dune player aid Based on revised rules (2011).
START:
Each player receives 4 random Traitors, and keeps 1 Traitor. No
mulligan if all 4 are own leaders. Set up as per player shield. 1
treachery card.
GAME TURN: (MAX 10 OR 15 TURNS)
1. STORM Draw top Storm card, move Storm, shuffle cards. Tokens
& Spice in desert touched by Storm go to Tleilaxu Tanks.
2. SPICE BLOW If Territory card, place Spice unless Storm in
sector If Worm, Nexus starts immediately, then tokens and Spice
removed from previous territory, then draw until Territory card
revealed. Ignore all Worm cards in first round
3. BIDDING Bankrupt player gets 2 spice. Same # of treachery
cards as # players revealed to be bid, for players holding less
then 4 cards. Players take turns to initiate bidding. Min bid 1
spice. Auction until all cards claimed, or 1 card unwanted
(remaining cards return to top of deck).
4. REVIVAL Revive max 3 tokens to Reserve, paying Spice where
needed. Revive max 1 leader per turn if all 5 normal leaders had
been in tanks at same time. Pay Spice equal to leader strength. May
only revive 2nd time if all other players leaders have been revived
and killed again.
5. MOVEMENT No Shipment/Movement: from / through / into sector
in Storm, territory with ally, Stronghold with tokens of 2 other
factions. Be clear into which sector you ship or move.
A. Shipment Add tokens from reserves on any 1 territory. 1 Spice
per token into Stronghold, 2 Spice per token into other
territory.
B. Movement Move any # of tokens from any 1 territory to
adjacent territory. Move up to 3 territories if you control
Arrakeen or Carthag.
6. BATTLE Must be in all territories with 2+ factions, except if
separated by Storm, or at Polar Sink. Aggressor side determined by
player order, and decides order of battles involving him. Aggressor
wins ties.
Combatants secretly select # from 0 to total strength of tokens
in territory, and leader (mandatory unless no more), and optionally
1 weapon and/or 1 defense treachery card if leader present. Weapon
kills leader unprotected by defense. Killed leaders dont count.
Winner gains spice = killed leader (including own) and may keep
treachery cards. Lose # token as dialed. Loser loses all tokens and
treachery cards. Leader may not be killed as result of battle, only
by weapon card. Leader surviving battle may not battle in another
territory in same round. Instant win if enemy leader is Traitor in
your pay. Traitor killed. If both are traitors, all die, no one
gains spice.
7. COLLECTIONS 2 Spice per token on territory, or 3 Spice per
token if player controls Arrakeen or Carthag.
8. CONTROL Factions in Strongholds control them until next
Control round (& may use Stronghold bonuses). Check for victory
- number of Strongholds to win:
Total players Alliance size
1 pl 2 pl 3+ pl
2 pl 4 - -
3 pl 4 5 -
4+ pl 3 4 5
NEXUS (ALLIANCES)
May join / leave / create alliances Alliances are open info, but
deals made to form them need not be. Allies may help each other to
pay Spice for cards in Bidding round, or for shipment in Movement
round. This doesnt allow them to directly transfer Spice between
each other in these rounds. Allies win together.
BRIBES & DEALS
Only public deals must be honored at full. May involve Spice but
not cards, tokens, leaders etc. Transferred Spice is placed in
front of receiving players shield. Only in Collections round player
may take it.
OTHER
First Player = player whose dot is next to be hit by Storm (not
the dot under Storm). In rounds 3-7 players act in Dot Order
starting from First Player, then anti-clockwise. Polar Sink: never
in Storm, no battles, allies may share this territory.
