I like Dune, I like northgard, both games are RTS with some 4x elements, Moreso in Dune. I also love conquest mode in both games as by late game, all bonuses you stacked up makes game fun.

>>2317394
Stag/Atreides for the win

>>2317398
>Atreides
>>no pillage allowed

>>2317012
>>Also dune bread I guess.
You mean
>>spice bread
Why do I have to keep making the spice jokes in every DUNE thread?

>>2317012
wtf is that
>house ecaz

please no, thank god I have Emperor and Dune Spice Wars.

>>2317398
Why would you ever play anyone but vernius or smugglers? Serious question.

>>2317650
Atreides late game economy makes them fucking scary, also they're troops are one of strongest in game if they fight on home turf.

>>2318902
I mean you're not wrong but everyone has a scary lategame economy in their way. Thing is smugglers will get there really freaking fast and your lategame economy is also their lategame economy. Also freecompany base snipe is a menace. And speaking of lategame turtling unless you both EMP and nuke vernius at the same time their mechs scale and trade insanely well. Plus there's the obfuscate dick move.

Personally I think the absolutely dogshit vs AI and "campaign" modes did this game no favours at all.
The most fun is making and breaking impromptu treaties and alliances all the while working to backstab each other because Arrakis can have only one ruler.
The AI simply cannot engage in this kind of dynamic bullshit when it runs off pure math that leaves it susceptible to agreeing to a trade deal that will instantly lose them the game because you just dangled 2 billion spice in front of them.

Fuck house carrino, it's ok when I do it.

>>2319069
>Fuck house carrino, it's ok when I do it.
That'll do Paul, that'll do.

>>2319069
>Personally I think the absolutely dogshit vs AI and "campaign" modes did this game no favours at all.
well yeah I think it was clear that SP in this game would be a subpar experience compared to MP

>>2319090
nta but I honestly enjoyed the campaign

>>2319108
I still wished we had Story mode like in Northgard.

what's you favorite faction?

>>2322810
the one without niggers in it

>>2322810
Vernius hands down. Unless you're fucked in the first 10 minutes you can do whatever the fuck you want while saying no fun allowed.

>>2322810
Harkkonen since they seem to have the most bully potential.

>>2322810
I like most of the factions:
>Atraides: powerful economy and units, you can annex good regions w/o connecting them, while having quick airfield network.
>Harkonnen: oppresion gives economic power on par to atreides, while also giving extra stuff killing off rebels, you can sustain attrition warfare as you get stuff by losing units.
>Corrino: you're rewarded by developing flower around your bases. giving other factions sardaukars to fight wars for you is extra thematic.
factions I'm undecided about.
>Smugglers. late game economy seems to be stronger than atreides or harkonnen, but all out war is not theire strong suit as they cant fight prolonged wars as good as atreides/harkonnen/corrino. also fighting means you're losing your underground installations, which can be major setback to your economy.
>Fremen: on paper they are good at fighting, moreso than other factions, but in practice, you just don't have that late game economy engine to feed endless warfare.
Factions I dont have much experiences with.
Ecaz: i dunno. they seem like corrino as in you have constant RNG regarding your starting tiles.
Vernius/Ixians: they look cool, but i haven't played as much as them. they seem to have knowledge advantage.

>>2323307
Problem with artds is they can't pillage, and that's a lot of potential cash not available. Hark armies are fantastic - until they're not, same as economy. If you can punish their armies basically killing themselves and if you're say a smuggler and completely fuck their militia so they lose to rebels or at least don't produce as much while getting zero effort cash from their armies, and rebels dying... Yeah. Corrino was nerfed from God-tier to meh. Smugglers meanwhile get to snowball like no one else while their armies are only vulnerable to melee rushes by say fremen. Vernius is all-round broken as long as you don't stand inside EMP.

>>2317012
>we want the Arcane audience