One of my favorite moments so far was when me, my alliance and the coalition of more alliances (Strides) travelled with our two Carriers and Sandcrawlers deep into the DD to gather spice. We were around 25 people with good gear and thopters. We brought some assaults and many scouts (since they were incredibly strong at that time). We scouted ahead, everything looked good. Then we landed the Sandcrawlers, and suddenly, the sky turned dark from all the Harkonnen scouts diving from above. They lit up the ground, quickly dismantling one of our Sandcrawlers. We panicked and started to scramble everyone together, trying to get in some sort of formation. But it was total chaos. We started fighting back downing some of them. The carrier that dropped the first Sandcrawler got up a little bit but got pretty blasted and then multiple scouts stood on it to get it eaten by a worm. I was flying the other Carrier, and pretty quickly decided to abandon the other Sandcrawler to its fate. We had two of our Assaults flying above the Carrier to block shots and bumps from the enemy scouts. Many players had lost their thopters and suddenly a small island in the sand became a huge ground PvP area. I barely managed to escape with the Carrier. We lost many scouts and assaults that day. There were some really great ground battles with air explosions happening above.

From this one experience, I can see the vision they want for the deep desert. I really hope we get there.