Fuschia tude posted:

Not quite, but they were getting up there. With a fighting forced motivated and skilled enough to approach his own, combined with the Duke's growing popularity in the nobility, the Emperor feared he could seriously challenge his own power. And it wasn't 1 Atreides fighter = 1 Sardaukar anyway so much as the attackers just came with overwhelming numbers. What they were no match for was a sneak attack with an exorbitant number of troops while a traitor let them in undetected and the majority of the defenders were pinned down in caves underground by artillery bombardment.