Emperor - Battle for Dune - House Ordos - Resistance is Futile

Combined Mission Briefings of House Ordos .. from the computer game "Emperor - Battle for Dune" The mission briefings of the attack on the Atreides and Harkonnen Home Worlds are both included.
Well .. well .. just what IS Locutus of Borg doing there? The house Ordos units can be challenging to handle .. especially against shielded units. The stumble on the end where the Mentat refers to the Ghola as "Emperor Shaddam IV" is .. interesting. Personally this house remains my favorite. Although .. contrary to Dune 2000 .. it is by a small margin.
And as a detail .. the Ordos at least have better taste in their choice of Mentats. An armored nose also makes the Sardaukar General more hilarious than imposing.
I recommend playing with this house first if you play this game for the first time.

[@elgusaniiiodeljuego6823]

I used to consider Atreides the most relatable house in regards to their resemblance to modern day society. However, after hearing the ordos mentat talking repeatedly about your contract and eventual termination, I changed my mind😅

[@lf2208]

I always thought that they got a really powerful actor to play the Sardaukar General. I mean, for such a small role - in a video game - that is a performance IMO.

[@Alkonium]

She doesn't have the eyebrows to be a Mentat.

[@VideoMatoran]

But She does have the brain. That does count, right?

[@nestcanz]

Paul Atreides was too trained as mentat.

[@f1shze4lot]

In dune 2000 mentat didn't had any eyebrows and he beats her any day of the week without stepping out of his chair

[@KrautGoesWild]

What´s the Tleilaxu´s favourite drink? Goca Ghola!

[@LordOfGilneas]

You deserve more likes for that line mate XD

[@DevilMaster]

Awesome game, but there's one thing it lacks... A SEQUEL! House Ordos even provides a hook for a sequel: a ghola of the emperor, conditioned to them, sitting on the throne. But what if the ghola broke free of the conditioning and wanted to actually rule the empire? So he executes an attack against House Ordos with his Sardaukar warriors, as well a Sardaukar prototype, enhanced with Ixian technologies. The sequel starts: an FPS, similar to Command & Conquer: Renegade, titled "Dune: Sardaukar".

[@user-us7kb8ml7g]

I know I am very late but you have given an excellent story line.

[@Hyporama]

the more I watch Dune, the more I see where other sci fi movies got their ideas

[@duvipearson6251]

That is because it existed before all of them

[@eddy_malouempereur_du_cong6536]

Dune is to sci fi what lord of the rings is to fantasy

[@cruelangel7737]

Very well said.

[@someguy1747]

House Ordos are what the Ferengi should have been in Star Trek: TNG Avarcious, Calculative and Dangerous instead of Comic-Relief. A more Nuanced view of the Ferengi in DS9 was okay all things considered.

[@junesilvermanb2979]

Ferengi en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi

[@thorboysen3318]

the same emperor as in Dune 2000? Great to see him again...!

[@danyleon4870]

Only a Ghola. But it show that the Ordos are the winner from Dune 2000.

[@poryg5350]

​@@danyleon4870Not really. The ghola has been made from genetic material harvested by Bene Tleilax and purchased by Ordos. Considering that all three houses kill the Emperor in Dune 2000, it could be anyone who won. My guess is, the race you play as has won, since at the beginning of the campaign all three houses replace their last commander due to territorial losses.

[@TerminallyChill85]

I like how they don't even bother making the actual Executrix Emperor

[@teslashark]

Too much work, just prop up the old guy

[@someguy1747]

There are perks of being a "Shadow Dictator". It is the Modus Operandi of the Insidious Ordos to after all.

[@CastelDawn]

damn she's fine

[@waterhead1029]

You got girlfriend Geidi Prime? Me so Harkoney.

[@TibusHeth]

I miss fmv in games

[@levitan7112]

i like the male voice of the executrix, he sounds more decent the rest of the hive mind.

[@zannaifacedancer5915]

The executrix's voice is hateful!

[@proximity037]

Yep. Standard language of war. Many voices in one channel

[@chichiboypumpi]

house harkonnen patterned after the nazis and the old soviet union house ordos after prc and nokor in the next Dune movie

[@kkoz66]

20 years later and still no sequel 😢

[@ringmansos]

I've read nearly every Dune book, but this is the first time I've seen this stuff. Pretty cool. I didn't visualize the book like seen here. I like it.

[@lostn65]

Westwood was so cheesy but amusing nonetheless.

[@joshuazhao]

so I guess the last few moment of the cutscenes are signaling another sequal, if Westwood didn't get shut down.

[@knifeyonline]

+Joshua0531 nothing to do with westwood getting shut down or more aptly getting bought by EA. they just swapped out spice for tiberium, same game, no royalties to pay ;)

[@DevilMaster]

+Joseph Stott Then, why do Dune 2000 and this game exist? C&C came out in 1995, Tiberian Sun in 1999. This game came out in 2001.

[@knifeyonline]

DevilMaster because it wasn't different enough to warrant two separate games.

[@petercselik5674]

I like this game so much. Its also really well bringing the first David Lynch directed Dune movie theme really well. That movie was catastrophic but gave a really decent environment for these games :) Also one of the best RTS game of all time... :D (so bad its forgotten like the Sacrifice what also one of the best I ever played)

[@Alkonium]

Most of those traits are unique to the movie, with no basis in the books. Also, I don't remember Thufir Hawat being psychotic in the movie.

[@someguy1747]

I think your mistaking the Harkonnen Mentat Yanich Kobal played by Late Vincent Schiavelli for Thufir Hawat as the later is Atriedes. The Atriedes Mentat in "Emperor: Battle for Dune" is Kolinar Koltrass played by Late Nicholas Worth.

[@Zennofobic]

i thought House Ordos had produced a dalek at first

[@someguy1747]

The Executrix Council does give me Davros vibes.

[@proximity037]

Damn yes

[@projectorraven]

Little bit of green spill there...might need to eat in of the edges a smidgen...

[@andy7666]

"Let me die!" Kudos - a very nice touch..

[@ericvulgate]

this is pretty great.

[@rixille]

Based Sardukar.

[@hammerhead8318]

0:30 Is really funny.

[@ffalloutgirl]

00:40 fate worse then death.

[@andrewthedukeMK2]

House Ordos is the Dune counterpart of these Commands and Conquer factions: GLA (Generals), Rising Sun (Red Alert), Scrin(Tiberium continuity) Let's examine, what do the Ordos and the GLA have in common? Their color is green, both factions rely on cunning strategies and sneaky tactics, stealth, sabotage, chemical weaponry. The Ordos, the Empire of The Rising Sun, and the Scrin? They are all mysterious 3rd factions, more technologically advanced than their foes. All 3 are trying to take advantage of their enemies' squabbles.

[@someguy1747]

Don't forget that just like House Atriedes and Harkonnen has origins in Mediterranean and Slavic nations Greece and Russia, respectively, The Ordos has roots in East Asia presumably China or Mongolia similar to the East Asian Japanese Empire of the Rising Sun.

[@Marinealver]

I like the other Mentat better. Take some tips from the Tech Priest of Mars, flesh is weak, it must be tempered by the Machine.

[@Mandemon1990]

It bugs me that the sound and video do not sync, but are not enough out of sync to say it's obvious... It's few milliseconds of out of sync.

[@sociopathicregret]

this is what happens if mitt romney is elected

[@Koronia047]

Anyone here played Warframe? The Ordos remind me a lot of the Corpus.

[@vonshroom2068]

That should be the other way around this game predates warframe by a decade ;)

[@devilsmessanger]

she is teilaxu bred as I read somewhere,not typical one like Harkonen/Atreidies have

[@Unit-3475]

In fact, the Tleilaxu did grow custom-made mentats, and Peter is one of those Twisted Mentats.

[@henrikljungstrand2036]

​@@Unit-3475Yes, and Piter is a mentat of House Harkonnen. They also deal with the Bene Tleilaxu.

[@Unit-3475]

@@henrikljungstrand2036 It's definitely Harkonnen style, a custom-made man-device.

[@proximity037]

Hmm

[@sedjetra]

Turn the subtitles on for full experience XD

[@thefreshwaterpirate]

Faviure is not an option

[@sektorace]

I wonder if there is a mod into wrath of kane. All faction of emperor of battle for dune

[@lostn65]

The green screen is so obvious. The reflected lighting on the actors is not in the background. Looks very cheaply produced. But that's why we love Westwood RTSes.

[@Imperialistic82]

I think the Executrix should have been the mentat. Because it's just a support creature or the real rulers that is in kind of mental coma.

[@WulfieLove]

Ahhhhh I hate how only the Atreides can repair Q__Q

[@user-ed1xj9zc7w]

WulfieLove every Ordos tank is regenerating

[@chuuska1972]

I miss this game :(

[@EDIITOR]

I preferred edrico as the mentat

[@proximity037]

Edrik0

[@chromxrobinandcorrinxcamil9031]

Best house.

[@chichiboypumpi]

gozer is the executrix speaker?

[@Appolyon99]

Funny story behind that. A duly-designated representative of the City, County and State of New York, ordered her to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to her place of origin (or to the next convenient parallel dimension). After that Gozer was left with few job prospects so took what she could get.

[@mikegallant811]

Subcreatures! Gozer the Gozerian! Gozer the Destructor!Volguus Zildrohar the Traveler has come! Choose and perish!

[@proximity037]

Xd

[@Crazycode666]

For House Ordos !

[@rifleman101]

15:00 Inconcivable!!!

[@KrautGoesWild]

The one from 1984? I watched it at the cinema. On my 9th B-Day :D !

[@jpanda1342]

Would be interesting to know who owns the rights now with westwood gone..

[@suchiuomizu]

They don't exist anymore because EA bought them. Now whether EA still has any rights Dune games is another question.

[@Stigmableedingblack]

FLIED LICE

[@Antimanele104]

House Atreides - NATO House Harkonnen - Russia/Soviet Union Houee Ordos - China

[@henrikljungstrand2036]

Sure! 😂 And all three are outright evil in their real government (regardless of facades such as visible "rulers") - those in real life Earth i mean! All three conspire and cooperate behind the scenes, while pretending to compete and fight, in order to fool their own populations, in order to mentally and emotionally enslave these perpetually by lies and fear. Just like in Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-four, with Oceania (NATO/British Empire), Eurasia (Russian Federation/Soviet Union) and East Asia (Chinese Communist Party/Mandate of Heaven). A truly prophetic book, that one, or a manual for the ruling elites perhaps. Dune - Arrakis (the book), that one is also prophetic i think, or at least a metaphor for how our world and humanity has been evolving.

[@sdsurfers7957]

The axtol tanks ended up being women wombs hooked up to machine's.

[@shoopoop21]

I bet you feel silly.

[@jpanda1342]

Thats mostly due to them being invented by westwood.

[@Sniper7806]

NO ALSO ORDOS AUTOMATIC

[@KrautGoesWild]

You should see the amount of makeup that my wife puts on everyday! She could be the brightest mentat of them all and nobody would notice xD xD xD !

[@Orca8472]

The victory scene for the Ordos is really weak. One person saying "yeey, we rock!"

[@Orca8472]

He he :) Well said :)

[@FATALITY07RUS]

Does this continues the story of Dune 2000?

[@toramaru2490]

nope, its a continuation of war of assasin. which kinda dune 2000 but with non of three houses wins and the emperor still dead

[@DJEylisium]

I prefer the Dune 2000 Ordos Mentat

[@thegreenreaper6660]

"We see the whole of it. Three Great Armies in ruin. The Padishah Emperor camps between the Baron and the Duke. But he is weak and hate will be strong! We see our mercenaries are restless. They would just as soon kill us as kill fór us. We must be prepared to slaughter our own! We see Atreides attacking the Fremen. We see Harkonnen lift the Death Hand! Wé see the Padishah Emperor as the root of it! His Palace múst be destroyed! Our Saboteur will see to it! Three Great Armies in ruin.... The Ordos control Arrakis! The Spice! The Universe! FINISH IT! THAT IS..... THE MISSION!"

[@proximity037]

Other class

[@arizowan543]

yea.

[@caleyyouhavtyuiopiy]

Why you have the app

[@maidenjapan66]

To bad they're non cannon :(

[@rosemarybloddy7442]

FUCKING EPIC!

[@settenovetre]

Too. Damn. Cheesy.

[@XxkoruptshunxX]

is ordos cannon in the series?

[@suchiuomizu]

No, they were invented for this game series.

[@Unit-3475]

Although they are mentioned in the Encyclopedia of Dune, approved by Herbert, there is no specific information in the canon on them, except perhaps the coat of arms.

[@eigokudemangaka]

No, No FPS games in the dune series please. Besides Westwood was bought up by EA and I don't think that EA has any interest in contuing this series, let alone doing it any favours. And there is the baby man worm/ birth....thing that would have been a part of the next game.

[@SurelyYewJest]

How would anyone FPS such a series anyways? Maybe with the sound weapons from the 1984 movie, but that's not canon from the books. Dune is just not a series that lends itself easily to video gamification. You MIGHT be able to get something RPGish out of it, but like the Dune 2 RTS, you basically have to take the lore and scramble it up a bunch to make things work.

[@vladimirtchuiev2218]

AFAIK the license doesn't belong to EA now, it returned to the Herbert family.

[@Self-LuminousRed]

Crowd is irrelevant.

[@Chris-kt9yq]

Edric O and Ammon overcome Atani. Atani's acting is horrible and disconnected me with the Ordos. Edric O was by the far best Mentat with his flawless emotion of briefing

[@proximity037]

😅

[@PlasmateIncognito]

This new dune movie is looking weird

[@TraceurMikado]

'' i am an amateur dublicant

[@user-nt7oo5bo2o]

в игре еще ничего а фильм ужасов

[@thebengoblin]

EA

[@fjccommish]

Good grief, the acting in this is awful.

[@calin4thewin]

Damn they look cheap. Dune is awesome, these scenes just doesn't do the series any justice.

[@mailusphoenix8894]

Doesnt matter how many times ppl say "dune books are great", their live action adaptations are cringy as fuck to the point they make Defiance look sophisticated and intelligent. I can't take it, this is the worst trash i´ve ever seen.

[@vileluca]

Care to update your claim?

[@dickydoodles2423]

@@vileluca Conditioned by the graphic novels take on the whole thing... Still one the most visually striking journeys depicted in as "comics"... So it's not that Dune is terrible, is that none of the adaptations have ever paid justice to the one version that still stands the test of time, so you can all it "subjective", it can very well be... But that's my hot take, saying that Moebius was an unmatched visionary, and everything else falls short. You ask to care to update my claim, after the movie... The movie is fine in a vacuum... It still not there, so sanitized... high productions and oddball designs dont go well along... they reminded me of the X-men, everyone dressed in boring black skinsuits that trim any lovehandles from the cast... just boring, like it's afraid it would lose the audience if any idea is a bit too original, it plays it very safe. Updated then?

[@f1shze4lot]

So that means the books are bad? What?

[@danyleon4870]

@@dickydoodles2423 Is it because lack of Paul Attreides in the most iteration?. I recall there were at least a single game about him.

[@SIL3X898]

dont like