In previous Cthulhu-themed board games, players usually played the role of a skilled investigator, in order to protect the peace and stability of the human world and various mythical creatures and evil gods to fight to the death.
The Cthulhu War, on the other hand, presents players with a more powerful picture of the apocalyptic future — the world has long since collapsed, humanity has perished, inexplicable deformed creatures roam the earth, and the earth has become a playground for the rulers of the past.
Although the era of humanity has come to an end, the struggle continues. Cthulhu Wars is one such fast-paced American zone control strategy game in an apocalyptic context.
In the game, the player will no longer act as the savior of mankind, but will act as a pagan leader who believes in an old evil god, and the goal is to gather the congregation, collect the mysterious pope cult, open the portal to the distant world, and summon the ancient gods lurking on the other side of the void.
When everything is ready, the great old rulers will descend on this world of destruction one after another to fight for dominance.
Sandy Peterson, the designer of "Cthulhu War", is one of the top senior players in the running circle. He is not only an avid lover of Cthulhu culture, but also a veteran scholar of LowRoean literature.
Since the 1980s, he has been working in the well-known TRPG publisher Chaosium for many years, during which he participated in the development of the first Cthulhu-themed board game in history, "Magic Town Horror", and the "Call of Cthulhu TRPG" created by him has become a major golden sign of Chaosium, and a large number of detailed festival settings have become the benchmark for posterity to create, and have played an outstanding contribution to the promotion of Cthulhu culture around the world today.
The Cthulhu War is Sandy's first board game released since he set himself up. It presented itself to players with a new perspective that had never been seen before, and raised more than $4 million on the foreign crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, which made the series famous.
In Cthulhu Wars, players can choose from four factions of old rulers: the Great Cthulhu, the Black Goat of Mori, the Chaos of Fuxing, and the Yellow Seal to compete for dominion of the Earth.
Each of the old rulers has a very different style and characteristic of the game - the Cthulhu faction is good at fast attack and can easily summon Cthulhu to the battlefield; Naia's troops are good at flying and can quickly cross the map to occupy land; the black goat is a weight win, using the sea of people tactics to overwhelm opponents; the Yellow Seal is the most special faction in the game, it does not aim at battle, but has its own unique way of scoring.
In addition, players can also unlock 6 spell books from their respective factions in the game to gain powerful special abilities while achieving one of the conditions for winning the game.
Spells are unlocked in a different order from person to person, which greatly enriches the tactical options of each faction, allowing you to get a completely different gameplay experience even if you play the same faction repeatedly.
The combination of faction-specific abilities and spell book systems forms a multi-layered tactical dimension, giving the game a strong strategic depth and reopenability. At the same time, the designers also pay great attention to the control of the balance of the game, and after years of version changes, the third version of the Cthulhu War is now presented to players.
Any Cthulhu-themed board game, we have to mention the large number and variety of mythical creatures and old-day relatives.
In the Cthulhu War, each faction is equipped with a characteristic clan creature corresponding to the ancient gods in addition to the low-level cults as tool people. Sandy Peterson gives full play to his profound academic background as a "keshi" in the representation of these inexplicable things, presenting the terrifying monsters depicted in the original love craft to the player in the most faithful and vivid shape.
The Cthulhu War provides a total of 64 miniature models with precise details, which intuitively reflect the differences in body size between various creatures through strong height contrast, and the old dominator model even reaches a staggering height of nearly 20 centimeters, with a visual expression that is unmatched in similar games.
The Cthulhu War, which is rich in strategy and exquisite models, is undoubtedly the most experienceable of its kind, and Sandy Peterson's professional blessing as the "father of modern Cthulhu" has made this game have an additional collection attribute in addition to the game.
The Chinese edition of the extraordinary epic Croat war masterpiece "Cthulhu War" has now begun to warm up in the "New Thing Collection", and on April 12, the "New Thing Collection" will participate in the great battle of the old rulers, ready to chant spells and destroy the world!