The Cthulhu role-playing game has been published in the German version since 1999 Pegasus Spiele. The epic Cthulhu board game Cthulhu Wars and four expansions have recently become available.
The Cthulhu myth has fascinated people worldwide since the 1930s. Countless novels, films, video, board and Roleplaying games, which are based on the myth of the so-called Great Old Ones - interstellar beings with supernatural powers - have since appeared.
In the field of board and role-playing games, the Cthulhu Mythos is closely associated with the name Sandy Petersen, who developed it into a horror role-playing game. Since Call of Cthulhu was first published in 1981, the success of the role-playing game, which has been published in the German version by Pegasus Spiele since 1999, has been unbroken. In addition to countless supplemental adventure and rule books that appear regularly, Petersen has also developed the Mythos into an epic, world-spanning board game - Cthulhu Wars.
Complex strategy for board game experts
In the complex strategy game, two to four players from the age of twelve slip into the role of Ancient Ones who, after defeating humanity, are now fighting to dominate the world. To do this, they themselves move across the huge playing field map of the earth and at the same time send their army into battle. Each faction has different, unique abilities. Players must use different tactics depending on whether they go into battle as Nyarlathotep, Shub-Niggurath, Hastur, or Cthulhu themselves.
In addition to the basic abilities of a faction, six spell books that can be unlocked during a game of Cthulhu Wars bring additional special rules and abilities into play. The epic gaming experience, which is easy to get started with despite complex, profound strategies, is atmospherically accompanied by high-quality miniatures - 64 of which are included in the basic game alone.
Four expansions were released at the same time as the Cthulhu Wars base game.
Guardians of the Way, Sleepers, and Windstrider each bring a new faction into play with associated miniatures, faction tokens/cards, and spellbooks. Each of these expansions increases the maximum number of players by one person. Yog-Sothoth (the guardian of the path), Tsathoggua (the sleeper) or Ithaqua (the wind strider) not only provide more variety and new challenges, but they also expand the battlefield with new competition in the fight for world domination. The Azathoth expansion also brings another faction into the game. However, this is neutral. The power over Azathoth, the ruler of all Kosmos, always takes over the person who awakens it first.
The base game is available now at an RRP of EUR 149,99, the expansions Wind Strider, Sleeper and Guardian of the Way for EUR 39,99 each and the Azathoth expansion for EUR 44,99.
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