Dune: A Game of Conquest and Diplomacy

Tick each step as you complete it.

1. 1Place the board and the spice bank. Shuffle the four decks —spice, battle, traitor and market— and leave them face down beside the board. The turn marker goes to 1, the phase marker to Storm and the storm marker to the storm start sector.

   

   

   

2. 2Deal factions at random: take one traitor card from each faction, shuffle them and give one to each player. Reveal them to show who plays what, then return them to the traitor deck.

   

3. 3Set up traitors: remove the factions that are not in play, shuffle and deal four cards to each player (Harkonnen does it differently, as their sheet says). Everyone keeps one in secret and returns the rest.

   

4. 4Each faction takes its starting spice from the bank: 13 for Atreides, 15 for Harkonnen, 6 for Fremen and 18 for Imperium. It sits on the faction sheet, which also lists your forces and leaders.

   

5. 5Place forces: Fremen put 5 in the Polar Sink and keep the rest in reserve. Every other faction keeps all forces in reserve, next to its leader discs.

   

6. 6Roll the storm die to pick the first player: highest roll goes first, and the storm icon counts as the highest value. Reroll ties.