Dune: Spice Wars

This guide is a shortened copy-paste from my walkthrough of the game. You might want to check the walktrough of the game for context/tactics but this achievement can be done in several ways.

This is also the hardest achievement od the game, so fasten your seatbelts.


Extracted from the Walkthrough:

0 Befor you start a Game
0.1 Faction choice:

The best factions for this are the combat and eco centered Harkonnen or the early-game eco favoring Smugglers. Smugglers can also sabotage the oppenents base defences making it much easier to destroy it.
(For Harkonnen you have to keep in mind that you have to constantly click the opression ability on your villages to maintain high eco. If you let it run out by accident it might backfire.)

0.2 Play against a 1v1 match.

0.3 Research with focus on combat. Priority is to unlock heavy infantery. Afterwards you can go as you seem fit. I recommend to go for economy and never for political intrigue. The goal is to win quick and everything political ist a long-term investment.

0.4 Once you are confident to make an attack on the AI, save beforehand. If you lose a combat you can reload and adjust tactics if nessessary.



Lets get started:

1. Save the game and scout for your opponents base. Once you found it, reload. You can also scout the whole map, take a screenshot or make a second save and use that information in your main attempt.

2. Focus on expanding in the direction your opponent is located. If possible prioritize to conquer spice regions along the way.

3. Conquer villages in direct path to your opponent. If you have chosen Smugglers you can loot the villages right and left of your path to gain revenue, dont loot villages in your direct way except if you specificly want to stall the AI. This will provide enouth income for 1-3 scacaving cycles but it will fall of after that

4. Be as aggressive as possible within the bounds of your upkeep. Which is is more important for Harkonnen faction if you supression your villages.

5. Try to take/unconquer every territory around your opponents homebase. Stay out of its base-defense range. This way you will keep from expending - especialy into spicefields.

6. Contiune this supression tactic. Meanwhile build up your own (spice) economy in your territories. Your main goal here is to stay ahead of the AI. If it got no more than 1-3 terriories it should be easily possible to keep it in check. More territories might allow it to expend too far.

You can also place missile pods in territories adjecent to the opponents base while placing them inside your own territory. The base defences will not aggro those turrets but your turret will attack AI-troops. if they come in range (which can be right where they spawn)

7. As soon as the AI cant pay its spice-taxes there will be rioting AI-units attacking its base and inevitably destroy it giving you the win. If you want to speed it up cou can always attack the base yourself, but the basedefences are particularly strong against low-tier units such as yours.

This will look like this:



(7.1 Wait)

8 You win. Congratulations!

This guide is a shortened copy-paste from my walkthrough of the game. You might want to check the walktrough of the game for context/tactics but this achievement can be done in several ways.

This is also the hardest achievement od the game, so fasten your seatbelts.


Extracted from the Walkthrough:

0 Befor you start a Game
0.1 Faction choice:

The best factions for this are the combat and eco centered Harkonnen or the early-game eco favoring Smugglers. Smugglers can also sabotage the oppenents base defences making it much easier to destroy it.
(For Harkonnen you have to keep in mind that you have to constantly click the opression ability on your villages to maintain high eco. If you let it run out by accident it might backfire.)

0.2 Play against a 1v1 match.

0.3 Research with focus on combat. Priority is to unlock heavy infantery. Afterwards you can go as you seem fit. I recommend to go for economy and never for political intrigue. The goal is to win quick and everything political ist a long-term investment.

0.4 Once you are confident to make an attack on the AI, save beforehand. If you lose a combat you can reload and adjust tactics if nessessary.



Lets get started:

1. Save the game and scout for your opponents base. Once you found it, reload. You can also scout the whole map, take a screenshot or make a second save and use that information in your main attempt.

2. Focus on expanding in the direction your opponent is located. If possible prioritize to conquer spice regions along the way.

3. Conquer villages in direct path to your opponent. If you have chosen Smugglers you can loot the villages right and left of your path to gain revenue, dont loot villages in your direct way except if you specificly want to stall the AI. This will provide enouth income for 1-3 scacaving cycles but it will fall of after that

4. Be as aggressive as possible within the bounds of your upkeep. Which is is more important for Harkonnen faction if you supression your villages.

5. Try to take/unconquer every territory around your opponents homebase. Stay out of its base-defense range. This way you will keep from expending - especialy into spicefields.

6. Contiune this supression tactic. Meanwhile build up your own (spice) economy in your territories. Your main goal here is to stay ahead of the AI. If it got no more than 1-3 terriories it should be easily possible to keep it in check. More territories might allow it to expend too far.

You can also place missile pods in territories adjecent to the opponents base while placing them inside your own territory. The base defences will not aggro those turrets but your turret will attack AI-troops. if they come in range (which can be right where they spawn)

7. As soon as the AI cant pay its spice-taxes there will be rioting AI-units attacking its base and inevitably destroy it giving you the win. If you want to speed it up cou can always attack the base yourself, but the basedefences are particularly strong against low-tier units such as yours.

This will look like this:



(7.1 Wait)

8 You win. Congratulations!