>Fremen<

Fremen are really poor at the beginning, but can afford to sacrifice troops because of their high revival rate. They only become strong near the end of the game.

Start of the game:

The best place to start your 10 troops on planet is generally in one stack on False Wall South. This is because you can bring tokens for free onto the other side of the board if the spice does blow there, and therefore gives you great coverage of the entire board with your two movement rate. Don't split the stacks - in the first few rounds you will most likely have to dial high to win battles, and you will have little cash to back troops. Have 1 Fedaykin in your starting stack, but no more than that as your troops are most mobile when they are off-board.

Probably the most important thing to emphasize is that you need to start spice grubbing straight away if you hope to be a power in the game, but be careful with your leaders. No-win battles with Harkonnen can be especially painful as you will lose two leaders if they remember to steal the extra leader that they get when they win a battle. Incidentally, you are under no obligation to remind them should they forget. Early on you should not be afraid to let some troops die before the storm in order to grab some spice that everyone else is afraid to chase. Try to avoid battles...but somehow or other you've got to get spice and treachery cards!

Against the other powers:

Guild: If and when you must fight the other powers, your easiest battles will tend to be with Guild, who can pull few surprises and over whom you have an advantage in both troops and leaders. Despite that, the main reason you'd fight Guild would be in a seitch for the game because it's not likely you'll see them spice grubbing.

Harkonnen and Atreides: They are both dangerous as they tend to have good leaders and cards. If you ever see a weak Harkonnen with few cards you can give them a good kicking as they can't really pull any surprises...other than traitors! Don't be fooled by relatively low numbers of Harkonnen or Atreides troops - in the early game they can often rely on killing your leader and saving their own, so you have to be capable of outdialling the total of leader + troops. That said, if you're going to win you are inevitably going to have to fight one or other of them for spice.

Bene Gesserit: Aren't too bad to fight; sure, they have the Voice, but they tend to have so few tokens on planet that you can often out-dial them just on troops.

Emperor: He is a pretty even match - you have better leaders and their Sardaukar don't count against you - but early in the game they can be dangerous as they will almost certainly hold more treachery cards and spice than you do.

Winning the game:

All that said, until you actually try to capture sietches and win the game, the people you are most likely to come into conflict with are Harkonnen and Atreides, as none of the other powers have quite the same need to chase the spice blow.

Your best opportunities to win the game occur with a Karama or a Hajr because of the combination of surprise and mobility that they give you. But if you are lucky enough to get a worm under a largish stack, consider going in to Arrakeen or Carthag - that way you will have ornithoptors at the start of movement (and you can always flee the battle if it looks unwinnable).

Don't try and protract the game for a turn 15 win as a deliberate strategy. Your special win condition is almost impossible to pull off given that Guild will move last and jump on your weakest stack.

>Bene Gesserit<