Dune: Spice Wars - House Harkonnen Strategy Guide
House Harkonnen is used to being in charge, and their play style in Dune: Spice Wars is about showing everyone on Arrakis who's boss. Whether they're working their serfs to the bone in factories or terrorizing the locals to cow them into submission, the Harkonnens excel at throwing their weight around.
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While they might seem like a purely militaristic faction at first - and their military is certainly a critical component of their overall strategy - House Harkonnen is actually an economic powerhouse. Played correctly, the Harkonnens can outproduce their rivals with ease... just so long as they can keep their labor force in line.
Since Dune: Spice Wars is in early access, the content of this guide are subject to change as the game's development process continues.
The key to House Harkonnen's strategy lies in their Oppression ability. By spending a small amount of Manpower, House Harkonnen can triple the construction speed and resource production rates of a Village they control for two in-game days (one real-time minute on normal game speed). At the end of that time, the Village will temporarily suffer a small production penalty and have a chance of spawning a rebel uprising.
The drawback to the Harkonnens' labor practices is that their Villages always suffer a global production penalty of ten percent. This penalty can be offset by keeping each Village garrisoned with militia - each militia unit in a Harkonnen Village increases the Village's production by five percent. This means that every Village with three or more militia will outproduce an identical Village owned by a different faction!
Politically, House Harkonnen has been on Arrakis for a very long time. Their
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