Dune: War for Arrakis Setup Guide

Setup Steps

1. Board setup: Assemble the two game board sections and place the Spice Must Flow board nearby.
2. Place settlements: Place Settlement tokens on their designated board positions: Arrakeen, Carthag, 4 Pyon Villages, and 8 Sietches.
3. Place stations: Place the 6 Ecological Testing Stations on their designated board positions.
4. Supremacy marker: Place the Supremacy marker on the starting position of the Supremacy Track.
5. Prescience markers: Place the 3 Prescience markers on the starting positions of the Prescience Track.
6. Imperium markers: Place the 3 Imperium markers on the starting positions of the Spice Must Flow board.
7. Player components: Each player takes their Player Dashboard, action dice, combat dice, units, leaders, and deployment tokens.
8. Shuffle planning decks: Each player shuffles their two Planning card decks (House deck and Ally deck) separately and places them face down.
9. Prescience deck: Shuffle the Prescience card deck and place it face down.
10. Draw objective: The Atreides player draws a Secret Objective card — this defines their Prescience Point victory thresholds. Keep it hidden.
11. Deploy Harkonnen forces: Deploy Harkonnen units and leaders to Arrakeen, Carthag, and other starting positions as indicated in the setup diagram.
12. Deploy Atreides forces: Deploy Atreides units and leaders to their starting Sietches and positions as indicated in the setup diagram.

Player-count adjustments and additional steps available in the interactive app.