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There is the potential for a skirmish game in 28mm, that could involve fighting on top of a sandworm.



Alternatively, a 15mm or 6mm game involving larger forces and ornithopters, and so on.

The thing is, most combat in Dune is hand to hand, because of the shield technology, so it's more limiting in the range of tactical situations. Basically there isn't any shooting.

Avalon Hill published a strategic Dune game in 1979. It's been OOP for years, of course, but the rules are available as a PDF if you wanted to make your own board and stuff.

I actually played it at university, but I can't remember any details about it.

Bene means 'well' (adverb) in Latin, hence benediction, benevolent, and so on.

Write some rules and send it to them for consideration. Their B5 books format is ideal for that kind of project, and they must be looking for new material.

I'm not seeing Dune combat as very interesting, to be honest.

The use of the shield means that practically all fighting is a sort of slow motion knife fighting, except if you are actually on the planet Dune itself, where the worms attack shields.

It could work as a specialist fencing game, I suppose, but once you get into a lot of detail of individual movement, wargames tend to get boring and unrealistic.

I can't remember if Fremen use missile weapons on Arrakis.

Judging by the book description I take the "Weirding Way" to be a kung fu style martial art incorporating the kind of neuro-muscular-conditioning and psychological observation techniques involved in the Bene Gesserit and similar mental-physical-philosophical training, that has special techniques for shield fighting.

There's some lovely ornithopter pics in a gallery by a member.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/gallery-search.jsp?dq=Ornithopter&paintjoblow=0&paintjobhigh=10&coolnesslow=0&coolnesshigh=10&auction=0&skip=30&ll=3&s=mb&sort1=7&sort2=0

The model was converted from the Revell kit of the Obi Wan Kenobi starfighter out of Star Wars.