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News From PAX East

Hey fellow cultists - today Petersen Games announces are our next major game in partnership with the infamous Robot Entertainment! Orcs Must Die : The Board Game takes the tower defense game style and brings it to Kickstarter with terrific figures and game pieces (all 28mm scale, just like Cthulhu Wars).
We've been working on this prize project for several months now, cooperating with the brilliant minds of Robot Entertainment, and the game is far along. We'll have more exciting news (and pictures!) as we get closer to launching. Our current speculative launch date is about a month away.

Game Informer got a chance to talk with Sandy about the project. Read about it here. http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/03/06/orcs-must-die-unchained-set-to-invade-tabletops.aspx

At Petersen Games we are dedicated to fulfilling our promises. Check for exciting news on both Cthulhu Wars and Theomachy in the coming weeks.

Interesting to see the bit about "dedicated to fulfilling (their) promises". Only yesterday I received my base box from this Kickstarter - "only" 15 months late. Given that the base box is valued at about $100 in KS funds and I backed as a DVM ($525), they will have to forgive me but I'll be waiting for the other $400+ worth of product I've already paid for before even considering giving them any more money...

I tried checking for updates but all I get is spam.
Oh, and feth them! I almost forgot...

I worked on Shub Niggurath today:



Flying Polyp:



Shoggoth

Disgustingly nice work on all three!

Decided to make a print and play proxy set of the Underworld monsters for our games last night while waiting for the expansions to arrive this summer.


I decided to use 2 umber hulks from Dungeon Command as proxies for the Gug since that was the closest thing I had on hand at the time.


Though if you wanted to buy some real Gug miniatures, it looks like these are cheap and large:


Likewise I used Giant Spiders from the same Dungeon Command set for the Leng Spiders, though any spider miniatures would easily work:



And since I just got my copy of the Reaper Bones II kickstarter, I used the four Ghasts that it came with for my Ghast proxies.



I used Magic Set Editor to do the loyalty card layouts, using the Modern Magic Card template. The set editor makes it easy to add art or pictures that match whatever proxy miniature you find.
Pictures of loyalty cards here.

When exporting the images from Magic Set Editor to print, I found I had to change the image size down to 3.48"x 2.49" to make it the same size as Magic cards, then I just stuck them in a sleeve with an extra Magic common card behind it.

You can find rules for all the expansion and core set stuff at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/t7NQi5xTvTBp5yhlyEPJDPQ/htmlview?pli=1#

So, what's the status on the expansions? When am I going to finally get my Yog Sothoth And his gribbly minions?

 Barzam wrote:
So, what's the status on the expansions? When am I going to finally get my Yog Sothoth And his gribbly minions?

After about another 100 or so updates from the Petersens about their travels and other random Kickstarters.

Or after I peruse your figures since they're coming to my house!

Summer is the last update I saw for the rest of the stuff.

Managed to get three games played so far, and really enjoyed it. There are a couple of parts and tokens I'm still confused by, though. I guess as long as we're enjoying it, it doesn't greatly matter!

I am a bit ticked that simpler things like shirts couldn't be sorted earlier, but in theory it's to save on shipping?

What parts are you confused by? I am sure the community could help!

"Summer 2015"? June-August?

Yes nothing more concrete than this summer. They switched manufacturers and have high hopes, but they had high hopes with Panda too and had all kinds of unexpected delays and the games were not packed to specification leading to a lot more damaged parts than expected. Hopefully the new manufacturer fixes that, but until we get the product, who knows? There are some pictures of test production models from the new manufacturer in this thread.

Any rules confusion, post on Board Game Geek and the designers or someone in the community will answer you pretty quickly. That's pretty much the best source of info on what is going on with the game right now.

Despite them continually saying its not true that they favour BGG. Those feths!

I think summer might be a bit ...optimistic. Maybe September would be more realistic. And January-March '16 for AU!

Well if the new manufacturer actually does what they promised you should be the first to get stuff......

(but as said above whether they will or not who knows)

The plastic samples from the new manufacturer look good so far:

Never mind those silly models, I want to know what Sandy and his family are doing for Easter!

They had final copies of the expansion models at their retail launch party on Saturday, and they look great:

http://imgur.com/a/qAmWn

Purty!

Karazax wrote:
They had final copies of the expansion models at their retail launch party on Saturday, and they look great:

http://imgur.com/a/qAmWn

Wow. Loving the game, and really excited to get ahold of the expansions this summer...I've been holding off on a 5-player game until we can get the actual minis instead of PnP.

Another player on BGG made decal sheets for all the factions cultists to put on their robes and writing to put in the spell books.


There is a tutorial on how to print and apply decals here.

also some more shots of all the expansion models

Still in utter amazement of this game as it presently plays, though shuddering with anticipatory delight as to the expansions arriving later this year. 22 plays since the beginning of March, and still the only obstacle is real-life-grownup-stuff. Everyone wants to play the amazing emergent potential of this game!
When they see the upcoming factions, the salivation continues....

Sounds fun. Shame my group's copy has been sitting at one guy's apartment since it arrived. Scheduling conflicts everywhere, and no idea when we'll actually get a chance to play it.

balance change:
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1369165/rules-changes-cthulhu-wars
From Sandy Petersen:

While I regard Cthulhu Wars as one of the best-balanced games I've created in my career, in this world of tears and impermanence, nothing is perfect. I am making the following three balance changes to be published in the second edition of the rules, as well as on the Petersen Games website.

SHUB-NIGGURATH faction card

How to Awaken Shub-Niggurath
1) You must have a Controlled Gate, plus at least two Cultists anywhere.
2) Pay 8 Power
3) Remove two Cultists from anywhere on the map. Place Shub-Niggurath on your Controlled Gate.

SHUB-NIGGURATH spellbook
The Red Sign (ongoing) your Dark Young can now Build Gates, Control Gates, earn 1 Power each during the Gather Power phase, and add +1 apiece to Shub-Niggurath's Combat. They do not act as Cultists with respect to any other purpose.

GREAT CTHULHU faction card
Spellbook requirement
In the first Doom phase, receive this spellbook. Also receive 1 Elder Sign.

So hes not supplying an updated rulebook free to the backers? Jerk.

They will be offering updated components.

Because they are sold out of all the expansions before they even ship, they are planning on doing another kickstarter this summer for people who bought the core game and want the rest of the expansions, plus they will add a few new things for those who already have everything.

Last I heard, they were planning on giving updated components with these rule changes to everyone who pledges a dollar or more to that kickstarter. The reason being to help cover shipping, make sure they have the correct address still, and to allow people who didn't kickstart to upgrade their components with these rule changes. Most board games don't even bother with balance tweaks unless they print a new edition, so it seems fair to me.

6-8 Player map will now be expanded to all current backers!
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1395664/new-update-bigger-6-8-map
I hope this will be available for second round backers as well!

direhippo wrote:
6-8 Player map will now be expanded to all current backers!
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1395664/new-update-bigger-6-8-map
I hope this will be available for second round backers as well!

I think you may have misread the post- they're just making the 6-8 player map larger for all the people who had ordered that map expansion(or had just gotten the DVM pledge), not for all backers of Cthulhu Wars.

I think you may have misread the post- they're just making the 6-8 player map larger for all the people who had ordered that map expansion(or had just gotten the DVM pledge), not for all backers of Cthulhu Wars.

Sorry, I should have worded that differently. I was just so excited about the bigger map that will be coming with my shipment I didn't take the due diligence to clarify.
Thanks for pointing that out Drunken. I don't want to mislead anyone.

Any word on when were gettin wave 2 yet?