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Hi Jack, Do you think Negotiate (Epic Oratory) should have been an the Ultra reward card instead of a normal reward card ?

Does the special victory condition now include ecaz and morotani?

Hey jack, we had a rules question for you: Moritani was in carthag, and there was a terror token in carthag as well. Tielaxu ships into carthag, moritani does an enemy of my enemy and the two become allies. However they both occupy carthag now(moritani ships later after tielaxu and someone else). Two questions 1. Can any other faction ship into carthag while these allies sort of illegally co-occupy or is the stronghold blocked for the time being? 2. If moritani isnt able to move out of carthag on their turn, what happens to the moritani force in carthag? When does that force go into the tanks? After moritanis shipment and movement, or after the shipping and movement phase?

I found it to be a little heavy handed on the exposition. reminded me at times of the comic strip prologue added to some versions of Lynchs dune. that said, I did enjoy some aspects you mentioned and hope they rely more on subtext and less on exposition in future episodes

I felt it built up a few interesting conflicts that should all (hopefully) come together in an interesting way.

If you make one ruleset I'll make A NEW ADVANCED RULESET HAHAHAHAHA

For me it wasn't bad, but was also not great. Didn't like the acting, I could notice a lack of attention to the world (like Emperor just randomly all alone with no guards, approached by random soldier who showed up few days ago), and that club scene... So unnecessary. You can argue that clubs are a thing in Dune universe, but as I said once already elsewhere - one can have a crush on a beautiful girl, and know that as a human she goes to toiled do normal human things, but you don't need to look at it... One thing I like a lot is the scenery, architecture and set designs..

Offense revealed Safeguard. Defense revealed Attack Card. Defense immediately played Emotion Control. Does he still lose ships because of the Safeguard? By following the timing conflict rules?

Learned new stuff, thanks for the effort!

Does Anyone have recommendations for an 8 Player table regarding the factions I own Base game + Ix/Tleilaxu and Choam/Richese? Thanks for all replies

Could you retrofit conquest rules to the og.? Or even have a bidding system for the other factions like got hotd exp.

What happens if the mortani draw one of their own traitors or a traitor for a faction they've already assassinated during the mentat pause phase?

Now that it's a full playlist, I can stream them all together!

Hey Jack! I got a quick question for you in about BG forces and intrusion, there are multiple effects in game that either send forces (Bene Teliaxu High Threshold, Moritani terror token, etc.) or add forces (Caladan High Threshold ability), can BG flip from fighters to advisors when these abilities happen, or is it strictly "shipping" or "moving" and not sending/adding?

Hey Jack, I got a quick question for you, can either of the following trigger terror tokens; Tleilaxu sending forces with their homeworld High Threshold or Atredies adding forces with their homeworld High Threshold?

Loving the Australian view

Special Karama abilities should be listed on the faction’s sheet rather than having to go back to the rule book and flip through the pages. I know it’s more text on an already full sheet, but in my opinion it’s a must

I hope it becomes possible to package the assembled wheels in the box.

Can't imagine a game teaching new players without including Sorcerer. One of the best.

Maybe a good compromise between having miniatures and having stackable tokens is to do something like with Axis & Allies, and have a miniature that you place on top of stacked tokens to identify them easier and make it look cool, but the stack actually tells you the number of troops that are there. Best of both worlds, right? Practicality and it looks cool.

I love the idea of having more nexus cards!

Just had a idea for 2 player game mode. You pick a double faction (like in Conquest version), so Atreides + Fremen, Emperor + Harkonnen / BG etc, BUT next you draw a victory condition card and it can be for either one or other faction (and they should not be very similiar), so you still can bluff in the game by misdirecting etc

We just need Mother Mohiam to approve.

This Sunday I played 3 aliens. 2 were Sadist (original) and Boomerang. It was hilarious to me that I won with Sadist without even trying for mind games. It simply generated its own. The other players were so terrified and hyper focused on that power, they were throwing away opportunity after opportunity to gain foreign colonies. Not using enough ships, not allying at all, etc. I ended up winning because of that. In the Boomerang game, I won with the alt win by getting players to ally with me early in by calling them as allies with the promise of calling me as an ally later. But more importantly, I snuck in some alliances by asking players when they were deep in thought looking at their cards "hey are you calling in any allies?" and they would say "ya I call all allies", completely distracted and not taking my power into consideration. You gotta be a sneaky devil with Boomerang.

If I plan to only get one expansion, which one would you say is the most fun?

Any thoughts on how Lady Fenring knew about the traitor?

KH Edition is going to be so insane this community is going to be eating well in 2025

I was hoping you'll read Ben's post, but to see you two discuss Dune is a treat! Especially getting your insight on all the things Ben mentioned in his post

Great episode

How big is your table Jack Reda? If it's good enough for you I've got to have it. Unless, you want to go bigger?

One of my personal favorites

Design question about Dune: Why not give each player a "No weapon" and "No defense" card, so there are always cards used in battle (to prevent a certain type of meta-gaming). Also: how come the battle wheel hasn't evolved into the form-factor of a knife after all these years? It would be more thematic. "May thy knife chip and shatter" and all that. I picture an arrangement with a troop dial and spice dial gear (where the jimping would be on a real knife) that would increment a linear counter built into a crysknife-shaped shell (with a space for the leader token in the hilt). If I had a 3-d printer I'd whip one up and sell it on Etsy, but I don't. Maybe something for the Kwisatz edition?

are we getting a new expansion any time soon ?

Because you have more of it don't make it good

I love Vector. It has great versatility.

Jack, please tell me what order of a nexus actions in advanced game? I draw a spice card with spice blow - its going to a pile A next i draw a next card and its SH, and its devour troops on deck B, except fremen troops Whats happened next? We paused the game and nexus happens? Or we continue to draw cards until new spice card blow shows up? And only after that nexus occurs? Fremen will ride the worm and use the additional worms on sand territories before nexus and before next card shows up? or after spice blow card and nexus? What the true order of all of this? Thx for all of your videos! It was very useful, i have a deck of papers with dune19 nuances! Trying to teach playing this game a maximum correctly!

Quite the opposite for me here: I rather take standees over minis. Minis are spectacle but barely add anything to the game (they add to the price, though). The Doom Boardgame was a massive flop for me. Never played the first one but I felt that the 2nd one is designed to favor the Marines.

Hey Jack, at 4:00 you say "essence card set", but at 4:37 you say "you will have 3 of these at a time". Should the "essence card set" say "essence card cache"?

Nemesis honestly just feels like the pinnacle of horror boardgames. The theme is on point but the gameplay is also really well tuned. The game is brutal and there's so many things that can go terribly wrong, but at the same time the different characters have their specific niches that allow you to have a good chance of survival if only you can make those crucial correct decisions. I really enjoy how lockdown ramps that up, both in terms of shear brutality and also the power level of the characters in their own area of expertise. Lockdown and OG nemesis are definitely the top of my list.

That's an interesting approach to create a set of aliens. Normally I just pick Aliens that work well with the Halloween theme. So it would be something like Zombie, Witch, Alien, Locust, Lunatic, and others.

When a player shows you a treachery card from his hand because of a mentat skill. Can you show this card to other players? Or this information is private and if you want give information to the table you can only said which card you saw?

One of the things you didn't mention is that the mechanics work without the flavor. It's a GOOD game that encapsulaes the novels flavor even if you stripped it all away and used different names. Arrakis would still be an unwieldy desert to cross unless you have technology or are the fremen. You would still need to brave it's dangers for spice. The economy would still be a mass of well lubricated olgiarchs who refuses to let go of their riches unless they waste it on their petty squabbles. (Spice combat makes it more direct, but combat is even in basic combat the main way spice leaves the economy.) the factions each feel like they do in the books. (except for atridies being a bit too much "house paul") battles are exceptionally deterministic planned affairs decided by leadership&treachery. (my issue with spice combat no one brings up, it's intent was to add what amounts to randomness to battle.) and victory comes only from maintaining your strength, cultivating the right alliance, and making a dramatic play when no one else is prepared.

i think nerfing watcher and buffing silent makes sense, at least from my experience playing the original game the silent is wildly strong (and fun!) and the silent falls behind a bit. as a defect fan i think they're ported pretty well

We had a fight a week a go with moritani VS hark. Hark won by traitor call, moritani then assassinated a hark leader, and Tleilaxu then called Face dancer on Harks leader!

Might have missed it, but it shouldn't be lost that the Witches are in the mix. It doesn't get much more Halloween than Witches.

I felt soo happy and relieved when you said you hated the Mind and not a game that truly means so much to me! Lol - but to give my perspective , I actually really enjoy the Mind ! But, I've played it with a handful of different groups, and it's certainly one of my most polarizing games; people either love it or hate it. I think it's a little bit of a silly game, but I like being silly, so I don't mind playing it with new players just to see if they like it or not, but I agree that it does feel like less of a "board game" and more of an activity. I keep this in my collection, and I've had some really great experiences with it, but also some people really don't like it but still say that it was worth a shot but won't come back to it. Also, I agree with you about the "no talking or gesturing rule" because people always do glances and make faces and sometimes gesture - and that can defeat the purpose of the games intent - BUT I TRULY BELIEVE IT'S MEANT TO BE PLAYED BY BREAKING THAT RULE lol , I think it's more fun when you make faces and you're not supposed to , and then everyone ends of doing it and it's soo funny, I think having the rule and breaking it makes the game more fun lol but kinda defeats the purpose of having a "rule". Anyways, thanks for the video , totally understand and respect your opinion on this one, I have friends who agree with you on this :)

Does a sandtrout force players to discard their nexus cards?

I don't loathe this game. However, I do agree with Jack though but I would argue that it's not actually a game; it's a puzzle. As a computer scientist, I often deal with such puzzles. Often the puzzles are framed like, "There is this problem ..., and communication is not possible, and all participants are completely logical (or something that indicates that they are smart enough to solve the puzzle). How do _they_ solve it?". I have solved this game. If we never discuss how to solve this game and I play with other people that have solved this game, then we will win *every* time. Once you know the algorithm, you can solve it every time without any communication *at all*. So, I think this is why Jack loathes this game; because deep down he can feel that there isn't a game, but a puzzle with only one completely non-communicating 100% winning algorithm. I won't say what that algorithm is, so that there is no spoiler. But, I guess the spoiler is that there is an algorithm. If you don't know the algorithm, the game is essentially just pure luck where the players are the random number generator. I guess that's a loatheable thing that a product advertises itself as a game where there is advanced thinking but it is really just luck in disguise and there is no strategy other than knowing the winning algorithm. Once you know that algorithm, the game becomes a task, like Candyland. Please feel validated, Jack! I want to make a comment about the experience/feeling that people feel/experience but I need to refer to the algorithm that solves this game.

Hey Jack, I have another "M" question. This time about Muckraker. If you are an ally as Muckraker and your side won and the main player exempts all allies when you accuse them, are you still able to discard a card at least?

I was never a fan of the Objectives variant. I like the simplicity of looking at the scoretrack to see how many foreign colonies players have. That is the one way to win (minus any special win conditions). I don't see a need to muddy the waters with other scoring mechanisms. Although like all Cosmic variants, sometimes different can be refreshing.