How to WIN Cthulhu Wars according to the designer

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5 жыл бұрын

Sandy explains how to win Cthulhu Wars, and goes Faction by Faction how to exploit their unique abilities and features!
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Petersen Games was founded to make games with top-grade components, amazing art, and great depth of gameplay. We are explicitly trying to provide a luxury, high-end product for the hobby community.
We got our start decades ago when Sandy Petersen first conceived of the idea of doing a roleplaying game based on H. P. Lovecraft’s stories. That original idea, the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game, is still in print today. Since that time Sandy has worked on many tabletop products, including helping with the development of the original Arkham Horror board game. He also spent almost 20 years in the computer gaming industry as a designer on the teams that produced Civilization, Doom, Quake, the Age of Empire series and Halo Wars. He returned to the world of tabletop gaming with the famed Cthulhu Wars strategy game and is now Chief Creative Officer of his own company.

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@MattCrawley_Music 4 жыл бұрын

He says dont do negotiating, but isn't that a big part of the Ancients Faction? Bribing other players with extra power

@TheYgds Жыл бұрын

Someday, when the stars are right, the Cthulhu Wars core game will have another production run. Until then, I lie dead dreaming.

@ajp.4739 5 жыл бұрын

more and more cthulhu wars action i hope this leads to onslaught 4

@jamesrose1460 5 жыл бұрын

Onslaught 4 will be something new...at least one more faction...but can not talk too much...other than the initials are DS

@ajp.4739 5 жыл бұрын

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@MattCrawley_Music 2 жыл бұрын

Still waiting for onslaught 4...

@MattCrawley_Music Жыл бұрын

Still waiting for onslaught 4.

@marksherlock2389 7 ай бұрын

I have a question that I’m unable to find an answer for so I would like to ask you about player order. While sitting at the table how do you determine who sits next to who around the table which will create player order for the game. I understand that The Great Cthulhu goes first and after that the player with the highest power becomes first player and picks the direction. My question is based on sitting at the table and who sits next to whom. Does everyone sit next to the map by their factions Glyph so it’s an easy reach to the Cultists as the game play begins? I believe there is a rule on WindWalker and Opener of the Way order of picking Area starting spots but who sits in what order around the table? I have purchased 4 extra expansion Factions and as they are added into gameplay I’m not sure what the seating order around the table should be or how to go about selecting seats at the map/table?

@Amitloaf 5 жыл бұрын

I'm confused. Sandy says in 24:10 that crawling chaos is the only faction which can't get power during gather power. What does that mean?

@gregrobertson2037 5 жыл бұрын

He means that you have to use "Harbinger" and "Thousand Forms" during your turn in order to benefit from the abilities. They cannot be used in the "Gather Power" phase.

@LFGtaku 5 жыл бұрын

Hello, it’s possible you upload doc support plz ?

@MrN0b0dy85 8 ай бұрын

Is there a Cthulhu wars discord?

@angiesimard9460 5 жыл бұрын

Seriously, shoggoth is just useless with spell book. Eliminate a unit for three dices, it is rarely a gainful move in battle. at least if the ability had been; elimiate a unit for switch pain to kill or gain a kill, there's a good shoggoth. :)

@avail447 5 жыл бұрын

Honestly the absorb ability is extremely powerful. We use it often. three more dice in a combat is amazing!

@angiesimard9460 5 жыл бұрын

@@avail447 no, abduct is powerful spell book, channel power is extremely powerful and terror is terrible overpowered. Absorb, just no!

@guyblin 5 жыл бұрын

Absorb's great for assassinating GOOs.

@angiesimard9460 5 жыл бұрын

@@guyblin If you are lucky, you could do much damage to the enemy but at what price. The game require that player will control must (in general) Gates so any loss unit will be detrimental to the control or maintenance of the area.

@avail447 5 жыл бұрын

Clearly you are new to Cthulhu Wars. It is One of our groups favorite games. We have been playing it for years and are all very competitive. Frogs and cultists make wonderful Shoggoth fodder and interconnect well with abilities such as dreams and devolve. You would be terrified if you saw what we are capable of using absorption.