Dune: Imperium

The box is damaged when I receive it.

The box was dented and the cards had clear signs of being used by edge scratch makes or smudges. Its really scummy of them to pass off a used game as brand new

Dune Imperium is incredibly fun and replayable. I have nearly 300 games logged at this point - it’s truly an addiction. The clever combination of deck building with worker placement, the variety of cards, the conflict system, the alliances - it all makes for some beautifully tense and satisfying matches. Rise of Ix expansion is a non-negotiable. You need to get it to enjoy this game to its fullest. Immortality which recently released is another very solid expansion I would recommend. Can’t go wrong with this one. Relatively simple to learn and it can provide hours and hours of the best that board gaming has to offer.

Let me just start off with my negative is the sheer mehness of several of the faction leaders. Ones like Paul, very useful but a couple of others are their big bonus is a one time thing that just is flat overall and generally unimpressive and feels awfully weak. Beyond that, you are what you buy concept is fantastic. Water is important but not the end all be all. Many ways to Victory, combat surprisingly is a very secondary way of winning. The group consensus was that the combat wasnt important at all (except i will argue for 3 missions in the second round and our games have never lasted until the 3rd combat tier, anyways) and just something to do to get some stuff. What is important was the Faction side of it for the easy 4 VP then getting your 1-3 alliances you can do for more victory points. With the Drawing power of several locations being the best way to win when combo with the right card from the Market. So yes typical flaws of the deck building, but a very well done game overall that makes worker placement games actually enjoyable in this version.