Dune: War for Arrakis
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Where is the Smugglers Base placed, what is on the Smugglers board in round 1, and how does the base defend?
Players agree on this reading, but most of it traces to one rules answerer and no official post confirms it.
Place the base in an empty Desert Area inside the blue-shaded zone on the placement map (the "lowest Sectors" means the bottom of the board), with no figures or tokens of any kind: not a Sietch area and never with a Wormsign. If no such area exists when the alliance happens, it waits until one appears. After the Start of the Round phase in round 1 the Smugglers board holds two units. The base has rank 3, so defenders get three extra Combat dice when it is attacked.