> bring 300,000 men to the hottest planet in the empire> dress them in thick, restrictive, unarmoured jumpsuits and vision impairing helmets > arm these twin khanjali specialists with two-handed chokutos> gather them outside the worm-proof shield wall in the deadly heat of mid-day sun> get nuked> a third of your men die crushed under the aforementioned worms> survivors are slaughtered by fremen fedaykin because they've been trained with shields and daggers their whole lives and are hardcoded with slow blade penetrates the shield rhetoric, so they're basically fighting in slow motion meanwhile your average desert savage has never heard of a shield emiter and can basically onetap a sardaukar soldier and move to the next one in two seconds> get captured because you threw the match> "As a servant of the imperium you will bow at my feet"What was his fucking problem?
>>201710781The movie did an arguably better job of showing an old, complacent man, grasping for what little power he has left. He represented the cynicism and complacency that got the Sardaukar wiped out, I'm guessing you didnt read the book which I highly reccomend, alot more nuance explaining his actions. It all boils down to ego.
>>201710781He relied on the Great House fleet that was still in orbit. The only thing he didn't expect was Paul's threat to nuke the spice fields.
