Dune Imperium Uprising - React Video | Dune Imperium 2? Direwolf Digital New Game Announcement

Direwolf Digital has announced a new Dune Imperium Stand Alone game! It seems to be releasing end of the year, here is my reaction video and assessment of the mechanics they've added!

A lot of these things are educated guesses! BUT LETS SPECULATE TOGETHER!!

[andrethannhauser]

...those spice-eating spies look spicy

[ben]

The word Wheel when used in a political context is a metaphor for the cycle of power. Political parties take turns taking power. So the card means there are wheels within wheels of political power going on.

[MarcoGrandia]

Thanks Cheeseable for your thoughts. You are extremely quick to make such a profound video with a lot of moving images and stuff. Well done. I am really curious. It looks like there will be cards in this game that you could add to the previous one. It also looks like all the purple spots are connected with lines on the main board. Lets see if Paul Dennen lifts a bit of the curtain soon... best, Marco

[OrangEEverything]

It says IX and Immortality can be used as expansions with this stand alone expansion. I find that interesting.

[felkdav]

I think contracts give the reward if ANY agent is on that spot. It makes sense to balance it like that, otherwise 1st & 2nd position in each round would have a massive advantage (since it wouldn't be beneficial to block the contract spots).

Water will be much harder to get and be more valuable. Stillsuits used to give 1 water and it was a combat space, now the guild spot gives 1 water, which isn't a combat space (so overall it would be worse in the current one). Heighliner doesn't give water, and the only other 2 spots are Sietch (which I think is either a troop and a water IF you have a hook, or the water + that other new symbol) and the solari spender new "rally troops". So I could see players starting with 2 water, otherwise any water generation is going to be crucial.

The High Council spot as I see it will be no longer once per game (it isn't printed on the location), and it will give 2 spice + 1 intrigue + 3 troops on subsequent visits (2nd+).

Solari also harder to find, which could be a bit worrying. I expect the game to be longer than the current 7-8 rounds (maybe 9-10, max 12?), or what you said about the 1st swordmaster costing 8 solari, and the rest 6.

Sandworms will 100% have some extra effect outside of the 3 base strength. Otherwise they are pretty bad value.

Overall at first glance: resource generation will be key in this new version (water + solari + spice), so any card with that ability is going to be good.

[dennisbabych]

It would be interesting to see 6 players game :)

[paullumsden]

Wheels within wheels.

Releases within releases.

[kughli]

Thanks for this interesting news! It looks like we will also get a (breakable?) shield wall… maybe also connect to the worms somehow?

[MrRegaltv]

All the faction spaces have changed for the most part. Still suits no longer fibes water

[duneimperiumitalia]

Great video, and also so soon! Thank you!

[andrethannhauser]

Good to hear that the expansions (Rise of IX + Immortality) are compatible.

If you split the story by the first game being movie #1 and the second game being movie #2, IMO Immortality fits better to movie #2 anyway.

The things you add to the game using Immortality doenst have a lot to do with the story of part1.
Also with the Tleilaxu-track being really abstract (up to arbitrary bonusses) I dont add that expansion to every play while Rise of IX is an auto-in.

[The_Red_Comet]

Interesting thing I noticed: A few of the cards shown have the starting deck arrow indicator, but also have an Atreides icon in the top right corner. Will we have asymmetrical starting decks? Or perhaps it's for the 3v3 mode teams?

[chriscarton]

Thanks for this video its clever indeed.

[OzymandiasOw]

I don't like the idea of dropping all the expansions content

[brendathorpe]

I think that desert call card might be replacing dune, the desert planet

[TheOJN]

Wouldn't 4 player game with 2 vs 2 mod have more sense?

[HNAROSES]

I know I'm going to get the game, new mechanics, but I hate that we have to buy the whole game again, they should have done a new expansion for this.

[TheOldMan-]

A 2.0 version and they didn't change that ugly as hell board? Seriously?

[draco]

Board looks almost the same. This is not good imo. Repurposing the same board art is going to cause brand confusion.