Emosh73

This can't be right!!!!! I have 64 megs on my card yet it runs sluggish with many units on the map!!! this is so strange!!!

Hi there, Here are my specs.... Tbird 1.4 Asus A7M-266 512 megs of crucial DDR pc2100 Evil Kyro2 by Hercules Hercules GTXP sound card 20 gig IBM GXP Asus 50 speed cdrom Windows 2k sp2 Dir X 8.0a Would you believe that the game still runs sluggish under some circumstances!!! I thought with my set up why not max out everything right? I did and yet the game takes long to load!!! When I have many units on the ground and give the command the whole mass formation to move it gets sluggish for awhile!! with shadows turned all the way up it gets real sluggish!!! so I set it to medium and it runs ok. The game also kicks me to desk top randomly!!! So what the heck type of specs does it take to run this game proper I wonder? has anyone got the game to run smooth with maxed out graphics? are these issues normal?

I have been playing the game for a month now and so far the Harkonnen really suck in my opinion. The Ordos without a doubt really kick butt!! They are my fav house right now!!! Follwed by the Atreides. 1) The Buzzsaw is reasonably ok and is good for spice fields and infantry. Could be a little faster though as compared to other units. 2) The flame tank is too slow!! Ordos Cobra or lastank and atreides mongoose or Minotaurs blow it up before it gets close enough to do damage. 3) The missile tank is slow and rearms very slow!! fast moving units will mow it down with ease!! Ordos units is the best for taking this out!! 4) The inkvine catapult is totally useless!!!! its useless against the fast moving targets!!! when it shoots its ink in the air I simply move my units out of the way!! and the damage it does is nothing compared to minotaurs and cobras!! 5) the assault tank is good but has to in 2's or 3's to be really effective. 6) of all the infantry I find the only useful one to be the harkonnen trooper!! the rest are useless in my opinion!! The other houses have overall better units!! 7) the devastator is really good at defense and very powerful although very very slow!! of course with an advance carryall and good tactics it can be very useful. But by the time I get to build it my base is almost taken over by the enemy!! 8) the ADP is very good for defense and is the best air defense unit in the game!! The gunships are good as well so air power is good and right up there with the other houses. Did I mention that there is no way to repair harkonnen units!!! all the other houses can either self repair or have specialised repair units!! Overall, Its very hard to play with harkonnen units and my base gets overwelmed with fast moving units!! So this goes out to all you harkonnen experts out there..... what units do you use as the backbone and in what combination? What units you find useless and just ignore building or just build the bare minimum? How can I better utilize the buzzsaw? It just simply needs to run over any spice field to destroy it right? any useful tips will be appreciated..... ok thats my rant so please feel free to give me your opinions and advise.... cheers....

Its the 7th mission where I am called back to my planet to save it from the tleilaxu attack!! There is a time limit as I am aware of but I defeat all the enemy and structures before the limit elapses but yet the game still goes on!! Then when I think I have won there is a constant bombardment by some big nuclear explosive vehicle that keeps coming after the civilian hall!! Its just a matter of time before they destroy it. So what can I do to win here? all tips and helpful strategies are welcomed..... cheers....

I tried the game half hour ago and I get random reboots and lockups!!! I have the 1.09 patch whuch I got right after I downloaded the game with auto update. I have a kyro2 with windows 2000 sp2 what might be causing this?

Hi guys, I am a big fan of all the Dune games and I just purchased Emperor battle for dune . last night I installed the game and played for the first time as the Atriedes and got my butt kicked in skirmish mode due to early rushes. So my question is what the strongest main house and subhouse for a rather easy campaign? As a newbie I feel that I could gain experience, live longer and not have such a hard time playing with the best units and houses in the game. Secondly, whatever house it is what do you guys focus on first to establish a firm foothold? do you build an army of infantry first? then turrets? etc..etc... They are so many units and so many strenghts and weakness' that I feel overwelmed and confused at times as to how to deploy and use each unit to its utmost!! cheers.....