Where are the tanks?

[Benzin]

On the steam page for the game, at 0:48 of the first video, you can see troops advancing on a city along with several Tanks. Yet i havent seen any tanks in game.
Granted, im only on my 2nd playthru. Both as Atreides. But the other factions have never fielded them either.

So, are there tanks in the game as we are lead to belive by the video? If so, what faction has them?

[Satekoi]

Those are Artillery Drone, and only Corrino can build them.

Many House has unique Drone.

[Kōizumi Seishiro]

No tanks b/c lore of the Dune universe.

[Timur_Bysky]

(Sorry for my bad English)
1. Due to the nature of the battles in this game(for make gameplay more interesting, combinate different types of units, like range+melee etc).
2. Developers don't want to overload players with tens types of units (tanks, artillery, rokets launchers etc.)
3. This game is based mostly on the movie. In the movie we didn't see a tanks.
4. Just imagine the noise they will make for the worms

[MaGicBush]

I never ended up buying this game because they didn't add enough units. Glad I held off during EA. I still have it wishlisted, but at this point I doubt they will add any new vehicles to the game sadly.

[hannibal_pjv]

In books... mostly some flying units (those are in the game) some long range weapons (those are in the game) swords (those also are in the game), atomics (those are in the game) so definitely almost all lore based weapon types are in the game!

[Benzin]

Thanks for your input guys.
I havent read the books, so im not familiar with the lore.
Its cool if there are no tanks, the game is awesome without them. I was just curious about why they are in the videos but nowhere on the game.
I tought maybe i was missing some research or something.

[Benzin]

On a side note, one of the things i like most about the game, is that (unlike most 4X) this one truly is balanced in regards to the use politics, economy, diplomacy, etc. And not completely oriented towards combat.
Most 4X claim to be this way, but in the end it all comes down to building huge blobs of troops and right clicking all over the map with them.

I like that the game REALLY does have ways to win that dont involve having a billion troops.
So no tanks? no problem :)

EDIT:
Can you recommend other Real time (dont like turn based) 4X games that allow you to do this in a fun way?

[Fantastic Mr. Fox]

Originally posted by MaGicBush:

I never ended up buying this game because they didn't add enough units. Glad I held off during EA. I still have it wishlisted, but at this point I doubt they will add any new vehicles to the game sadly.

Not part of the lore, you are missing out. Get over yourself.

[glythe]

Originally posted by Benzin:

On a side note, one of the things i like most about the game, is that (unlike most 4X) this one truly is balanced in regards to the use politics, economy, diplomacy, etc. And not completely oriented towards combat.

I wouldn't say this game is balanced. By far the easiest way to kill someone is assassination and it's really not very *fun*.

Originally posted by Benzin:

EDIT:
Can you recommend other Real time (dont like turn based) 4X games that allow you to do this in a fun way?

Have you tried EU4 or HOI4?

Originally posted by MaGicBush:

I never ended up buying this game because they didn't add enough units. Glad I held off during EA. I still have it wishlisted, but at this point I doubt they will add any new vehicles to the game sadly.

The air units help quite a lot. It's kind of "meh" in a way because everything else is foot based.

Some people said Dune II was ridiculous because of the sandworm/vibration thing but having played both when they were a brand new game.... I think Dune II was more fun.

This dune is interesting and can be fun but there is a level of monotony with the infantry. The missile base used to be "wickedly op" compared to the joke it is now. That spiced things up a bit but overall the game does kind of suffer from a lack of units.

In the lore the Harkonnen had artillery and either a trike or quad (dont remember which). The trike and quad were in Dune II but they do not make an appearance here.

You know what isn't in this game?

By the lore the Harkonnen were "butchering" the fremen. In this game the Fremen are special forces. They eventually became elite warriors but only after Paul.

The Harkonnen military is finally in a place where it doesn't suck but the Fremen have always been overtuned.

By lore they should have no Ornithopters (something again that only happened after Paul)

To be blunt this development team is ignoring lore where they find it convenient.

[IonizedMercury]

Originally posted by glythe:

Originally posted by Benzin:

On a side note, one of the things i like most about the game, is that (unlike most 4X) this one truly is balanced in regards to the use politics, economy, diplomacy, etc. And not completely oriented towards combat.

I wouldn't say this game is balanced. By far the easiest way to kill someone is assassination and it's really not very *fun*.

Originally posted by Benzin:

EDIT:
Can you recommend other Real time (dont like turn based) 4X games that allow you to do this in a fun way?

Have you tried EU4 or HOI4?

Originally posted by MaGicBush:

I never ended up buying this game because they didn't add enough units. Glad I held off during EA. I still have it wishlisted, but at this point I doubt they will add any new vehicles to the game sadly.

The air units help quite a lot. It's kind of "meh" in a way because everything else is foot based.

Some people said Dune II was ridiculous because of the sandworm/vibration thing but having played both when they were a brand new game.... I think Dune II was more fun.

This dune is interesting and can be fun but there is a level of monotony with the infantry. The missile base used to be "wickedly op" compared to the joke it is now. That spiced things up a bit but overall the game does kind of suffer from a lack of units.

In the lore the Harkonnen had artillery and either a trike or quad (dont remember which). The trike and quad were in Dune II but they do not make an appearance here.

You know what isn't in this game?

By the lore the Harkonnen were "butchering" the fremen. In this game the Fremen are special forces. They eventually became elite warriors but only after Paul.

The Harkonnen military is finally in a place where it doesn't suck but the Fremen have always been overtuned.

By lore they should have no Ornithopters (something again that only happened after Paul)

To be blunt this development team is ignoring lore where they find it convenient.

Wow, nearly everything here is wrong.

1.The Harkonnen used artillery (explicitely said to be museum pieces) to collapse a bunch of caves that Atreides troops had hid in. For nothing else. And they shipped it back to the museum when they were done

2.The Harkonnen never used trikes or quads, that's all Dune 2

3.The Harkonnen didn't butcher the Fremen, the Sardaukar performed a pogrom before they left after the fall of House Atreides and they took substantial losses while doing so. The Harkonnen troops are not great fighters in the book. They just held the edge over the Fremen because they had air superiority. That's why the final battle happened during a sandstorm which disabled the Harkonnen's and Emperor's frigates and ornies and left only the ground troops to fight

To be blunt, you are utterly ignorant of the lore of the books, so you have zero justificaction to lambase others for it.

[Connatic]

Originally posted by MaGicBush:

I never ended up buying this game because they didn't add enough units. Glad I held off during EA. I still have it wishlisted, but at this point I doubt they will add any new vehicles to the game sadly.

Yeah, it's based off the books this time. Not meant to be a Dune 2/Emperor sequel.

[ashbery76]

Stuck on Naval transports.

[Katitoff]

On planets, which they can operate without being instantly destroyed by oversized earthworms.