Be honest, how hard would you shit your pants if they showed up?
You could be in the middle of a fully garrisoned U.S. marine base with tanks and elite units and it wouldn't matter.
SARDAUKAAAAAAAAAAAAARRR!!!!
Be honest, how hard would you shit your pants if they showed up?
You could be in the middle of a fully garrisoned U.S. marine base with tanks and elite units and it wouldn't matter.
>guys with guns can't take out guys with orc swords
inb4
>"muh shields"
all you have to do is hit their shields with a laser beam and you have an atomic explosion. it's in the lore dunetards.
marines have two kinds of lasers sights on their rifles
the atomic explosion kills the lasgun user too ya IDIOT
>the atomic explosion kills the lasgun user too ya IDIOT
Why not just snipe them from further away then?
You need to be in outer space to be safe and it is a plot point that the Atreides have to sleep in underground bunkers to avoid being lasgunned in the night.
Jesus good God frick , because it's an atomic fricking explosion
they have these things called drones and yes they have machine guns and lasers on them.
What is the Great Convention?
The use of atomics against humans is a big no-no.
Dont know where a Lasgun triggered nuke fits in but its probably close to frick around and find out.
The forms must be obeyed anon.
thank god we don't have to abide by Dunes arbitrary and contrived rules.
yeah and herbert also makes it clear that houses break. every. single. rule.
*closes steel door*
Besides that badass ritual scene, they looked kinda weak.
I dont find the star citizen astronaut look particularly intimidating.
if that actually went of for the star citizen look it would've been a massive upgrade. these guys are clearly just wearing white coveralls with a little padding. fricking storm trooper armor from 1970 something was more intimidating that than these cheap as frick costumes.
sardaukar is such a stupid name. couldn't take them seriously with that name. it's such a bullshit try hard fantasy name
Did you want them to subvert your expectations by naming themselves the baloney pony brigade?
yes. or, you know, something that doesn't sound like audible contagious mental moronation
They are waterfat and probably majority homosexual. If I saw a group of these bufoons plodding around the desert I would get on my knees and BEG the maker to bring stronger enemies.
These so called elites lost every fight they've ever been in. Even the sandBlack folk were scarier and they got humiliated by a 16yo rich kid.
Huh? These boys made the Atredies so called "elites" look like chairdogs.
Which only makes the Artreides look even worse somehow.
Artreides < Suckdaukar < random sandBlack folk < a 16yo boy < actually competent soldiers (assuming such a thing exists in this universe)
So what's the deal with the shields? They say "the slow blade penetrates the shield" but then some projectiles go through it, and anyone seems to be able to stab through it just by going "gwaaah" first.
Like they bomb this runway full of spaceships, an every spaceship has a shield, but whatever the bombs are just the kind that make red sparks instead of blue sparks so they work fine.
It's a shield that basically stops working when you need it to. You wouldn't bother using them on a construction site.
>So what's the deal with the shields?
Stupid bullshit that was stupid even in the books.
Aside from the main city on Dune, shields are useless because they attract sandworms.
>So what's the deal with the shields?
Plot device so that Herbert could have melee fights in a sci-fi series.
pretty much this
also in the books if a shield gets hit by a laser (called a lasgun) it causes a massive nuclear detonation. it's not like the houses in dune were afraid of using drones, cannon fodder soldiers, or bobby traps. if all you need is two common items (a shield and a lasgun) to create an atomic explosion the "empire" in dune wouldn't last a day.
these dudes were hardcore
why do people shit on the set and costumes when the fighting and effects are so shitty? that "guys on a wire but its not a wire" effect looks like something from a chinese moive. the same with the silly flipping spastic fighting with no weight
The costumes suck.
The book guys were probably meant to look like medieval persian or turkish soldiers.
>medieval persian or turkish soldiers
so, nothing like your picture then?
You're moronic
these guys job harder than storm troopers
frick off, magic force fields don't exist in real life
Guys in Alibaba motorcycle jackets really aren't that scary
why do they use weird swords instead of guns?
Obama.
obama sword?
Because Herbert wanted them to use swords and knives.
The in-universe explanation is that personal shields, capable of blocking any matter moving faster than a certain speed, became ubiquitous among the great houses. Shields would also cause a mutual explosion if hit with a laser gun.
The only way to (safely) kill a noble was to stab them with a blade moving slow enough to pass through the shield, but fast enough that they can't move out of the way.
yeah. and since the houses were hell bent on destroying each other there is now way that the dune empire would last even one day. again, two common items are all you need for a nuke. Herbert unintentionally made terrorism and assassination ridiculously easy in his IP
Who said it's easy to create a laz gun?
How would anyone get close to the emperor when he lives in space where the only means of traversing is spice which he owns and distributes to loyal houses.
It's fricking funny how you try and poke holes needlessly. Nobody makes lazguns because they neither work, are unpredictable, probably banned, are complicated and everyone signed a treaty. I'm not even looking up the canon but like you I'm rationalizing in my head.
>The only way to (safely) kill a noble was to stab them with a blade moving slow enough to pass through the shield, but fast enough that they can't move out of the way.
why don't they just use a knife gun then?
dune is so gay lmao
Why does this thread and it's verbatim replies keep showing up? Are mods just copy and pasting it when the website is slow, so that the forum appears busier?
oh shit he knows
>not a marvel thread, general, or shill thread
>WTF it must be the mods
you're fricking moronic
The only decent scene in the movie.