maybe some
different handling or mechanic with sietches in sanctuaries.)
But it’s been quite fun playing the house.
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