Emperor: Battle for Dune - Harkonnen Level 02

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Published on March 9, 2024 10:56:08 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZOzYx5ng44

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Emperor: Battle for Dune (2001)

Duration: 15:24

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With the new Dune movie released, I thought I'd upload some old videos of a playthrough of the last licensed strategy game for the franchise released in 2001 (although stylistically it looks more like the David Lynch 1984 film than the descriptions in the books or the visuals from Denis Villeneuve's version).

Strategy overview:
An easy standard mission where you build a base and a force to take out your opponents own base. Securing some slaves is easy with your starting troops for the secondary objective and yields reinforcements. Build a couple of refineries, upgrades them, a factory and a barracks. Use some scouts to find the enemy base. About 10-15 combat tanks will finish the enemy base easily.

0:00 Opening Cutscene
2:47 Map
You need to reach one of the opposing house capitals on the map. You'll only be taking on one of them before being thrust into the final two missions - so there is no point in advancing towards both. I aim for the Atreides due to the historic rivalry between the houses in the books. Also to Ordos have the Deviator which is the best counter to the Harkonnen Devestator which will come into play in latter missions. I move the reinforcements and attack in the middle. Whilst this gives the enemy more reinforcements than attacking down the side of the map, there is less chance of being blocked by sandstorms in advancing to the Atreides capital and having to do additional missions. I move the reinforcements to the adjacent territory to get more starting units.
3:30 Briefing
4:02 Game Start
I deploy the MCV and have the troops destroy the wreckages in the sand which yield extra cash. I start to build two refineries and upgrade them to have three harvesters each to get money rolling in.
5:32 Securing the secondary objective
I click on the radar to send all my forces to kill the few Atreides sand bikes and secure the slaves.
7:55 Reinforcements Arrive
This is a reward for completing the secondary objective. I start pumping out combat tanks and sending out scouts to find the enemy base. Fremen turn up in retaliation for capturing the slaves, so I build some flame turrets and have Buzzsaws ready to deal with the,
10:05 Dealing with enemy reinforcements
Buzzsaws make light work of the Fremen infantry.
11:44 Enemy base located
Moving the scout short spaces at a time (so the interior cursor arrows stay white) allows him to move in whilst stealthed and uncover the entire base, giving me the confidence my force of combat tanks is big enough to finish the job.
14:00 Attacking the enemy base
I'd normally aim to take out defenses before moving onto production structures and the construction yard, however my numbers are so overwhelming here it wouldn't matter what order you attack in.
15:03 Victory

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