Learn Dune in 20 Minutes

Learn from a designer, including advanced rules and many nuances. Then read the rulebook and feel free to ask questions.
0:00 Intro
0:41 Game Overview
2:54 Traitor Cards
3:38 Storm
4:36 Spice Blow & Nexus
5:52 Bidding
8:37 Revival
9:25 Shipping & Movement
11:49 Battle
12:26 Battle Plans
16:33 Spice Collection
17:10 Mentat Pause
17:32 Faction Advantages
18:31 Alliances
19:18 Expansion Factions

[brianshocklee]

Learn Dune in 20 Seconds:

You are in a hot, dusty expanse of desert, with a cardstock menu of options. You look at the menu for a moment, and feel a sharp jolt of agony as someone stabs you in the back. You turn around and see a dead body in a silly suit of space armor holding a bloody knife just before collapsing on the sand.

A shadow passes over you. The last thing you see before the darkness takes you is an old woman who condescendingly says "I knew this would happen. I win."

[Dom-dqru]

My friends and I love this game so much. We play at least twice a month, and have even created house rules to allow every faction to be able to play at the same time XD it makes for some great chaos. Arrakis will always have my heart and be a must play at board game night!

[brandish_]

This is really concise and well delivered :D

Great job

[connorcasey]

This is such a good video!! Me and my bf play this game all the time and this was such a easy way to explain this complex game

[hidden-assets]

@16:15 Just to clarify: if your leader survives a battle, they can be used in a different battle IN THE SAME TERRITORY, but not in a different territory that turn. It's p10 of the rules. It sounds like you are saying the winner of the battle can use a surviving leader elsewhere on the planet.

[motownfreak]

Stellar explanation! We love this game and play all the time, will forward this to our new player who has been playing Emperor to start.

[johnwestendorf]

If you care, the Traitor Cards section is incorrectly named Trader Cards in the timeline. Great video!

[BavarianMotorHead]

Jack, we just played a full base game no expansion, as it was from 2019. We made it through... One main question I have is about Spice and how you get/obtain it. I saw in this video that you do obtain spice in battle if Leaders die. Is that true in my 19base game? We sadly treated the whole game as the only way you get spice is via Spice Blow and winning that region. Am I missing another way everyone gets spice? Thanks!

[oleksaderzybis]

Greeting! We have a question with our player group. Is amount of Treachery cards in a Battle Plan a public info? Or they should be both hidden behind a wheel, so that opponent can't see 'em or lack of?

[darkportents]

This is perfectly timed! I have a 7 player game coming up with two new players

[tabcongarvall]

I'll show this vid to all my new players :)

[Buckbuckbuck]

I'm sorry but we don't play half troops. We just think it's antifun,