What is this?
The 1979 Dune Boardgame (Reimplemented 2019) is a daunting strategy game full of intrigue, schemes, combat and... rules. A lot of rules.
While it makes the game more thematic and interesting, it also makes it complicated.
Particularly the advanced game mode gives a lot of extra rules that want and need to be remembered.
The advanced combat rules are perceived as a bit finicky, because for most factions, you need to count your troops in half-values, only rising up to full strength by using spice.
To add insult to injury, during battles you are composing a "battle-plan" that involves dialing a number on a round dial, slotting a leader into said dial, holding up to 3 cards behind that dial and somewhere storing spice behind that dial. Ain't nobody got handspace for that!
Introducing the Digital Battle Wheel, aka the Dune Combat Calculator.
Using this site you can:
- - Select your faction
- - Calculate combat strength with the help of an easy to use calculator (Original code by Erelyks)
- - Slot your leader (Harkonnen can slot captured leaders, Atreides can activate Kwisatz Haderach)
- - Select Treachery cards
When using a smartphone, you can just show your phone screen when you are done and everything should be easily readable, without any juggling efforts and with less calculation error possibilities.
If you find any bugs, have any feature suggestions or just want to get into contact, shoot me a mail.
The code is freely available on GitHub.
Changelog
1.7.1 - 07.04.2024
- - Staban and Esmar Tuek were switched.... again
- - Switched Plus and Minus Buttons around based on user feedback
1.7 - 17.11.2023
- - Added Reinforcements and Harass & Withdraw Treachery cards
1.6 - 19.10.2023
- - Added Ecaz & Moritani factions, icons created by Anja
- - Added Ecaz ally combat support
1.5 - 13.07.2023
- - Piter De Vries was mistakenly valued at 4, is now correct at 3
- - Made strength and total strength values labels and made total stength stand out a lot more
1.4 - 24.05.2023
- - Added ghola selection for tleilaxu
- - Added a remindertext for forces and spice
- - Fixed small bug when switching from harkonnen captured leaders to other factions
- - Made buttons bigger and restructured forces, starred forces and spice displays
1.3 - 22.02.2023
- - Some restructuring of input fields
- - Label infos added
- - Added plus and minus buttons
- - Minor bugs (Ixians did not have total strength, Wanna Yueh was Wanna Marcus, Staban and Esmar Tuek were switched)
1.2 - 01.02.2023
- - Added Kwisatz Haderach option for Atreides
1.1 - 27.01.2023
- - Added treachery card capabilities
1.0 - 26.01.2023
- - Initial fork of the original code from github
- - Added leader capabilities
Todo
- - Styling changes: I'm not a web-designer and as such my css stylings may be pretty crap for mobile devices. That could be improved I bet. As it is, it works on my desktop and my mobile phone.
- - Nicer leader icons: The icons that are in it now are fine, but they could be better and for some factions are hard to read. I can't use scans of the original because I would probably run into copyright problems. I want to keep the shape and style of the originals though to help with fast recognition in the game.
- - Basic mode: These options are for advanced mode and that was the whole reason for Erelyks to create the base-page. Now I aspire that this could replace the battle wheel all together and as such it would need a basic mode switch.
- - Homeworlds: The latest expansion Ecaz & Moritani brought a new homeworlds module to the game. That changes some things sometimes, which will be accounted for.