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From: "Sanguinius" <sanguis@online.no>
Newsgroups: alt.games.dune-ii.virgin-games
Subject: Re: Dune CCG
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:56:58 +0100

> What's the card game like? Magic, or something else? Is it old or new,
>easy or hard to find? Thanks.

:-D
I'm glad you asked that question, because it is in fact probably the best
Collectible Card Game ever! You cannot at all compare it to Magic: The
Gathering. Magic is extremely easy to learn and it is very plain, simple,
booring...

"Dune: Eye of the Storm", as it's full name is, is very complicated, but
once you learn the rules it is incredible exciting. It bases itself upon the
book/movie and each player has it's own house minor (you just make up a name
of some house). You can choose to ally yourself with House Harkonnen, House
Atreides, House Corrino, the Spacing Guild, the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood or
the Fremen. The game itself and the rules are incredibly advanced and very
sophisticated, allowing different ways of solving conflicts between houses.
You can use Arbitration to completely fuck up economic charters or contracts
your enemy has, you can use Battle to attack deserts or even homeworlds with
legions of Sardaukar, Fremen, Atreides soldiers or Harkonnen soldiers, all
depending on what house you're allied with, you can use Intrigue to deploy
assasins led by a Mentat master-of-assasins to "remove" prominent members of
an enemy house by adding a drop of poison to their wine or stabbing them in
the back a dark night, or you can use Duelling to challenge members of other
houses to knife-fighting in order to make them lose their honour.

The object of the game is to earn status as a house major. In order to do
this you need at least 10 spice (which you can buy or harvest during the
game) and 10 favour (your favour rating tells you something about how much
other houses like you or something.)

Phew... That was way to much, and still I haven't BEGUN to tell you about
the game. :-)

Where you can get it? Depends on where yo live. I myself have no problem
getting it, and I live in Oslo, Norway. In other words: the middle of
nowhere. I know of at least three shops in Oslo that specialises in Role
Playing Games, CCGs, Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books and so forth. Try looking in
that kind of shops. Hope you find it!

That should do for now, but if you have questions about the game, do not
hesitate to ask.

Duke Sanguinius
House Sanguinius
sanguis@online.no
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