Dune risk idea (this is no fan fiction)

[Emperor Harkonnen]

Do you guys know the board game risk? if not, it is a game were you conquer territories by throwing dies, and you place battalions in your territories. There is also a Lord of the Rings Risk, which you can be either orcs or elves(I have acctually never tried the LOTR version) and you try to conquer middle earth or something.

and my idea is, what if they made a Dune Risk Board game?

The different players fight to control Arrakis. Or we could have an even larger game, where you had to conquer Arrakis, Caladan, Giedi Prime, Kaitain etc.but let's go for the arrakis idea:

The houses available for players should be:

House Colour

Harkonnen  Blue

Atreides  Green

Richese ????

Ordos(?)  ????

There should be extra ordinary players options as well. Someone could play the Fremen, Spacing Guild and Sardaukar.

Fremen Brown

Sardaukar  Gold

Guild Black

For the houses there will be reinforcements from their home planet after every round, like in the real risk.

Maybe it should also be possible to attack the home planet of the other players, after you have eliminated their presence on Arrakis?

But how should Arrakis be divided into several territories? it should be at least 40 territories.

The Fremen and the Sardaukar has got advantages in attacks. One batalion with fremen or sardaukar should be able to take out 3 house battalions, if they get the highest number on the dies.

and there should also be sandworms, both fremen controlled and free.

House forces:

Soldier(lasgun) = 1 battalion

Ornithopter = 5 batalions

Fremen forces:

Fremen Warrior = 1 battalion

= 5 battalions

Sandworm = 10 battalions

Sardaukar forces:

Sardaukar = 1 battalion

Orinthopter = 5 battalions

okey, that's all for now. more to come. although I would greatly appreciate ideas from you guys, if you have ever played risk. If you have played it on computer(I am a huge fan of the computer game as well) then it would be the classic version, and NOT same time.

and I need help to find a House Force and sardaukar force which can be worth 10 battalions, and a fremen force which can be worth 5 battalions.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

eh, maybe this thread should be in the other dune games section.

[Khan]

Andrew is already making (or made) a dune risk game called Dune Jihad.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

okey, but I am making a new one. how did he manage to make that anyway? you need help from someone who acctually knows how to make those board games.

[Andrew]

Well if you read the "Dune Risk" thread is explains how Dune Jihad came to be which is not really finished yet. The game is played on the net, although I am sure you could easily print off the map rules etc and play the game (permission first) although everything especially rules and ways to play are not done yet (thats what the first game is for).

[Emperor Harkonnen]

could you give me a link to this. and I thought it was board game not net game.

I think I want to ask the producer of the board game risk if they can make my idea come true

[Andrew]

Original thread, explains how the rest came to be

Dune Jihad Turns

Dune Jihad Turns Comments

My Dune Jihad webpage that will most likely be going down in 2 weeks.

Kinda like a board game, but people on the internet play and tell their moves etc, and someone updates the map and stuff.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

damn, I thought I had come up with something new :'(

well I anyway want it as a board game, I will ask the producer if I ever find their web page.

[Andrew]

There were dune boardgames made.

http://www.duneworld.org/games/ah.html

you can buy some at ebay also

[Emperor Harkonnen]

cool, but even though I don't believe than one of the is risk, so I still think it would be cool if it was made

btw. where can I find the info and rules about those games

[Andrew]

I did have the webpage, but am unable to find it now :(

search on google and you might find a link

[TMA_1]

I like the sound of the idea. also yours andrew. :)

and I think its perfect in the duniverse forum, because it wouldnt recieve many comments in the "other dune games" forum.lol

[Andrew]

and I think its perfect in the duniverse forum, because it wouldnt recieve many comments in the "other dune games" forum.lol

Yeah very true...lol, no one visits that forum. I think the 3 Dune Jihad threads have more posts than the rest put together. ;) (well a good chunk of it)

[Emperor Harkonnen]

but andrew don't u think we should have asked those guys who make the risk board game if they could make a dune risk board game?

[Andrew]

but andrew don't u think we should have asked those guys who make the risk board game if they could make a dune risk board game?

They did make some. there were 2 made, one by each company.

http://www.dune2k.com/?page=duniverse-other

and go to board game section.

oops, ignore what i just said...hmm, it would be great if they did make a dune risk game, it would be popular at the moment too. ask them, i dont know.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

yeah I will, as soon as I get their web site adress. the only thing I want in return from them is a free version of the board game when it is finished. man those board games are expensive, like 70 dollars or something

[Emperor Harkonnen]

they said I had to develop the game myself and then sell it to them. damn that I can't too.

lol, a little bit late I answer, but I just got my interest for dune risk board game again.

guess we will never see it :'( nowadays I play LOTR risk a lot so I think that the risk games rules!(because I win so often ;D )

[Emperor Harkonnen]

Okay guys I have started to write a lot about the game, and I still need ur help to find out something that could be worth 3 batallions. any suggestions?

also every house is going to have a special weapon which they can have one of. anyone got any ideas for special weapons for those specific houses I mentioned?

ok I'll mention again:

Harkonnen

Atreides

Ix

Tleilaxu

Richese

anything would be appreciated

[Emperor Harkonnen]

I have one card for each house, so that they can be dealt to every player. the house card tells the player which house she or he is going to play as.

what do you think of them?[attachment archived by Gobalopper]

[Andrew]

They look very well done.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

thanks andrew! I was considering if I should have the stars on black on the back side of the cards...what do you think? and have another background on the front side of the card

[Andrew]

The side of the cars that is posted with the stars looks good, do not know if another background would be better, but then I havn't seen another background. (maybe make the back of the card just have the black background with stars)

[Vanguard3000]

Why don't you put a logo or something on the backside of the cards?  The Spacing Guild logo, perhaps?  Or maybe, the work "Dune" over a desert background.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

nah the spacing guild logo I will use another place I have decided. But the word dune over a desert background is a good idea for territoricards! thanks!

I might make some other examples and post them here...just don't have time now.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

background of some kind of card ready...what do you think of it?[attachment archived by Gobalopper]