Dune Imperium's Rise Of Ix expansion is out now, adding new leaders and a new mode to the digital board game

I've gotten hooked on Dune Imperium, a deck-building and worker-placement digital board game that I'm just starting to wrap my head around. Here's some news that'll make my head spin again: the Rise Of Ix expansion is out now, adding three new factions, six new leaders, a new mode, and more.

The Rise Of Ix expansion is currently only available for the Steam version of the game and costs £8.50.

Ix adds additional strategic layers to the existing game, including a technology path for players to advance along and new dreadnought units that can be used during battle. All of these are represented as new areas on the board where players can send their agents.

There are also 35 new cards to add to your deck, and a new Epic Game Mode where players fight for 12 victory points instead of the base game's 10. I wished almost every match I played in Dune Imperium was longer, and I'm curious to see if this could fulfill that wish.

The update also comes with a number of bug fixes for the base game, including improvements to the AI ​​that takes control when players are pulled out of the game, improvements to the AI's behavior when playing Staged Incident, and various improvements to combat gameplay.

Earlier this month, Sin played both the recent Dune strategy games, Imperium, and its real-time cousin Spice Wars, and found both to be successful adaptations despite, or because of, everything they omitted from the source material.

I haven't played Spice Wars, which means I can safely say that Imperium is definitely better. I'm not sure if I'll dive into Rise Of Ix right away – I don't feel like I'm bored with the base game yet – but I'll definitely get into that when the time comes.

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