Dune II: Can Sandworms be killed?
Chris Becke
wrote:
> The title of the message states it all. My malicious streak is saying,
> "Go out and kill a worm!".
> Can it be done? What equipment will I need? And what do I get out of it?
Yes. Anything Big. It won't eat your harvester.
There are 2 easy ways to kill Sandworms:
1) Playing as Harkonen, your troops will shoot the sandworms. Shoot them enough,
and they die. Strangly they only need to be damaged halfway to die.
2) Feed them surplus troops or tanks. Just drive tanks over the worm to attract
it. After 4-5 tanks, the worm should die.
Chris.
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Mac
grom...@radisys.com (Garret Romaine) wrote:
>Wait. Did you say you made it disappear or that you blew it up?
>There's a difference. I've made worms disappear as well by driving their
>health into the yellow range. But I've never seen a sandworm with its
>health in the red zone.
I'm pretty sure I killed a sandworm once... it with right in front
of a group of about 20 rocket turrets and just got destroyed. It definitely
went into the red zone, but I guess it's technically possible that it simply
disappeared before it hit zero health... but it seemed like it was killed.
This only happened to me once, though... in the hundreds of hours I spent
playing the game.
Willem de Vries
>Yes. Anything Big. It won't eat your harvester.
Yeah right! NOT!!!
Many sandworms have eaten my harvester just when it was about to
deploy :(
>There are 2 easy ways to kill Sandworms:
>1) Playing as Harkonen, your troops will shoot the sandworms. Shoot them enough,
>and they die. Strangly they only need to be damaged halfway to die.
So they don't die. They just go down under.
>2) Feed them surplus troops or tanks. Just drive tanks over the worm to attract
>it. After 4-5 tanks, the worm should die.
Never tried that one. 'Think that doesn't work either...
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>
>Yes, you can shoot the worms until they die. Problem is that not
>all the units will shoot at them. Usually the Harkonan shoot them
>automatically. When a worm dies it leaves spice if it isn't in a spice
>field.
>
Cool! I have never seen a sandworm explode. Must be a giant explosion!
Sounds like it would be easier as Harkonnen. Must try!
Garret
Dan Merillat
> chr...@vironix.co.za (Chris Becke) wrote:
>
> >Yes. Anything Big. It won't eat your harvester.
>
> Yeah right! NOT!!!
>
> Many sandworms have eaten my harvester just when it was about to
> deploy :(
>
> >There are 2 easy ways to kill Sandworms:
>
> >1) Playing as Harkonen, your troops will shoot the sandworms. Shoot them enough,
> >and they die. Strangly they only need to be damaged halfway to die.
Atr. sonic tanks take 'em out _FAST_
>
> So they don't die. They just go down under.
>
> >2) Feed them surplus troops or tanks. Just drive tanks over the worm to attract
> >it. After 4-5 tanks, the worm should die.
>
> Never tried that one. 'Think that doesn't work either...
Yea, it does. The worm dosn't die: it gets full and never comes back.
Ever played with the fremen patches? Way cool! no tanks etc but you get the
sandworms as your very own munch anything the enemy has vehicle of death!
Of course, the 4 controll buttons for the sandworm are "Attack,"
"Attack," "Attack," and, of course, "Attack"
:-)
--Dan
Garret Romaine
>It definitely
>went into the red zone, but I guess it's technically possible that it simply
>disappeared before it hit zero health... but it seemed like it was killed.
>This only happened to me once, though... in the hundreds of hours I spent
>playing the game.
Good report! That's the kind of data I was looking for. To me, you only kill
a sandworm when you hear the explosion. I'm predicting that if you could trap
one and drive the health to zero, the explosion would be enormous. I'm just
wondering if there is a voice sample ("Sandworm destroyed") or some other cue.
Sorry to be such a pest. You're the first person I ever talked to who got the
health down that far!
Garret
grom...@radisys.com
Garret Romaine
>
>In article <xTPHuQI....@delphi.com>, Roger Harkavy <hark...@delphi.com>
>wrote:
>> The title of the message states it all. My malicious streak is saying,
>> "Go out and kill a worm!".
>
>> Can it be done? What equipment will I need? And what do I get out of it?
>
Where is this coming from? I've fed three harvesters to a single sandworm before.
>
>There are 2 easy ways to kill Sandworms:
>
>1) Playing as Harkonen, your troops will shoot the sandworms. Shoot them enough,
>and they die. Strangly they only need to be damaged halfway to die.
They don't die. They go away.
>2) Feed them surplus troops or tanks. Just drive tanks over the worm to attract
>it. After 4-5 tanks, the worm should die.
>
>Chris.
>
Chris, there's a big difference between killing a sandworm and making it go away.
I'm wondering if you ever heard an explosion. Sounds like you just fed it or
annoyed it. I'm not trying to be sticky, I'm just trying to "conduct research".
I really want to know if anyone has ever made a sandworm explode.
Garret
grom...@radisys.com
Alexander R J Wright
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: >2) Feed them surplus troops or tanks. Just drive tanks over the worm to attract
: >it. After 4-5 tanks, the worm should die.
: Never tried that one. 'Think that doesn't work either...
Each sandworm seems to have a quota of 3 objects. Feed them this, and they
dissapear for that particular mission.
They don't always appear to eat stationary objects though... I guess that this
is intentional, as they are supposed to be attracted to noise...
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Hugs,
Alex.
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Michael Cullen
Sandworms are actually quite easy to kill.
The best way to get rid of them (if you find them right at the start
of the mission) is to feed them harvesters. This is really only viable
if you have only 1 refinery. Empty the harvester and then drive it
around on the sand just in front of the refinery. It will be eaten by
the Sandworm. You will then have a new harvester delivered. Drive it
out onto the sand and allow the Sandworm to eat it. It takes about 5
or 6 and the Sandworm disappears.
Alternatively, line up your firepower along the edge of the rock and
use 1 vehicle to lure the Worm down into the kill zone. Attack with
all weapons. It takes time but is perfectly do-able.
cheers,
Mic.
james follett
> Cool! I have never seen a sandworm explode. Must be a giant explosion!
>
There's a hell of a bang when an Ordos saboteur and a worm try to
occupy the same spot at the same time. Both disappear.
James Follett -- novelist
Cheryl Coovert
grom...@radisys.com (Garret Romaine) writes:
>>automatically. When a worm dies it leaves spice if it isn't in a spice
>>field.
or, maybe lure it in to a devastator, and then selfdestruct it as its
getting eaten or something....
-Geo
Garret Romaine
>I don't take the worms out. I just harvest and move the harvester onto rock
>when one comes near. I keep my eye on the radar, looking for the white dots.
That can get really old when you need money and there are three worms
dogging your harvester!
>Where can I (we) get this Fremen Patch?? Sounds great! 8-)
>I'm sure it'd be very much appreciated if you would tell us where.
>
It's the Super Dune II hack.
Garret Romaine
grom...@radisys.com
Garret Romaine
Anyone who has played this game has fed sandworms and gotten rid of them.
To me, that is like feeding lions at the zoo. Not killing them. I have
attacked them and pushed their health into the yellow zone, at the half-
way point, and they also go away. Neither of those scenarios actually
kills the worm. It only makes it go away. Do you see the distinction now?
I'm not talking about feeding the worm, or annoying it. I'm talking about
destroying it. I've never been able to do it, and never seen it done,
and never heard of it, until the report cited above.
Garret
grom...@radisys.com
Marcel_Kluin
>From: grom...@radisys.com (Garret Romaine)
>Subject: Re: Dune II: Can Sandworms be killed?
>Date: 22 Jan 1996 22:32:42 GMT
>In article <DL88DI.HFx.0.sta...@dcs.ed.ac.uk>, ra...@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Ralph Holland) says:
>>When I have done this, I have attacked them with missiles,having fed them with damaged
>>tanks and blood appears and a huge supply of spice. The easiest way of getting spice!!!
>>So I'm not sure that it is dead but, the blood, spice and it's total disappearance
>>sure seem good signs to me. Sorry if I'm being naive here!!!
>>
>>The Prisoner
>No, not naive. I've never been able to hit a worm with a missile, so
>I think that you've supplied good info. Especially noting the rest of
>your evidence: lots of spice!
>Apparently you're saying there is no "unit destroyed" voice message,
>or any other cue? Oh well. That spice had to come from somewhere!
>Garret Romaine
>grom...@radisys.com
you CAN kill sandworms in dune II.
Marcel Kluin
Archie Chen
: >Garret Romaine
: >grom...@radisys.com
But they usually run away when thier life meter is half way down.
jmannell
book it makes sense about the worms.
Too bad can't just dump water then lots of spice.
How good is Dune 1?
James
Garret Romaine
>I've only got them down into the yellow and anyone has read the first
>book it makes sense about the worms.
>Too bad can't just dump water then lots of spice.
>How good is Dune 1?
>
>James
>
Not many people liked Dune I. I have the disks somewhere, but I got it
after Dune II and I never was able to get into it very much. Does anyone
know if there was ever an FAQ written for Dune I?
Garret Romaine
grom...@radisys.com