Cthulhu Wars - Season One - Nyarlathotep v Black Goat - Full Walkthrough
Welcome to pontos fathom hobbies Season One of Cthulhu Wars playthrough. This game feature a walkthrough of Nyralathotep versus Black Goat. Thank you for watching and let me know your thoughts in the comments below!
Welcome everyone to pontos fathom hobbies today i am going to be doing the setup for a two-player solo play but still a two-player walk through let's say of a cthulhu wars game between yarlathotep and black goat so i will kind of walk through the setup here i am not a really experienced go through the wars player so please comment below i appreciate your help in the setup and your patience if i make a mistake and this will be my first run through but i hopefully want to make this a series similar to my eldritch horror series where we'll do different playthroughs and different scenarios and then you know and then move on to maybe doing a live stream as the channel grows and and getting some other players in to do some live streams so just work working out the mechanics of it thanks for coming along with the ride i'm learning and hopefully you find it entertaining i also have another channel it's called pontos fathom press where it's small publishing press i talk about books there and this month is cthulhu month on both the channels so you know you know as we all know as cthulhu fans and lovecraft fans you know all of this comes out of this right this is the this is the the man but over on that channel i do talk about some things that are interesting about lovecraft i've got a i'm gonna be doing a lovecraft and the vril lovecraft and jung's black books lovecraft and just cosmic horror in general so i'll have a couple of those talks over on that channel so so please go over there and check it out it's a it's my my sort of my book channel this is my gaming and hobby channel also just the shameless plug there as you guys know paying the bills with august moldenhauer's genealogy of cthulhu the catholic journals out of lovecraft's providence i won't go into them a lot here i am working on a module for eldridge horror based on these so there there's going to be a video lovecraft in these books on the pontos fathom press channel and i'll also do a review of not only the series but each individual book and do some readings from them there.
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So without further ado let's kind of go into the setup here so i have already just taken some of the pieces out and framed the setup but i kind of will walk through the setup as i understand i've got the rule book here it's really a fantastic rule book from the big box game that i've got i'm just playing with the the two factions here crawling chaos and black goat and as you may know that i've done my somewhat better painted than some of my figures are painted better than others you know i've got neural orthotips figures here some of them i've not quite finished yet they're pretty pretty basic but at least they're table ready and we can get started with those the other thing is i also understand that there are some two player rules so let's just start out with the components here so first of all we got the board set up and we're using the three player board so for a two player game there are some alternate rules for that but you play using the three player board and it's also recommended to use the ritual track for four players by this rule book i know there's some different versions out there so so that's set up here the ritual track is set up there's also the doom track set up that will track our progress through the game the next components that are out here on the table let's go and talk about the player card sort of so each each of the players cards have a power counter so we all start an 8 power we also have different terms to gain our spells so this is our spell books and these will give us certain powers and then we have different actions you can perform to perform those spells so say for example on for a crawling chaos you can just pay for power so you move your power down by four and you can gain that spell and you can also combine them and just pay 10 power this is a four power payment a six power payment and then a group a joint power 10 payment you can get two spell books activated so this is a really fast way to move ahead some other control is to have three gates controlled or to have 12 power so if your power is up to 12 or if you can control three gates that's another mechanism move on to controlling four gates or 15 power get another book so first you have to buy then
we have to push on with more gates you can capture an enemy cultist and then finally when you awaken nyarlathotep you can get the final spell book okay and then on this side we've got the initial setup this is the initial step for the full game i will go on page 60 there's a two player version so let's just kind of walk through this and then we can talk about that so the initial setup is having the eight power eight six acolytes and controlled gate in the area with this glyph so this is the glyph of the controlling of the sorry the crawling chaos and that corresponds to asia on the simplified map so we've got our first gate spawned we've got our six acolytes here one of them taking possession of the gate and finally on the card we have the different units so as we mentioned we have acolytes we have the night gaunts here flying polyps again another one that's almost done painted but i think i've got a good base coat painting on these they're playable with this look right flying polyps here the hunting horrors and finally the great old one himself you all left okay so and then just the breakdown of these you have cultists monsters and great old ones so those are sort of the the level so as as we start out we're you know i guess the sort of the lore of cthulhu wars is that acolytes begin summoning monsters and then we start interacting with other cults across the board and then as we start spawning monsters through our gates we can use those monsters to attack each other and then finally when we get to a certain level of power we can awaken our great old one which is the establishment of our cult so in a weird way this is kind of the flip side play of eldritch horror eldritch horror we are investigators preventing the rise of the great old ones but in cthulhu wars we are the cultists trying to have the great old one and i think there might be some mash-up out there i haven't researched it yet but let me know in the comments if there is has somebody done a mashup of cthulhu wars in eldritura because i think that would be really cool where where there's a sort of maybe a a a dm kind of role or a you know a a monster player versus the investigators play so we can we can flip eldritch horror to semi-co-op where most of the players are co-op players and then there's one kind of dm player who can be the the and then we could use these great figures too as the cultist figure so anyway just leave me a comment
if there's anyone who's done that mod i'd be interested to know about it or we could hey we could work on it here finally just to spawn to awaken you're on the throtep you must have a controlled gate you have to pay 10 power points and then nyarlathotep appears at the controlled gate combat equals the total of both of you and your enemy's spell books and your faction cards and the harbinger post battle if nyarlathotep is in a battle in which one or more enemy great old ones are pained or killed you receive power equal to half the cost of the awakened old ones it says per enemy one great old one may choose to receive two elder signs instead of power so here's our elder signs here okay and then finally i just kind of read from the crawling chaos script on the back so it's kind of like a kindle looks like a kindle kind of thing it says crawling chaos they've got a great quote here from lovecraft it says i remember when nyarlathotep came to my city okay this is actually from it's from the neolithotep short story i guess a short writing a short prose writing by lovecraft i remember when your lethal came to my city the great the old the terrible city of unnumbered crimes my friend had told me of him and of the impelling fascination and allurement of his revelations and i burned with eagerness to explore their uttermost mysteries my friends said they were horrible and impressive beyond my most fevered imaginings and what was thrown on the screen in the darkened room prophesies things none but nyarlathotep dared prophecy and in the sputter of his sparks there was taken from men that which never had been taken before yet which they showed only in their eyes and i heard it hinted abroad that those who knew looked on sites which others saw not wow okay so that is the kind of intro of near lothotep coming to providence and then there's this ben monroe kind of quote here where it looks like it's on a device they've got these sort of fast-forward things here but between that it's like a kindle between the bums and the criminals nobody had ever really understood why san francisco had become the tech hub of the universe but it was and we were hooked every shiny new gadget debuted night in our right in our backyard and we snapped them up as fast as we could so it really came as no surprise to anyone with the most mind-shattering personal electronic device to hit the street yet was going to be unveiled at the moscone center i had a pal who had been reading up on it and he told me that things are going to change everything we knew everything we thought a device should be it was beyond the childish tinkering of the internet smartphones and such feeble toys it would take humanity to the next level of conscious altering communications it would take a true gestalt experience in which every mind was linked with every other one mind one thought one voice so we filled in in eagerly to the auditorium taking clean plush seats the throng buzzed with excitement as we guessed excitedly just what might be suddenly the stadium hushed its across nervousness replaced excitement as the great man himself took the stage and there he was in his trademark turtleneck and jeans looking for all the world even better than before the cancer had eaten away at him the press called it a miraculous recovery how little we truly knew as the keynote address began something odd happened our benefactor relinquished the stage to a man none of us had seen before tall and dark his eyes glinted like starlight as he approached the podium he smiled as he began to speak reasonably about the world the device and his plans for both his accent was liltingly middle eastern it immediately put us all at ease with its strange soporific quality after that i remembered little i recall the lights blinking out and then the images pouring from the projectors at the stage it was a sickly glow one that made me feel uneasy and slightly ill but i could not take my eyes off it images splashed across the screen at an agonizing rate kaleidoscopic splattering of baroque horrors i felt myself drawn further and further into the abyss of mania streaking across the screen after i don't know what happened the next thing i recall is walking down market street in a daze the sky overhead was sickly and tinged with green droplets of slime oozed over every surface the city was abandoned silent dead in my peripheral vision i saw inhuman shadows cavorting in a strange alien dance wow okay that is cool okay so some flavor text to get us to the game there is also some additional text i'll read those the the play kickoff texts that they have in here.
on turn one to start but let's just kind of go into black goat so again once again you guys may have seen the my painting video i've got black goat here painted pretty well i'm happy with it and i've got the the dark young interesting i i can't tell which is which but two of them i painted black to start with and then one of them i painted gray just oh two of them one of them i painted black this is the black one so he's a little bit darker and then it does have a different kind of look to it between the two but these are just fantastic sculpts there's mouths everywhere i use the blue to sort of contrast the red and black so these figures are all out and also the cultists are out here cultists are similarly set up again i'm not a real detail guy i mean i don't know if you guys can see that these are marginally painted but i'm happy with them i think that's it's cooler than using this garish color okay so again same setup we've got our oh we also have these these are not finished but again just a quick splash of red little green brains whatever that is and we can play with them and there's ghouls as well in the box here okay so black goat again we have a similar setup in the card we've got our starting power coin we have our spell books here and we have the different ways to achieve them have units in four areas so we're crawling chaos is kind of a power based black goat is about area based so if you have four areas you get one if you have six areas you get a second spell book and eight areas you get another one so they're just about spreading and multiplying as you eliminate two of your cultists as your actions eliminate two of your cultists from any area on the map so we have some cultists sacrificing share areas with all enemies both you and the enemy have units there so that's another thing sort of engaging spreading amongst the others which is another factor that i think kind of goes with the the maybe the dunwich horror in which sort of like mixing cross species mixing kind of horror and then finally awaken nigrath so that is the final sixth spell book so that's how we get those opened again we set up our acolytes we put our gate on the black goat sign so we're starting in africa with the black goat and then we also have our power set to eight and again i will read page 60 for the two player version so again our goals are the same get the great one awakened conquer areas let's go through our units so again we have the cultists six of them and one of them is on our gate we have the ghouls i think they're in the in the storage box here so yeah if you guys haven't checked it out please check out my very first custom storage solution this is where i store all my cultists and paintings as they are i didn't want them to really rub against each other so it's janky but it works and it's it's a pretty good fit for the box so you guys can check that out okay so here's the ghouls they are the monster so we've got acolytes ghouls fungi from ugoth the dark young which are really the greatest they're just awesome i mean they're just fantastic figures mouths and tentacles and hooves great sculpt and then finally we've got shub nigroth to awaken okay and again and once again same as we described in in nyarlathotep the acolytes spreading around the world opening gates monsters spawn they can engage with other monsters and also can hold territories and then finally how to awaken shove nigroth you have to control a gate and have two cultists on the map and they can be in any area you have to pay eight power so a little less power than crawling chaos but it's more about region regional control right so you have to have areas controlled and eight power and you remove your two cultists and then place shub nigrath at your controlled gate so you basically sacrifice two cultists or haven't eat them has however want to interpret it and then finally combat equals a total of the cultists plus your controlled gates and then choose an area and a faction swap the location of strip nigrath and a monster cult just in the area and then choose the faction owner and then let's read our flavoring text here so the black goat a cultivated male human voice it is the lord of the wood even too and the gifts of the men of lange for from the wells of night to the gulfs of space and from the gulfs of space to the wells of night ever the praises of great cthulhu of sathuga and of him who is not to be named ever there praise is in abundance to the black goat of the woods yeah young and then a buzzing imitation of human speech of the woods and the thousand young a recording from vermont documented by h.p lovecraft and then we got a sandy peterson journal entry here which is great kind of cool it's like a scrap of notebook and a handwritten font but dear journal this is billy i fed dupe today my mom gave me the dog food here boy i said the doggy ran to me and start to eat then i grabbed him gotcha and carried him to the basement the doggy whined i said here you go duke and duke goaded the doggy with cute crunchings i told duke he's got got to get used to the food sometimes i was lucky tonight i can't spend all my time looking for stray animals duke i have homework dear journal this is billy a bad thing happened duke saw something in the basement window and he struck and he struck out a big tentacle and grabbed mrs ramirez right off the writing lawnmower no no i shouted too late for mr ramirez i told mom duke ate the lawnmower ma'am and she was upset she said if dude kept acting out she might have to put him to sleep we have to be good neighbors but i love duke dear journal this is billy we took duke for a walk i asked dad why we have to walk duke at night other kids walk pets in the daytime dad said duke was very special he was a gift from the mother other people in town don't go to our church and they can't understand how special duke is i love duke another bad thing just before we got home mrs lundell came around the corner dad and me yanked at the leash but duke jumped at her and covered her with the squirmy stuff she yelled but not long dad said duke might have to go i shouted no i love duke and ran home dear adrenal this is billy mom says sometimes when pets get big they hear the call of the wild and are get hard to control i asked if duke might be might hurt us or mom or dad mom said no duke would never hurt us then i went to the basement and untied duke i pushed him out the basement window and i said run duke run don't come back they'll get you duke and i cried dear journal this is billy dad was disappointed i let duke escape he said we have to track him down duke was easy to follow but he left the big slime path mom said looks nice duke didn't go far the track was a circle he was in our porch i said duke no then dad sounded kind of happy and said maybe not dad said lots of animals act funny at certain times and they didn't mean that they're going wild he pointed i saw lots of crawling clusters in the patch for instance pets are about to have kittens yeah i guess to call duke duchess from now on i'm happy we can keep her okay so the transformation of the transformed animal great great great flavoring text so okay so i think we got our set up ready we've got our ritual track in place doom track in place got our card set up we've got our face play i will go quickly into the the rules for the two-player game and we'll make adjustments but hey thanks everyone for joining our setup please like or subscribe if you like what we're doing here check out the links to support the channel and check out turn one but the link will be here or here or here and see you soon thanks for watching bye bye
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