Dune

Place all spice tokens in the Spice Bank. The Spice Deck, Battle Deck, and Market Deck are shuffled and placed face down next to the game board. Played cards will be piled face up next to the decks as discards and reshuffled to restock these decks as necessary. Players may not search through discards; only the top one is public information. Players choose factions, dealing out faction sheets randomly. To do this take one Traitor card from each faction, shuffle, and deal one card to each player. Reveal the Traitor cards to show what faction each player is playing, then return the Traitor cards to the Traitor Deck. Players take their faction components and set up as follows (with exceptions described on their faction sheets).

The object of the game is to use your faction's unique advantages to gain control of Dune either by controlling three strongholds at the end of either turn 3, 4, or 5, or by having the most points from strongholds and spice at the end of turn 5.

Dune is played in turns to a maximum limit of 5 turns. Each turn is composed of seven specific phases that must be completed in the exact sequence presented below: Storm Phase, Spice Blow and Nexus Phase, CHOAM Charity Phase, Bidding Phase, Revival Phase, Shipping & Movement Phase, and Battle Phase. During some phases in a turn play passes counter-clockwise in player order from one player to the next. Each turn is composed of seven specific phases that must be completed in the exact sequence presented on the next page.

If no one achieves the victory condition, the player with the most spice combined with strongholds is declared the winner. This is determined by adding the number of strongholds controlled by each player to the amount of spice they have. The player with the highest total is declared the winner.

The game ends when a player achieves the victory condition or at the end of turn 5. If no one achieves the victory condition, the player with the most spice combined with strongholds is declared the winner.