Gale Force Nine Dune Ixians & Tleilaxu House Expansion,Various

Good additional options and new faction choices.

Dune has always been on my short list as the best games of all time. The old game is pretty much the same as the new, but the new is easier to use. The inclusion of these extra Houses is interesting. I have not play tested some of the new Treachery cards but it is all pretty exciting.

Emperor and spacing guild now have solid competitors

Verry fun!

First a foremost I love this board game, so buying this expansion was a no brainer. But when I received the Ixian and Tleilaxu expansion I realized that something was wrong with the printed images. They all appear to be smaller and off center. Images online show the images being a normal size but these are clearly smaller. The treachery cards are all fine but I am disappointed with the print quality of the pop out pieces.

After having the good fortune of having a consistent 6 player experience, we had the two veterans play the new factions. Just as Herbert shook his Duniverse in his sequels with expanding on the Bene Tleilax and the Ixians, the board game takes the literary mechanics and masterfully shakes up the board game with new factions

I have been enjoying dune!

If you’ve already played the base game a lot this may be a worthwhile product for you; however, I would highly recommend getting a feel for what parts of the expansion you do and do not like and playing piecemeal only what you do. Some of the new cards feel like they stifle interesting gameplay, (shieldsnooper and poison blade, most notably) some cards have situation use but feel terrible to ever draw, (harvester is the worst offender) but some cards are brilliant and add positively to the base game (chemistry and weirding way are great additions). The new factions are also a mixed bag - there’s hardly a consensus among my group as to this point, but I think the Tleilaxu are remarkably unfun to play as or against, but the Ix are solid. Even if you do like the Tleilaxu, be sure not to play them in the same game as the Emperor and the Spacing Guild, as the over abundance of spice unbalances the game’s economy. tl;dr — worth it if you’ve played enough of the base game to find it somewhat stale and want to mix it up

The product is great! The new houses are interesting and different without being so different it doesn’t feel like dune. Only complaint is that you have to mess around with the base box to get it to fit in there. Overall recommend

Amazing board game and expansion.