Dune anyone?

[Ethelred the Almost Ready]

Having just seen the latest extended trailer for the upcoming Dune movie I wondered whether anyone is gaming this and what figures you would use. 
This movie should be a lot better than the David Lynch one (although I loved Sting in it).

[Inso]

It's likely that anyone gaming this was using the Lynch style for their armies... and I'd guess that Necromunda Van-Sar were always a good fit for the still suits.

Mordian Iron Guard would probably be good for Atreides troops (with trimmed hats).

I haven't had a chance to look at the new film in any detail but It seems to look a bit more "modern military" in a lot of aspects (especially with the Fremen)...

I guess it all depends on what direction you want to take it... it would be great to play in 6mm with massed blocks of troops, giant carriers and air-to-ground attack... and the worms would be easier to include at that scale too .

[mkultra99]

I believe there was an attempt made to bring teh Dune franchise to the world of miniatures wargaming. I believe I saw some prototype fremen and someone had build the walls around the atreides compound, rules were getting talked about... and then *poof* nothing.

[Blackwolf]

Akula on the Forum is the man to ask.

[AKULA]

Well my build thread is here

https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=54787.0

As for the greens/moulds from my project, they were bought by Hasslefree

[OSHIROmodels]

Loved the new trailer and there is some good potential there for gaming, either directly or as inspiration as the kit/gear is more generic 

[Inso]

I reckon that Infinity Miniatures would be a great resource for a lot of the troops:

https://store.corvusbelli.com/wargames/infinity/miniatures

This one, for example :

https://store.corvusbelli.com/wargames/infinity/miniatures/murabid-tuaregs-hacker

[wtjcom]

If the movie is anywhere near as good as the extended trailer, a bit of a wait may also see some good miniatures coming onto the market. There has been a latent interest going back years.

[swiftnick]

There is quite a nice range in 20mm. I think it was mj miniatures.

[beefcake]

I'm looking forward to the movie!
Has Hasslefree produced these yet? I'm gutted I never got them when you (AKULA) were selling them.

[Booboo]

You are not alone, I only purchased a small subset of the more generic almost Cadians when that project came out, and would have loved to purchase the rest.   I emailed Hasselfree to inquiry, perhaps if others show interest to them they might be motivated to spin the molds again.

[fastolfrus]

There was a really good demo game a few years ago (possibly somewhere like Hammerhead?) with a set of rules that were on the verge of printing, lovely terrain and figures.... will see if any of the family can remember more details

[Malebolgia]

So how do people game Dune? It's one of my favourite series, but seems a bit hard to game due to the way how shields work. Most fights in the books are skirmishes around the sietches and these involve a lot of melee combats.

[Brummie]

Echoing Malebolgia

How does someone game Dune?

Lynchs style is so generic as to be only lightly related to the actual book; everyone was running around with guns.

Although there are a lot of references to ranged weapons, I thought Dune took the de-democratization of warfare route, with personal shields rendering ranged weaponry generally obsolete (with some exceptions). Instead it was a semi-medieval style of warfare where you had an Elite soldier class or Aristocracy that engaged in borderline ritualistic melee combat.

[SotF]

Echoing Malebolgia

How does someone game Dune?

Lynchs style is so generic as to be only lightly related to the actual book; everyone was running around with guns.

Although there are a lot of references to ranged weapons, I thought Dune took the de-democratization of warfare route, with personal shields rendering ranged weaponry generally obsolete (with some exceptions). Instead it was a semi-medieval style of warfare where you had an Elite soldier class or Aristocracy that engaged in borderline ritualistic melee combat.

The RTS games had a pretty good setup for it.