Gameplay

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

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Victory Conditions

Domination

Achieve a Domination victory by eliminating all opposing Factions, either by destroying their Main Base or through Assassination.

Political

Achieve a Political victory by being elected to the Governor of Dune Charter for 45 days.

Hegemony

Achieve a Hegemony victory by reaching 30,000 Hegemony.

Economical

Achieve an Economical victory by holding 50% of CHOAM Shares.

Espionage

Agents

• Your first agent begins recruiting after capturing your first village and takes 10 days by default; each subsequent agent recruits progressively slower.
• Default max is 10 agents, upgradeable to 15 via the Spying Mastery development.
• Captured agents can be traded back from the enemy faction, and also have a chance to escape on their own each day.
• Agent trait bonuses (recruitment speed, resource production, etc.) apply regardless of where the agent is assigned.

Each agent will have 1 special trait that modifies their abilities according to the below table:

Assignments

Up to 3 agents can be assigned per spying field (Harkonnen faction gets +1 slot).

Agents can be assigned to one of the following assignments to grant you benefits according to the below table:

Intelligence Levels

Assigning agents to a faction's spying field raises your Intelligence Level with that faction, unlocking progressively more information and capabilities:

• Level 1 — Reveals borders, village productions, councilors, and development counts; unlocks the Infiltration Cells operation.
• Level 2 — Reveals main base buildings, command points, units, agent assignments, available operations, and Underworld HQ presence.
• Level 3 — Unlocks the Assassination operation.

Operations

Operations are missions that can be launched by your Spies.

Operations take 3 days to prepare before deploying. Launching an operation exposes agents assigned to its prerequisite fields to capture risk — temporarily reassigning those agents before launching (and reassigning them back after) mitigates this risk.

Each operation has a difficulty level that determines several factors according to the table below:

List of Operations

Common Operations (All Factions)

Probe Setup

• Cost: 50 Intel | Difficulty: Easy
• Information Levels Required: None
• Factions: All

• + Reveals all information and units in the region
• + Advances detection of any Sietch in the region

Defense Sabotage

• Cost: 100 Intel | Difficulty: Easy
• Information Levels Required: Arrakis 1
• Factions: All

• + Missile Batteries and Main Base suffer −30% Power

Leave Order

• Cost: 100 Intel | Difficulty: Easy
• Information Levels Required: Landsraad 1
• Factions: All

• + Enemies lose 100 Solari per unit in the region

Supply Drop

• Cost: 100 Intel | Difficulty: Easy
• Information Levels Required: Spacing Guild 1
• Factions: All

• + Ally non-mechanical units gain +80 Supply daily

Scavenger Team

• Cost: 100 Intel | Difficulty: Easy
• Information Levels Required: CHOAM 1
• Factions: All

• + Converts 25% of the max Health of dying Military Units into Solari
• + +20% resources from pillaging a Village

Decoy Thumper

• Cost: 200 Intel | 200 Solari | Difficulty: Medium
• Information Levels Required: Arrakis 2
• Factions: All

• + Calls a Sandworm to the region
• + Protects neighboring regions from attacks

EMP Bomb

• Cost: 200 Intel | 200 Solari | Difficulty: Medium
• Information Levels Required: Spacing Guild 2
• Factions: All

• + Enemy mechanical units suffer −50% attack speed and −20% Speed

Administrative Burden

• Cost: 500 Intel | 500 Solari | Difficulty: Hard
• Information Levels Required: CHOAM 2
• Factions: All

• + Target faction Military Units are trained at −60% speed
• + Buildings constructed at −60% speed

Defense Breaches

• Cost: 500 Intel | 500 Solari | Difficulty: Hard
• Information Levels Required: Landsraad 2
• Factions: All

• + +50% damage received by the target Main Base
• + −3 Armor to the target Main Base

Faction-Specific Operations

Support Intelligence (Atreides)

• Cost: 100 Intel | Difficulty: Easy
• Information Levels Required: Spacing Guild 1

• + −5% damage received to Atreides and allies per launched operation

Arrakis Diplomacy (Atreides)

• Cost: 200 Intel | 200 Solari | Difficulty: Medium
• Information Levels Required: Arrakis 2

• + Disbands rebellions and raids
• + +200% increased relation gain with Sietches in the region

Cease Fire (Atreides)

• Cost: 500 Intel | 500 Solari | Difficulty: Hard
• Information Levels Required: Landsraad 2

• + Interrupts and prevents battles in target region for 2 days

Combat Drugs (Harkonnen)

• Cost: 100 Intel | Difficulty: Easy
• Information Levels Required: CHOAM 1

• + Ally units gain +30% damage and +10% Speed
• − Ally units lose −10% Health per day

Sleeper Agent (Harkonnen)

• Cost: 200 Intel | 200 Solari | Difficulty: Medium
• Information Levels Required: Arrakis 2

• + Any non-temporary non-mechanical unit has a 50% chance to spawn a Sleeper Agent

Toxic Vapors (Harkonnen)

• Cost: 500 Intel | 500 Solari | Difficulty: Hard
• Information Levels Required: Spacing Guild 2

• + Enemy non-mechanical units have no Health regeneration
• + Enemy non-mechanical units lose −30% Health per day

Poison the Reserves (Smugglers)

• Cost: 100 Intel | Difficulty: Easy
• Information Levels Required: Arrakis 1

• + Enemy units losing supply suffer −20% Speed and −5% Health per day

Extraction Network (Smugglers)

• Cost: 200 Intel | 200 Solari | Difficulty: Medium
• Information Levels Required: Spacing Guild 2

• + Every unit around the region's Village is extracted to Sietch Tuek instantly

Communication Jamming (Smugglers)

• Cost: 500 Intel | 500 Solari | Difficulty: Hard
• Information Levels Required: CHOAM 2

• + Cancels all current and blocks new operations in the region for 3 days

Hiding Tracks (Fremen)

• Cost: 100 Intel | Difficulty: Easy
• Information Levels Required: Arrakis 1

• + Allied units in the region and its neighbors gain Stealth
• + Enemy units suffer −10% Speed

Hidden Thumpers (Fremen)

• Cost: 200 Intel | 200 Solari | Difficulty: Medium
• Information Levels Required: Arrakis 2

• + Riding Sandworms to or from this region does not consume a Thumper
• + Units gain Stealth

Awaken the People (Fremen)

• Cost: 500 Intel | 500 Solari | Difficulty: Hard
• Information Levels Required: CHOAM 2

• + Start a rebellion in the Village

Consolidation (Corrino)

• Cost: 100 Intel | Difficulty: Easy
• Information Levels Required: CHOAM 1

• + +2 Armor to ally mechanical units and structures

Interdiction Zone (Corrino)

• Cost: 200 Intel | 200 Solari | Difficulty: Medium
• Information Levels Required: Landsraad 2

• + Enemy Carryalls cannot be used
• + Enemy Airfield cannot be used

Orbital Strike (Corrino)

• Cost: 500 Intel | 500 Solari | Difficulty: Hard
• Information Levels Required: Spacing Guild 2

• + Missiles strike from orbit targeting all ground enemy units, Villages, and Main Bases

Epic Quest (Ecaz)

• Cost: 100 Intel | Difficulty: Easy
• Information Levels Required: Arrakis 1

• + The Military Unit with the most Power in the region deals +100% damage

Live Performance (Ecaz)

• Cost: 200 Intel | 200 Solari | Difficulty: Medium
• Information Levels Required: Landsraad 2

• + Gain 5 Influence upon killing enemy units
• − Lose 5 Influence upon units dying

Elecca Fog (Ecaz)

• Cost: 500 Intel | 500 Solari | Difficulty: Hard
• Information Levels Required: CHOAM 2

• + In combat, enemy non-mechanical units cannot be controlled

Ambient Connection (Vernius)

• Cost: 100 Intel | Difficulty: Easy
• Information Levels Required: Landsraad 1

• + Ally mechanical units are Tethered remotely

Empirical Data (Vernius)

• Cost: 200 Intel | 200 Solari | Difficulty: Medium
• Information Levels Required: CHOAM 2

• + +1 Knowledge per unit of any faction in combat in the region

Hidden Backdoor (Vernius)

• Cost: 500 Intel | 500 Solari | Difficulty: Hard
• Information Levels Required: Spacing Guild 2

• + Enemy mechanical units cannot be controlled and attack their allies

Assassination Operations

Assassination operations are a special chain of missions leading to the elimination of a rival faction leader. They can be run concurrently with other operations.

Infiltration Cells

• Cost: 100 Intel | Difficulty: N/A
• Information Levels Required: Target Faction 1
• Factions: All

• + Install an Infiltration Cell in the target Village
• + Gain access to 1 more Agent slot in the target faction

Cell Search

• Cost: 200 Solari | Difficulty: N/A
• Information Levels Required: None
• Factions: All

• + Reveal the presence of Infiltration Cells in the region and its neighbors

Assassination

• Cost: 500 Intel | 1,000 Solari | Difficulty: N/A
• Information Levels Required: Target Faction 3 | Arrakis 1 | Spacing Guild 1 | CHOAM 1 | Landsraad 1
• Factions: All

• + Launch the Assassination Countdown to kill the target faction leader
• + The targeted faction leader will be removed from the game if successful

Landsraad Council

Resolutions

Charters

Special Events

General Info

Event List

Points of Interest

General Info

Points of Interest List