u/Etowno

A 6 player game with tech tokens, homeworlds, leader traits, etc, all of the new mechanics.

How is it? Ive always wanted to try it. Probably not the smoothest way to play to game but sounds pretty fun to try at least once, with a group of experienced players.

I recently started playing some Diplomacy games on Backstabbr, which is a really well put together app. Anything like that exist for Dune?

I heard there used to be a website but don't know if that's still up. Is TTS the only option?

Imo the whole elemental caste thing just feels kinda cliche and non-alien. Idk maybe it wasnt cliche at the time it was made but now just feels kinda overdone.

Shas warriors, Fio engineers, Por diplomats, Kor pilots, and Aun Ethereals just sounds a lot cooler and alien to me.

Not that Warhammer is all about in depth philosophical ideas but there is some interesting stuff in setting like trans-humanism, noospheres, egregores, etc.

On the surface, "The Greater Good" sounds like like a cliche good guy human belief system. But the idea is interesting. I havent read any 40k books, but is the Greater Good ever explored as a philosophical and ethical system of an alien species?

Not like in a simple way where "the Tau say they believe in the greater good but actually are bad" or whatever, but an actual examination of the philosophy and how it relates to other philosophies within the grimdark universe.

I've always understood the game to be making some lore exceptions to provide fun gameplay for a squad of 4 rejects being able to kill 1000 or so heretics each mission. But would 4 Skitarii elites actually be able to fight through the heretic masses with hordes of zombies and specialists?

Im no expert on the lore but Id say the Skitarii are probably the most powerful lore-wise of all the classes so far.

I could see it

Driving me crazy cant figure out what some of the symbols mean