House Vernius ASSASINS | Vernius, Corrino, Ecaz & Atreides - Dune Spice Wars

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[@ebenezer659]

I think with house vernius you should think of your patent more as a way to regulate the path others take and consider the money a secondary effect. For example, by putting a patent on early military tech, you can slow down early aggression. Early military already drains your economy putting a 1k hurdle on the tech hurts and on top of that it's 500 gold less of troopers banging on your doorstep

[@turinRTS]

Love it!

[@ebenezer659]

That's really smart! You could do the same with the statecraft tree to prevent assasination defenses. I think there's a lot of trolling potential.@@Immortalits

[@kradwolf5719]

I agree. You get the ability to skip a whole research requirement, I see no reason why you wouldn't grab an early military tech skip to stop others from pushing hard early aggression.

[@kradwolf5719]

Asking Ecaz for help after 99% assassination is crazy! I love it.

[@Grifthin]

Loving your dune content man - it's so hard to find anything on KZbin about dune, your and Daevok stuff is awesome.

[@Corusame]

100% it really surprises me how little this game gets covered by content creators. To me its one of the best RTS games of recent times.

[@ShulbyShulberton]

Was a fun game! My mental was drained after multiple engagements ping-ponging between you and the Atriedes, biggest thing I've taken from this game is to be more aware of villages near Rally Points during assassination's. Gg's and let the spice flow!

[@CaptainLanky26]

I'm sorry I funded your downfall my Emperor 😭

[@telamatros]

Getting a single rail drone as part of your first units I find really ups your kill speed while not costing too much since they shouldn’t be getting damaged.

[@Patton1944]

I love how Turin always puts in exclamation marks when he chats with other players

[@gentleman_menace]

Arrakis is big, you have to shout!

[@jayyrod1]

Spice wars is on sale right now on steam for anyone interested. Ive been debating all week about

[@SirAwesomeOpossum]

I just committed and got the game last night

[@CaptainLanky26]

Don't debate! Smash that purchase button!

[@Corusame]

I would easily pay double for the amount of enjoyment this game has provided me. Its awesome, buy it!

[@davidsiewert425]

Love the "Nooo Anakin I'm to weak"

[@sajedjalil497]

Really fun game. I should say it is very underrated for some reasons. And house Vernius seems really interesting. Thank you for sharing such a wonderful stream.

[@Boerta]

When you have that advisor, try to mix building types in the districts of the main base. If you are getting lots of red buildings to begin with, spread them in different rows, so you get more knowledge (from the advisor) AND a bonus to research speed. You can get 9 knowledge from main base on top of 3 x tier one bonuses for the three relevant techs (60% total?). Later on when you have most of the important techs, you can swap the buildings around to get the tier 2/3 district bonuses, at no cost besides time.

[@e2pii1]

Yes, that's a really good tips for Bolig Avati. And I'm not sure, but if you got 50 % off buildings later in the game, can you dismantle the main base building for a full refund and build it again immediately for half price (only costing time, as you said)?

[@MySuperPowerIsITouchGrass]

Started playing for the first time 2 days ago, and I love this game. Now I need to git gud so I can play online lol.

[@KarlDRGgg]

I started today 😅

[@Bobojaxx]

Just started two days ago as well and trying to do the same haha

[@liamwhytcross1034]

Aye same haha

[@jayaskme2942]

Me too, been playing the Ai campaign trying to get ready for human opponents. Can't wait to have Turin surprise assassinate me in like 5 min 😂

[@sandercohen9712]

I want to start, but my gaming to-do list is so large at this point I can't rightly say when I have the time.

[@kradwolf5719]

The interactions between you and Lanky is gold. I never get these wholesome interactions in games. Making me want to buy Dune even more now but it's so different from the Dune I played as a kid.

[@PageIsYourGod]

Ooof. Been loving the development of Dune. Started out with everything devolving into a beautiful slugfest as everyone figured out the game. Now we have a**a**inations, runs on the stockmarket, robot men. It's all just fantastic. Well maybe not the lag.

[@majormoolah5056]

Vernius benefits from the Embassy a lot more than the other factions. If you manage to get an Economic treaty with any one player, the Embassy nets you +10% Solari, which is really sweet. You could always give out your AI agents in exchange too.

[@CaptainLanky26]

I can finally find out where that last damn cell was!

[@CaptainLanky26]

Yeah I definitely did not know about the stealth detection building, I thought you could still spot them with ornithopters

[@CaptainLanky26]

Aha! so I DID find all of them! I feel less nooby

[@apoleonschneider]

I'm so happy for you Lanky. To play with Turin and fight like hell ftw was awesome! GG dude!

[@birdsonlybirds8291]

dude you played this game so well! your interactions w turin added some real fun too

[@jacksons9546]

Dude you were nuts. Can we not seek council as we once did had me cackling, suuuper well played

[@niconilo97]

Vernius traveling through time and space instantly, and free man cry in corner x)

[@Corusame]

This was great! so glad you play this awesome game, not many content creators out there covering it which confuses me as I think its one of the best RTS games of recent times.

[@DangerDucking]

seems like for vernius you want to manually check villages at the start to make sure you got the right one rather than have auto explore find goodie huts

[@Xanthate1845]

Pro tip - obfuscate counter intelligence And try to keep as many agents assigned to the faction you're trying to assassinate as possible, as each one increases speed. That's why as your cells get cleared near the end your progress gets slowed so drastically, cuz your agent limit goes down

[@Nodjia]

At 42:00 when you are curious about where the water came from, it's because you lowered the battery cost of mech units. The tech just finished so you got a shitload of water batteries back. Great content btw.

[@e2pii1]

Yeah, sometimes it's quite funny how Turin reacts. I love his content, but he does not pay 100 % attention/know the game 100 %, which is totally OK. Turin: "Energy efficiency is done. (...) How did I get so much water? (...) Did I lose a village that I'm not aware of?" (He has Water batteries.) At least he understood it just a minute or something later :)

[@Koolakoola-ve7sq]

i love spice wars i love turin!

[@dccodyofficial]

Gotta obfuscate counter intel. Also would be cool to see something that gives vernius a temporary (10-15 second) immunity to emp on the mech units. Maybe a hero ability or mission. Because EMP cripples the army so effectively. Only solution ive found is to feign the attack elsewhere then teleport to a boarder with the person your attacking after they popped an EMP in the first spot you hit. Little bit of deception. Teleport is by far my fav ability with them. Always feels glorious. Some creative use cases.

[@Balrog2005]

I'm agree with your strategy to use suboids in the start of the game but you need 1 manpower building from nearly the start and quite soonish another one to reinforce those regions that you control. It's not very assumed for vernius but manpower is quite important in the first phase. Having drones on the start will drain your solaris very quickly when they are fixed after every fight.

[@zhshsG7]

The star wars quotes are the best part if your content man I'm melting here :D

[@Poipledoiple]

There is so much flavor in knowing what people research. I would love to see you use that in politicking 😈🙏🏻

[@bryantato2]

Thanks for the video! Still learning about the game overall. Not sure what you could have done better to cap the assassination. Seems tough

[@wombat4941]

If you obfuscate a tech as Vernius, then you are the only one who can access its dependent techs (you can just skip the prerequisite). So in that game you alone can access Wonders of the Desert. Something to consider.

[@hardcorelace7565]

WAIT WHAT I thought everyone could just skip it I didn't know it locked off the whole tree!

[@NoReasonToAnwser]

You can fork the nodal network?! I thought you could only set up lines going from the S-Vaults. This opens up a world of options for me, I must have misunderstood the ingame descriptions.

[@johlin94]

The Vernius techno-knowledge rush is insane. You can hit 40 knowledge and still be in early game.

[@FatalWay90]

I loved vernius gameplayed will be waiting for more I hope they can balance the emp element like giving you an unique research will make your droids have %50 less damage from the emp it is so broken right now

[@RimeoftheAncientGamer]

Could you Obfuscate CounterIntel? So nobody could have counter intelligence in theory? Assassination Bonanza

[@turinRTS]

Yes!

[@waiphyotun7633]

recently Dune Spice Wars and Dune Imperium - these two games have been top notch ones.

[@Qulize]

3:05 This got me lol

[@jakemaas7806]

SPOILER but honestly I love that you’re willing to post losses. I feel like a lot of channels are worried they’ll get roasted if they upload Ls but this was such a fun match I’m glad we got to see it

[@daevohk]

Great game! Never give up, never surrender on Arrakis

[@davidsiewert425]

7:35 should have bet more to get the landsraad standing, its way to important for Vernius

[@darksteelchaos2309]

I'd be torn between atra, ecaz, and vern if I picked this game up but all the factions are so cool!

[@turinRTS]

DEW IT

[@theniceadmiral8488]

Vernius assasins lets go!

[@ingismasin]

I hope the player base GROW and the ranked become a thing! I dont think there is a game that unique in terms of multiplayer playstyle, I really hope it will get recognized more!

[@edwardfontaine7108]

I think getting Survival Training first right off the bat so you can make your Suboid Soldiers cost zero upkeep as soon as possible is a good Idea

[@mrcobrabubbles6889]

I wish vernius had a way to like other factions just turn off agent actions in the territory, cuz any faction with emp just wins

[@Boerta]

If you are trying to assassinate, you should obfuscate the tech that opens the third counter intel slot

[@SirAwesomeOpossum]

I just got this game last night. i hope Turin runs some tourneys soon so i can show off how new i am lol

[@niconilo97]

Do you guys know why ppl say fremen is bug ? is don't really see any ?

[@Sligui28]

Have the firemen been balanced for this update?

[@hardcorelace7565]

Apparently, he said so in one of his tournaments

[@Passonator11]

What do you think guys? Will we get house Tleilaxu too? We have just folded space from Ix... Yes? How was your journey? Many machines on Ix...new machines...

[@Ireyn100]

so we now have archduchess, duke, earl, and baron. so what's left?

[@hardcorelace7565]

We have emperor too

[@pauld9730]

I can't stop watching these Dune videos. Someone please send help.

[@VortexSpice]

What a game! gg

[@user-di1vr9st6m]

Great match! But it was real pain watchin how much solary you lost because of spice storage cap (32:58)

[@studentt6064]

Once you hit the cap the game autosells all your spice production (you can see the bar is full yellow indicating that is what is happening, even though his ratio of production/sell is not set like that). So he's not really losing much unless you really want to micro how much spice you're selling if you see the forecast for the next harvest is much better.

[@niconilo97]

Maybe you want to split up your army to reduce the effectiveness of an emp bomb Instead of one big blob attack multiple place at the same time and kite their main army

[@Zamandu]

Sure, but then you wont get the huge heals

[@Boerta]

It looks like you didn't replace agents on Ecaz as they got captured, slowing down your assassination? I think you can also use the AI drones to keep progression up. Once it's started, information level is irrelevant.

[@Boerta]

Hm, I guess you couldn't replace them since your cells were gone :/

[@brucebanner5247]

great game!!!!!

[@popopopoool]

Bruh that 99 is so blue balls

[@Amputret]

Well, he was informed it had failed at 93%.

[@leftrom9738]

So far it seems that Vernius' only strength, is the assassination one. Armywise is weak (EMP hurts many of its units), and has no inherent choam/hedge tools. Yeah, they can do some cool tricks with patents/obfuscate but they're not game-winning imo. I believe Vernius loses with any other faction on 1v1 (with no other players left in game); if you'd be left with Atreides in the last game, I can't see a way you could win this. The meta will certainly shift from other people/factions playing against Vernius, to counterintelligence and then it'd much harder to assassinate them.

[@Hargrovius]

Worms seem to be completely broken this patch.

[@SuspishFish]

Vernius Assassination = Getting Canceled Online

[@davidsiewert425]

Vernius seems like the weakest faction of all

[@astontjoeng3444]

I fuckin hate this game cuz I spent over 1400 hours on the game just to get off and dance around the economy..

[@Roosteroflaw]

What

[@SlayerOfIncels]

what do the assassin units do i never thought they would be as important as your gameplay made them to be?

[@hardcorelace7565]

The assassin's have 3 abilities: 1) stealth 2) one shot a fleshy unit then die 3) resets assassination progress multiplier back to 100% when you send it to an information cell of someone you're assassinating