Dune: Spice Wars - Smugglers Gameplay - [1/3]

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

Episode 2 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6OVn3Z9h9WHZ8U

[@jasperzanjani]

Potato you are one of the few people for whom I have to set playback speed to 0.75

[@delta.631]

This game looks so cool. It also seems like you can finish a run in 2-3 hours which is a nice change of pace for a 4X game. Thanks for all the content, Spuddy!

[@garethsentry]

I don't think you can finish that quickly except maybe on the smallest map, i play on normal speed and difficulty and three hours gets me to mid game. The economy is complicated to juggle and you need a big army no matter who you play, and the way the game is set up makes it fairly difficult to do that quuckly

[@theonlyleg9822]

@@garethsentry I have played 2 wins - Leto and the Baron, both games within 15 minutes of eachother at around 3.5hrs so yeah a little over 3 hours seems to be accurate (for me anyway I play on hard going to try insane for my next games and I definetly am not the quickest at this game)

[@theonlyleg9822]

@@garethsentry not too sure on the big army tho, managed to pass just using 18 commander points for Leto, depends on your win condition/relations

[@hallo0hoi]

@@garethsentry political victory as atreides is also a lot quicker then other victory conditions, you can win at the 15k hegemony mark

[@Hijfblog]

"You'd expect desert to be ugly" dude, the entire book and also the villeneuve movie are loveletters to the wild beauty of desert environments.

[@TheSweetSpirit]

Have you ever played Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak? they do a great job there too with the art and design of the environment.

[@OP_Magikarp]

honey wake up new potato vid just dropped

[@ChristianBondeHansen]

Just played a full smugglers game without using the underworld headquarters mechanic. What would i even do without these videos.

[@eSSentialplaysYT]

The depth and complexity I've seen so far from your playthroughs is amazing. This game is quickly shaping up to be a fantastic strategy game. I'm still struggling a bit with the House/Faction colours. Having played an un-Godly amount of hours way back in Westwood Studios' "Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty", seeing House Atreides as green (not blue) throws me for a loop. Green was House Ordos (similar to Smugglers, in that they were driven by smuggling, trade and profit). I'll get over the colour conflict eventually, haha. Keep the content rolling!

[@CmdrTyrael]

Any Dune fan would david lynch you for suggesting blue is Atreides colour (see what I did there) 🤣

[@0_Body]

Smugglers seem like the scrawny but crafty faction. Other Factions: Punches you and takes a bite of your lunch Smugglers: Jokes on you I stole your wallet and your mom

[@funkwolf]

In my game as the smugglers I noticed each town has a special bonus shown as an sort of "buff" icon. It's not huge but it did steer my decision making for the buildings I wanted to make in each one. I hope they add more variety procedural things such as this in future updates.

[@stevenbrown7629]

This is why Potato was gaining 20 Solari after enemy dying in his territory. It can be advantageous to choose one area over another for some bonuses. The special area that increase Manpower generation by 100% is insanely good in the right setup.

[@CmdrTyrael]

@@stevenbrown7629 in my harkonnen game I found this region but with a sietch that removedbuilding upkeep costs for the region. It became an insane profit generating region.

[@ZiBi0077]

Great start. I'm also playing Smugglers on hard and went for the polar region. I used the military militia debuff in an underworld headquarters to counterattack a very persistent Harkonnen AI. Thanks again Potato.

[@nikoladd]

Player: Killing this many units this early's got to cripple his economy... AI: Cheat mode still on.

[@observer3887]

Just finished my harkonnan run. I found them very enjoyable when you play them right. I went full military tech for command points and spice production for the economy. Racked up vast amounts of influence to control the council and to access the elite troops it gives. My economy boomed and influence overflowed. Marched my elites in to take whatever I wanted. Raided the freeman caves over and over for vast amounts of money.

[@theonlyleg9822]

Harkinnan was tonnes of fun, my military strategy was spamming our house guards with 2-3 gunners for armour of the main bases, as soon as I maxed out command points and had a good intel stream I had a field day taking down the others aha

[@CmdrTyrael]

Harkonnen for me was kill the smugglers ASAP, assassinate Leto and Nuke the Freman to finish

[@zachwallentine3238]

Just won my first insanity victory as smugglers yesterday. The advisor who gives you plascrete while pillaging really helps smooth out the early game imo

[@cavalyn]

Apparently there is some talk that the Sardukaur already exist in this game and can come if smugglers (maybe others, but only heard smugglers) keep failing to meet bribery quota. They are apparently strong units with an effect that insta-kills any enemy unit on 20% hp or less. Not seen them myself so can't say if it's a rumour or not but seen quite a few ppl mention them.

[@TomGeorgin]

It is true. Only for Smugglers. Need to miss 3 payments.

[@parkerconnolly2484]

Game is still in early access the could be in the games files

[@Ben-jv2ll]

I’ve 100% definitely seen them in game, whilst I was playing as another faction. I had wondered where they can from/what produced them, so thanks for this post!

[@gutsthe100manslayer]

I’ve seen them as well. They’re are like a plain greyish brownish color

[@Guy-m8m]

Also seen once! Big stack, and tough, v. mean looking...

[@TheyCalledMeT]

little hint, trade is insanely powerful. especialy when you barely miss a goal like spice-tax/bribe

[@0_Body]

Potato: They really don't seem to like me Also Potato: Thanks for the free stuff

[@Lokrio9]

Dude, don't forget the counter-inteligence, please. And thx for the gameplay videos, you convinced me to buy the game 😀

[@unknown23hornet22]

there is a hidden filter that shows the wind speed on the map for each hex. Press I in game to enable it.

[@frodothanos8440]

This is a well made game, but I want to see a story campaign based on the originals.

[@MysticT]

Love the blue eyed potato

[@morgansgames]

Potato: "Why are they attacking me so much?!?" Me: "You took the center of the map. So..." ;D

[@Seedmember]

This game looks more interesting the more I see about it. Still it feels silly to see the Fremen interact with the Landsraad and even use their troops 😂 Imo they should remove them entirely from the Landsraad mechanic and give them something unique. Maybe something with sietches voting on a certain buff, or demanding a certain mission be done otherwise you get a malus, for example destroying a harvester, raiding a village, etc.

[@theorixlux]

i think they're going for a liet kyens kind of freemen rather than the 'hostile natives' vibes.

[@cavalyn]

tbf they don't get any votes at all - cannot get any as far as I could tell when I played. The only way they can cast votes is by using influence, which I suppose represents them bribing neutrals in the house to vote their way. Fremen also can't build a lot of things - including airfields, fuel depots, water extractor on the polar sink and more. They get some other stuff to make up for it, most of which makes them killy - like they can get a +5% power for every fuel natural resource they build a "ceremonial cave" on top of, and their spice extractors never summon worms because it's people on foot using the fremen walk and not a big ass robot making vibrations

[@TheSweetSpirit]

@@theorixlux Yeah, I imagine.

[@aesemon5392]

@@theorixlux true but the suggested mechanic sounds great to me. Helps give a unique feel to the civ.

[@douglascampbell9809]

It's It’s feh-DIE-kin according to author Frank Herbert. It's not surprising they are crazy strong. They are the Fremen's guerrilla fighters, and was later used in reference to Muad'Dib's personal guard-his death commandos.

[@garethsentry]

They are so strong

[@RetroExhibitCollective]

Can’t wait to play this, probably will buy it this week.

[@theonlyleg9822]

Playing along with you it seems! Finished my Harkonnen run 5 minutes ago going to check out the smugglers now!

[@silverams480]

You should unlock sniper asap, look at their skill... Now think about poisoning their reserves... It could also be amazing for eliminating troops passing by, more hegemony, less enemy troops going around, free xp for snipers which would then get even stronger...

[@IMTL2Q]

Not sure if anyone said this yet but the reason you get 20 solari from killing stuff in your territory is because one of your villages passives allows that.

[@brinaldi81]

The Water must Flow! That's how I planned my first Play with smugglers..Was super fun Roleplaying a monopoly on Water Supply.

[@nachoneitzscheese]

Smugglers look super cool! Can't wait to play them next and steal resources from everyone.

[@insomniopolis]

Smugglers look super fun, and I think their playstyle matches yours pretty well. Looking forward to the following installments! :)

[@kuzerov2123]

with smugglers you have special ability with agents that let you capture city with 30% lest authority for 200 intel and 200 solari

[@prplxdino]

22:28 that Attack on Tab-lon fourth season is/was wild

[@mstmst1745]

I’m loving the game so far, i wonder if it will lack longevity in the long run though. Thanks for the videos as always, i learn so much!

[@ARC1701A]

The AI voted settlement development for my smugglers so Harkonnen could attack Sietch Tuek without getting fired on.

[@xeroprotagonist]

Every region has some special trait you can see when you mouse over the little icon on the lower left when you click on it - you were getting those 20 solari bounties in combat because of that, I think. Also it looks like you keep missing the events that pop up and flash on the upper left part of the screen - be careful with that, some of those can hurt you a lot if you don't respond to them. The other icon in the upper left is affected by your spice bribes - if you pay the bribe as smugglers you gain an influence income, Fremen get more Authority, and Atreides and Harkonnen get Landsraad standing from paying spice taxes. If you miss the payment, though, bad things happen.

[@martinxyz]

I have been waiting for this :D

[@AnAngelineer]

I think they should make a wink to the old Dune 2 game and call these guys the Ordos. They would not be the same as the originals, but it would be fun. "Smugglers" just has so little personality as a faction name...

[@enigma8301]

agree

[@theorixlux]

can't say I've played the games, but i don't think ordos is a thing in the original Dune unlike the smugglers... that's likely the reasoning behind it.

[@garethwyndham6772]

@@theorixlux I believe that the Ordos were a house of the Landsraad that was mentioned once in passing in the books (along with a bunch of other minor houses) but never actually appeared in the story. No hint was given about their personality or reputation. Westwood just picked them because they wanted a third faction and Ordos was easy to pronounce.

[@mr.vercotti9509]

Hey potato man, have you considered making gameplay videos on the new Corrino faction?

[@ManTheMaker]

I'm playing my first game on insane, as the Smugglers, and went with the pillaging advisor. Rushed for snipers and then the unique tech that removes pillaging annex bonus and have been just constantly pillaging. I'm doing quite well so far, more or less matching the ai in hegemony (we're all around 3-5k). Let's see if I can sustain this, though I'm pretty scared as the Harkonnen border me and have House Guards already.

[@ecbrown6151]

I came to the same conclusion about the Lansraad vote. Everything in one otherwise you risk not having any pass in your favor.

[@vesperflute9030]

Loving the initial water strategy. Let's see where this leads!

[@vesperflute9030]

That Fremen aggression, holy bananas. What difficulty is this on? It seems that you need 2 permanent squads so you can always have a reserve force.

[@andersstensson]

Potato never builds what he says he is going to build in a city… it drives me insane!

[@M0M0117]

Potato likes to talk himself out of a good idea. Lol

[@M0M0117]

Dam what a good start

[@DividedStates]

Sandworms are way too easy to avoid IMO.

[@zeshoot84]

11:08 Is this my phone's problem or You've tweaked scaling in game files or it's straight up bug? Research panel seems overlapping screen and far right techs are kinda off the visual range a bit? P.s same with 20:20 and landsraad guard vote. Can't see all options on the screen. They disappearing at the bottom of the screen

[@gunnervi]

I think you got unlucky with the village placement. None of your villages are within missile range of each other (though you could have taken Yarekh which is range of Nun-nah). But you could have had Tablon, Runim, and Aidanim all in a triangle, which would have made your villages very easy to defend, especially if you took Aidanin from the Fremen

[@feeblemind]

i think people said it in your hark playthu but you expand way to fast. You should build stuff up before you start going out expanding everywhere. its why you keep running into problems

[@moremileyplease4387]

Feels wrong to attack the free men, I mean fremen. In Civ6, no one is the good guy based on past history, but saying the future will be the same is depressing. Civ handled this by battling aliens in the future.

[@robjohnson3095]

Yesterday I Smugly won, and I totally missed the underworld button agh... They seem the weakest militarily (although that sniper unit is neato), so grabbing the pole is pretty daring. Speaking of, the water related council position requires 200 water production, so you need to keep making wind traps to get it!

[@procsorted]

Petra rush?

[@Hyppetrain]

I wanted to ask why you always start with training a second Ornhihopter? I dont feel like Im in such a rush of exploring everything to need to have 2 scouts from the start of the game, seems like a waste of early recources to me

[@Yacovo]

Thanks for the video

[@chrisbrooks6965]

Love to figure out how to play this game but looks so confusing

[@onurkiliccioglu]

what does intel do?

[@paveljelinek772]

2:26 north eastern? You thought north western yes?

[@teambellavsteamalice]

Interesting faction! You do like to play with dangerously low stocks of spice and money, I'd never let them get below 500 or so (I'm a hoarder). What happens if you partially fail a tax/bribe, is it not too bad? Now you have Landsraad standing, will you be losing that if you miss any more? The underground bases are awesome. Can you build them anywhere you explored, or only bordering your territory?

[@garethsentry]

You either make the bribe or you don't there is no partial. Missing it increases how much you need to pay and gives you a debuff....dont miss your payments

[@teambellavsteamalice]

@@garethsentry The debuff disappeares after a while, but I think I saw Landsraad standing dropping rapidly. Not sure how much was due to taxes and if there is any way to regain it...

[@IvanKala]

For House Ordos!!!

[@parkerconnolly2484]

I tried playing them but lost because the other 3 factions voted for 30% water upkeep increase

[@theorixlux]

isn't that good for you? potato as smugglers, had a higher water difference than the factions. that would've given you a very strong comparative advantage

[@parkerconnolly2484]

@@theorixlux yeah not good for me because of my starting position

[@craigcollings5568]

Late to this but very good.

[@Zeroseraph]

God it so annoying that you don't put at least 2 agents in counter intel you always get hit with thing that could have been avoided with agents in counter intel.

[@niasboiii]

May I ask where you are born? Just curious about your accent. Cheers.

[@TheAlienAmongYou]

Game looks so awesome but since it's real-time, I probably won't play it. I suck at turn-based games, I'll suck even more at RT ones. haha

[@oyuyuy]

What's up with the Hegemony-obsession? Crafts Workshops seem like an obvious money drain to me, a detriment your development. Besides, you'll get Hegemony simply by existing and thriving anyway, it's not like you need to chase it actively.

[@M0M0117]

Yeah it seems like a noon trap to me, better off making a building that goes directly with your build or at least a defensive building of some sort.

[@vovasyhin7219]

Dune as a series never clicked with me, i found the original show boring as hell, and the games are no different.

[@waitwhat5015]

Omggg 2nd

[@Psycrovv]

This game looks like its ment for dweebs :p

[@creeeepy100]

This game looks and plays is just disgusting.. what a huge fail

[@killtyrant]

First game I played was with the smugs. Very enjoyable.