User Guide

HOW TO PLAY
16 DUNE 2000
CREATING ADDITIONAL UNITS
If you have a Construction Yard and enough credits, you can build a Barracks, which will
allow you to train infantry. At first, the type of units you can train will be limited. As you
win missions, you’ll receive new technologies and upgrades. Once you do this, new units
with unique abilities will become available.
As the game progresses and you build up your base, you’ll have a chance to construct a Light
Weapons Factory and a Heavy Weapons Factory. With these structures, you can acquire
new and more powerful units like Trikes, Quads, and Combat Tanks. Keep in mind that all
units won’t be available for all three Houses, and some units require you to build other
structures (like a Repair Pad) before they become available.
(CREDITS) MONEY, SPICE AND HARVESTING
There is one type of resource that you can collect to make money: the Spice Melange, or
Spice. Spice is found in red-orange patches in the desert, and must be harvested to produce
credits.
In the upper right of the screen, the Credit Counter keeps track of the money you have to
build structures and units.This decreases as you build or repair units and structures, and
increases if you sell a building, deposit Spice from a Spice Harvester into the Refinery, or
find a crate that contains money.
In order to make money, you need to harvest Spice. To harvest Spice, you need to build a
Spice Refinery. Every Refinery that you build comes with a Harvester, and you can build
extra if you want to harvest Spice faster. Once construction of the Refinery is complete,
place the Refinery where you want it to go.The closer the Refinery is to Spice, the faster
the turn-around on collection will be.
When the Refinery is built, a Spice Harvester will be delivered by Carryall.The Harvester
will move to the nearest patch of Spice visible on your battlefield and begin harvesting it.
The Spice Harvester will try to remember where it was harvesting from and after dumping
all of the collected Spice into the Refinery it will return to the Spice patch and continue to
collect from it. This process is automatic, but can be interrupted by you at any time by
redirecting the Spice Harvester to another location.
BUILD
BARRACKS
SPICE SPICE
REFINERY
SPICE
HARVESTER