Board Game – Dune – Mostly Finished

I’ve mostly finished building the game now. Giving the rulebook another solid read to make sure I’m not missing anything, but I am:

• A marker for where the storm currently is.
• Tokens for the spice. I’ve ordered 100 purple cubes from Starlit Citadel (a local games store) so this will be solved quickly.
• Some way to mark Fedaykin and Sardaukar, apparently those troops have stars on their tokens in the actual game, but I’m playing with cubes. I have different shaped cubes, but only 4-5 per colour so I have to figure out if that’s enough.
• Seconds later I look down at the rulebook and see that there are 3 Fedaykin and 5 Sardaukar, of which the colours I have are perfect.

I cut and sleeved about 200 cards. Carefully cut out 6 player aid shields. Less carefully cut out 2 combat wheels.

After I glued the edges of the map last time, I Purity Sealed the top and then painted into the crevasses with colours similar to the colours that were missing. Because the map is 9 sheets of printed paper, there are 4 lines across the map where my job of lining the pages up were not perfect. Purity Seal again, to keep the paint down. Then some white glue painted carefully on in places where the paper was pulling up. I didn’t want to white glue a lot, because it can shrink the paper if you’re not careful.

And a photo of the whole set! I hope to find a good box around the house to put it in.

I’ve started organizing a time and place to gather the various actors who have a vested interest in the status of Arrakis, and hopefully the next photos will be of me and 5 other friends playing this game!