Dune: Arrakian Wars will bring back the Battle on Dune, the desert planet. Based on Emperor- Battle for Dune, it will feature all your favorite units from all three factions, Atreides, Harkonnen and Ordos, with new high-end look, new Gameplay elements and much more!

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Time for another update on Dune: Arrakian Wars. Stay tuned for the first screens of the Inkvine Catapult and a quick preview of two Harkonnen buildings - the Flame Turret and Warfactory.



  
In the hands of a true sadist, even the most crude weapon can be as lethal as modern weaponry - whilst not as sophisticated as other vehicles, the Inkvine Catapult demonstrates very well that the Harkonnen know the meaning of sadism. Serving as a long range artillery unit, the catapult is able to launch barrels filled with toxic Inkvine liquid over long distances. Upon hitting a solid target the liquid spreads out and contaminates the area, damaging everything in its radius for some time. Especially infantry should beware of the toxic puddles.






The following structures are already completed but not fully skinned yet, so we decided to go for models only: The Flame Turret serves as House Harkonnen´s stationary anti infantry defense. With their medium ranged attack, they bring quick death to every enemy with light or no armor, so even some vehicles should better keep their distance.

 
The Harkonnen Warfactory is, as you probably guessed, responsible for construction of all vehicles available to Harkonnen. Like other production structures, the Warfactory can only build a portion of the vehicles available to Harkonnen and must be upgraded in order to allow construction of the more advanced vehicles. Like the Flameturret we only show you the model.  

Also last but not least: Concept artist gntlemanartist joined our ranks and is currently working on redesigning some Ordos vehicles. Stay tuned to see some of his works soon!

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Vengence
Vengence Apr 27 2008, 11:53pm says:

Tell me fellow modders... why is it that Atreides hasn't been made yet? Hmm? Oh... and why is the Devastator now a tank unlike in Emperor? I can understand that the Devastator was originally a tank. Is it that you lack a good animator? And thus are holding off the Atreides till you find one? Because they had 2 mechs as their PRIMARY units, its kinda betraying the original game if you turned them into tanks.

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Acid-Cr@sh
Acid-Cr@sh Apr 28 2008, 8:37am replied:

Now there some interesting words, you only telling that everything is bad, so show your work from this branch instead of cruising. And another thing this project isn’t a direct duplicate of the original game, so should Devastator look like tank or a mech, its modelers choosing.
(Понимал бы русский я б тебе попонятней обьяснил)

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Vengence
Vengence Apr 28 2008, 9:23am replied:

Oh yeah one more thing, my profile has some vids of my stuff cause you asked.
Linky: Moddb.com

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Vengence
Vengence Apr 28 2008, 9:18am replied:

Mod looks great for sure and I certainly knew they weren't directly copying the original. I knew from the start the Devastator was a tank in the older games but a mech in the Emperor. I liked Emperor and thing is, turning the devastator into a tank and the lack of Atreides in the galleries tells me that there is a good chance that the team lacks an animator to make mechs hence why only Harkonnen and Ordos have been made. Seeing as how Atreides have 2 mechs as primary units (aka not special) it'd be betraying a great deal of the original game for a simpler solution.

If you really must know I am skinning units for Sigma Invasion and I'll be modeling their infantry and doing all of the complex animations such as running ect, I am also an animator for MidEast Crisis 2, and I have animated Shockwave's ExoSuit running anims myself.

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Acid-Cr@sh
Acid-Cr@sh Apr 28 2008, 9:42am replied:

Now I understand your point of view, in this case, when you have good skill (no doubt in that i've seen couple of mods you mentioned), any help is welcomed (this is my opinion). Anyway i think, you can have a chat with mod team, for good of both sides. I think that this project is really very promising, and it will bee bone, the main question is when, an any talented person could shorten this time limit

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Vengence
Vengence Apr 28 2008, 10:02am replied:

I'd look forward to it when I get the time and commitment to make something. Atm it is crazy for me since there is so much going on already. But hey, if I do sign on they'd have a crazy animator with them ;)

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CCGX
CCGX Apr 28 2008, 11:28am replied:

there are atreides stuff missing because... we don't have anyone to do this stuff. it's just i do harkonnen, shmafoozius is doing ordos... thats the only reason we dont have many atreides stuff to show

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Vengence
Vengence Apr 28 2008, 3:30pm replied:

If you need a mech model or animation done, I can do some when the time comes.

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Shmafoo
Shmafoo Apr 29 2008, 1:31pm replied:

Thanks for your offer.

As ccgx already said, the main reason why we don't have any Atreides stuff to show you is, that there's currently no one to to the models. We had mongoose for modeling Atreides, but due some circumstances he can now only do some small subhouse models.

But the other part about not having an animator is true as well, but this is not the reason why the Devastator was made a tank instead of some walker like in Emperor. It's just our opinion that the Devastator should stay a tank like in the old games. Not having some animator is more relatet to not having new infantry models at this point, but we do not plan to reuse old infantry models or cutting walker completely from our mod. I'm sure our team will grow as we continue our mod and be able to show much better stuff than we have now.

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