using the digital version to learn the physical version, not understanding deployment

[Slartibartfast]

So I have a board game camping event coming up next week, and bought this game because Dune is awesome and its the 6th best board game on Board Game Geek. I think I understand almost everything, except deployment. I get you can only deploy when you play on a combat space, but it seems like the amount you can deploy is based on something I do not understand. It generally seems like you can deploy 3 units when you send an agent to a combat space, but I swear that number has varied. Can someone clarify the rules for me on how many units I can deploy when I play on a combat space?

[noctilucus]

Top of my head: you can deploy 2 armies from your garrison plus whatever number of armies you acquired when landing on that combat space (e.g. most blue combat spaces give you 1 army, which you can then immediately deploy in addition to the 2 from your garrison). Any armies you gained from the card you used to send your agent to the combat space, will also come on top.

This makes heighliner so powerful, as you get 5 armies to deploy straight away, plus potentially 2 more from your garrison.

[Trolleur_Durden]

Originally posted by noctilucus:

Top of my head: you can deploy 2 armies from your garrison plus whatever number of armies you acquired when landing on that combat space (e.g. most blue combat spaces give you 1 army, which you can then immediately deploy in addition to the 2 from your garrison). Any armies you gained from the card you used to send your agent to the combat space, will also come on top.

This makes heighliner so powerful, as you get 5 armies to deploy straight away, plus potentially 2 more from your garrison.

Actually, the rule is: whenever you go to a combat space, you can deploy up to 2 troops plus all the troops you recruited during your current agent's turn, no matter their origin. Most of the time, it will indeed only be the troops you recruited through the space you went to, like Heighliner, but it can also be troops recruited through influence gain, intrigue cards or a card's agent effect, it doesnt matter.

So for example, if you go to Carthag with Missionaria Protectiva, trigger the card effect to gain 1 Emperor influence and reach 4 influence on the Emperor track, which gives you 2 troops, you can deploy up to 5 troops (2 base troops, 1 troop because you recruited one on Carthag and 2 troops because you recruited 2 by reaching 4 influence on the emperor track, even if you didn't go on an Emperor space this turn).

[Slartibartfast]

Thank you guys!

[Cavas]

Thanks for claryfying, I also struggled with this.