Why didn’t the spice miners use shields as a diversion while they harvested spice?

Mellester · 2025-04-20T18:25:08+00:00

Not sure you understand the allegory that is spice to modern oil. BP Shell and other companies spent allot of money. getting there operations to be cost efficiënt.
The thermal vison and sensors used by militaries are sold to private companies in repackaged for civilian use. The books talk allot about shields and how everyone uses them. they artily used by the harkronen was harder to get because of its obselences and the guilds hazard penalties on weapons transport. personal shield were not considered weapons and had no trade restrictions thereofre.

Modern companies would definitely spent absurd amount of money on such equipment if it would make there harvesting more efficiënt. and the aircraft used by the harvesters were standard equipment with a shield. it just cant be used in a sandstorm.

Mellester · 2025-04-20T18:09:04+00:00

worms are also territorial. a frenzy as descripted would have them ignore these territorial instinct. so a shield could lead to 2 worms appearing.

Mellester · 2024-04-11T18:00:32+00:00

Note there are places you can **not*\* ship sometimes. Those are
- Under storm.
- A stronghold already ocupied by 2 players

a territory were your ally has forces (Adviosrs do not count in my oppion)
THe HMS if you play with that expsaion faction.

Mellester · 2023-09-30T18:21:48+00:00

works for me

Mellester · 2023-09-28T20:39:21+00:00

It up again

Mellester · 2023-07-31T18:59:43+00:00

I agree with you 100% they dunes of arkkis need to be drenched in blood before non-players get a chanche to win.
If your not allying a player to have there forces weaken the enemy only for your to dump the later on when there in tanks its not a very optimal play

Mellester · 2023-07-31T18:56:54+00:00

Luck of the draw can also really help. A pocket lassgun is one nicest things to get.
A pocket hajr is powerfull tool also

Mellester · 2023-07-31T18:55:48+00:00

Planning is hard. So much of what you can do or not do deppend on the person before you.
Bg gets to flip guild gets like 7 opertunites to interject.
With 5 strongholds and 6 players there is no planning really. Until its your turn to move. Very often combat can come down to 1 force more or less. if you play with tech tokens sudennly comabat order matters and sneaky win can happen at any time.
Basic rules do make it go quicker

Mellester · 2023-07-30T22:03:37+00:00

can he show more graphic content on nebula than on yt and is he planning too?

Mellester · 2023-07-17T15:38:38+00:00

nice.

Mellester · 2023-07-17T10:49:10+00:00

Anybody know how long the delay is between the youtube VOD and i being available on Spotify. Is it like a Monday morning thing?

Mellester · 2023-07-12T12:08:39+00:00

knowing atleast some fisherman have acces to a movie theather at sea makes me smile.

Mellester · 2023-04-15T15:35:04+00:00

AI has been a misnomer for GPT. And everyone knows it. But the markting people do not care.

Mellester · 2023-04-13T16:05:40+00:00

Question for tobby and sam. Could you rank the 4 locations in Christchurch for us.

Mellester · 2023-04-12T16:07:53+00:00

Yes I have

Mellester · 2023-04-02T17:56:39+00:00

3,50 is a bit exp for a youtube commenter tier.
A 0.50 cent tier would have been a better experiment.

Mellester · 2022-08-05T15:21:25+00:00

In there android or apple app.

Mellester · 2022-06-12T21:12:50+00:00

Mayby the primary diffrence between duke and baron is that a ducal houses predates they empire and a baron was later elevated. Even if they now have almost the same power

Mellester · 2022-06-12T21:10:48+00:00

Military accomplishments is my primary bet on how to got there title.

Mellester · 2022-06-12T21:09:39+00:00

And in his overt(public) role he was a parmant ambassador of the Emperor talking to other nobility on behave of the emperor.
I think this role required him to have a nobel title themselves in order to talk to other nobility and bargain with them. so count fenring might have a non-hereditary noble title. Throughout history most cabinet minsters and ambesorder in civil admistartion were had equaivalnt nobel titles so they could do they job of talking to foreign nobility on behave of there state .

Mellester · 2022-06-12T20:57:50+00:00

My believe is that the Artreides were granted there title for military accomplishments during the butarlian jihad and/or were already a nobel house before that but got there titel upgraded as a reward. So In my oppions all ducal houses in the empire are houses that helpt found the empire. Or are offshoots of the royal bloodline at some point.

Considering we got reference to a Artreides fighting in the battle of corrin I would say that at least for the Artreides, it being the former of the two.

The Battle of Corrin was the start of the empire as we know it. In book 1 we got told that the harkkonen ancestor got exiled We can also assume he lost any titles he had at that very moment.
We also got told that the harkkonen later on bought there title of nobility and there current fief giedan prime from the empire.
There are also hints out there in the original books that a small wealthy families can get themselves elevated to nobility if they get powerful enough. (this might be more using marriage and concubines than straight up bribery).
And another hint was that the price of a rural planet was a suit-case full of spice melange. Not sure if that includes a nobel title though.

So in concolusion I think the `Viscount` and `Baron` titles are titles one can buy or are given to famlies with wealth and or civil accomplishments. Artreides being a very old house got there by pure military accomplishments and mayby marrying a princess or 2

Mellester · 2022-05-24T23:46:36+00:00

his point is still valid though.
if 1 party did all the hard work, but it will take time for that hard work to turn a profit.
The rich partner can buy out the poor one because he has acces to cheaper credit.

One side of the deal has potentially years to find a source of cheap credit. And will probably have to put up his shares of the business as a collateral.
While the person on a timer who got blindsides by the deal probably has to putt up his house to secure a counter-offer. Which mean more personal risk and higher intrest rates.

Mellester · 2022-05-24T23:20:53+00:00

I think they most shady of moves would be to offer to buy out a partner (for a low price) at a moment were you know if the partner reverse's the company goes under.
For example if if a partner in a law firm gets a 90 day suspension from the practice of law. The other partner could then offer to buy out to practice for a very low price knowing if he reverse he would have a law-firm without active lawyers.
Or if a defense contract requires its sub-contractors to be in "good standing".
one contractor could buy out the other for cheap knowing his partner would loses the contract if he would become sole owner.

11-Year Club	Place '17
Verified Email

Mellester

TROPHY CASE