The Weekender: Achtung!!! Cthulhu!!!
March 16, 2013 by dignity
Video Sponsors: Infinity - Wayland Games
It's that time of the week again and this time we've got Achtung! Cthulhu on the schedule with all the latest happenings and progress of this monster kickstarter. So guys sit back with your coffee and enjoy the madness as we delve in to the game, and if you're one of our proud Backstagers keep an eye out later today as we have a little mythos treat for all of you...
And don't worry guys if you think we missed out on something, here are all the links to everything we couldn't fit in to chat about:
The Latest in the World of Wargaming:
Warmachine & Hordes Upcoming Releases
http://privateerpress.com/
//www.beastsofwar.com/hordes/warmachine-hordes-deadly-hunters/
//www.beastsofwar.com/hordes/reinforce-skorne-circle-orboros-factions-hordes/
Star Trek: Attack Wing
http://wizkidsgames.com/startrek/
//www.beastsofwar.com/sci-fi-wargaming/herocliz-ffg-team-star-trek-attack-wing/
Forge World Necrons
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/
//www.beastsofwar.com/warhammer-40k/forge-world-search-tomb-worlds-necrons/
Planet Steam Board Game
http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=240&enmi=Planet%20Steam
//www.beastsofwar.com/board-games/conquer-planet-steam-production-trade/
Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport Expansion
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/134342/lords-of-waterdeep-scoundrels-of-skullport
//www.beastsofwar.com/board-games/head-lords-waterdeep-raid-skullport/
Dystopian Wars League of Italian States
http://www.spartangames.co.uk/
//www.beastsofwar.com/dystopian-wars/league-italian-states-rides-wave-dystopian-war-releases/
Heroes of Normanide Kickstarter
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1538673930/heroes-of-normandie
//www.beastsofwar.com/board-games/heroes-normandie-devil-pig-games/
Wargames Factory Apocalypse Survivors
http://www.wargamesfactory.com/
//www.beastsofwar.com/wargames-factory/wargames-factory-preview-male-survivors/
Ramshackle Games Drone Walker
http://www.ramshacklegames.co.uk/
//www.beastsofwar.com/ramshackle-games/ramshackle-games-send-drone-walkers/
Flames of War: Tour of Duty
http://www.flamesofwar.com/
//www.beastsofwar.com/flames-of-war/tour-duty-vietnam-flames-war/
Warmachine Dice
//www.beastsofwar.com/warmachine/privateer-qworkshop-team-faction-dice-sets
Release Watch;
Chaos Daemons Battalion/Battleforce
http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/games-workshop/warhammer-40k/chaos-daemons/chaos-daemons-battalion/battleforce/prod_19912.html
Cygnar Tempest Blazers
http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/privateer-press/warmachine/cygnar/cygnar-tempest-blazers/prod_19725.html
Hordes Gargantuans Soft Cover
http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/privateer-press/hordes/hordes-gargantuans-soft-cover/prod_19726.html
Hordes Gargantuans Hard Cover
http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/privateer-press/hordes/hordes-gargantuans-hard-cover/prod_19728.html
Forum Posts:
Infinity
//www.beastsofwar.com/groups/infinity/forum/topic/the-sphinx-is-a-bitch/
//www.beastsofwar.com/groups/tabletop-nation-general-discussion/forum/topic/starting-infinity-1/
Demons
//www.beastsofwar.com/groups/chaos-demons/forum/topic/new-daemons-codex/
//www.beastsofwar.com/groups/warhammer-fantasy/forum/topic/new-daemons/
Beating Ogre Kingdoms
//www.beastsofwar.com/groups/warhammer-fantasy/forum/topic/beating-oger-kingdoms/
My journey into Dystopian Wars
//www.beastsofwar.com/groups/tabletop-nation-general-discussion/forum/topic/my-journey-into-dystopian-wars/
am I missing something? where is the vid? I only see a screenshot?
nevermind, I was just a little premature, again
Fixed now
Ming the linkless strikes again!
OK how about this for a character Daniel Fitzgerald – Irish immigrant who moved to mainland Europe in the Mid 30s after been forced from his small, narrow minded village after becoming interested and doing research into the occult, after trying to figure out why people were going missing from the sleepy hollow from where he lived. Accused of satanism he fled, But when he moved he continued his research, but opened up a carpentry business to keep himself funded, a trade he learned from his father. His years working a hard trade has made him relatively athletic, and he… Read more »
One or two lines? Puh-lease, I’m a roleplayer, man! Several paragraphs incoming..
Also, where was the hi-five for Chris? I demand somebody hi-five him as he’s a guy from a company who will soon be re-introducing the world to the Mutant Chronicles RPG 😀
Okay, here goes: Name: Mechtilde Königsfeld “I do not pretend to understand the horrors of which you speak, Professor Deadman, but I have seen all that I need to see. I love my country and that is why I must spare it this madness.” If a GI was asked to describe what they thought a typical German barmaid would look like, they would be describing Mechtilde Königsfeld to a tee. Born in the border town of Regnitzlosau, Mechtilde was practical rather than academic and never strayed far from home. In her teens she worked in several factories and workshops before… Read more »
My character: Michelle Lafayette. Before the war, Michelle’s father was a wealthy industrialist with a penchant for research into the arcane. At an early age, Michelle learned to pick the lock of his study and learned all he knows. This knowledge would be enough to send your average French schoolgirl to the assylum but Michelle’s extraordinary strength of mind means she survived, ready to fight for humanity’s survival. Michelle was 16 when France fell to the Nazis and she immediately recognised that they were servants of darker powers. She works tirelessly for the Resistance, never revealing that she knows more… Read more »
Suddenly it all makes sense. I always suspected that “The Fallen Madonna” caused sanity damage!
Ha! They really weren’t joking when they said it was like the Big Boobies followed you around the room.
Lt. Michael Mulally
An officer of the recently formed Long Range Desert Patrol currently attached to a special research unit investigating reports of Nazi scientists exploring Egyptian tombs in the Valley of the Kings. His background as a Doctoral candidate at Oxford in the field of Archaeology before the War, combined with his desert commando training, made him an ideal choice for this assignment.
Inspector Richard Harrington, Scotland Yard Harrington has walked the streets of foggy London man and boy as a constable before his promotion in 1934. In all those years it would have been impossible not to have heard and seen the darker secrets of the streets, the hidden dangers just out the corner of the eye, but it was that one investigation, the murder of the Romanian national. Harrington never did know when to leave it alone, and the official investigation left him with too many questions. However, he wished now that he just kept his big nose out. Bringing that… Read more »
Marilyn Baxter
Marilyn was a book-worm, stuck in the back of a library cataloging donations in Chicago. While sorting through a generous estate donation, she found a journal belonging to the recently deceased Sir M. Hatterton which chronicled an unpublished discovery located off the coast of France. Dreaming of leading the life of a dime-store novel heroine, she packed her hat and her mother’s revolver in search of clues to a forgotten mystery.
Ok, I’m not much good at this so here goes. James Druggan, before the war he lived to excess on drugs and alcohol. Became completly addicted to all the substances of the day. From England, and from a well to do family he also has a good education ans excelled in languages and art. He been the oldest son inherites a considerable amount of land and property from his parents. At the begining of the war he was 22 and had managed to sell all that he had owned to feed his habbit and was now living on the streets… Read more »
Sean McRoth
A Higlander, his grandmother was killed in mysterious circumstances, he started investigating and hunting evil where he could. And was caught by the law that did not understand, and drafted into the army.
He was then spotted by a investigative group in the Brittish Armed Forces, and recruited as a hunter/body guard for the Investigators of the strange and paranormal, 6’2″ Redhaired, Higlander with a short temper (prone to rage), hagis eating muscle bound, takes hunting evil very seriously, but everything else is a a joke to be told.
This won’t count but I couldn’t pass up thinking of a character:- William “Badger” Harker William grew up in the rural havens of England, having a mostly uneventful childhood. When he entered his teenage years however he turned to God and religion to guide him and soon he was on the path to priesthood. Throughout the late 1920’s and 30’s he learned much and thought his faith was secure. One day though as he was studying in the chapel library he saw a door out of the corner of his eye that was never there before. Curiosity taking the better… Read more »
Urie Tatarov Urie is a Russian secret service member. he is a lone wolf who is haunted by his child hood. at the age of 7 he lost his father and sister when his fathers fishing boat was dragged into the murky deeps by a large tentacled beast. Urie awoke in a snow bank in Moscow having no rec-election of his real name or where or even when he came from, he wondered freezing in a blizzard until he was rescued and taken in by a sympathetic family who named him Urie. with nothing but the memory the boat he… Read more »
Well it was a good informative episode guy, thanks. 🙂 I am not really into the whole Chthulu RPG, but I can see how this would be great for those that are. Lots of juicy information there and I liked the fact you can play in lots of different theatres with the additional book. Checked out their Kicks Starter and was pleasantly surprised to find that you can purchase a level to appear in the game as a villain or a hero (and it was quite reasonably priced for this privilege tbh). Anyway, just for giggles I will try and… Read more »
Karl-Heinz Fechtmann, an architect ordered to demolish an old Jewish settlement, in order to build some pompous Nazi building in it’s place. Within the ruins he discovers old tomes and by studying them he becomes a scholar and conjurer of the eldritch powers.
Dr. Rodrick Wellington Percival Elminster Carington Mycroft Luddington VII.
An English scientist from a long line of aristocrats and nobility. He’s currently found himself (forcibly) employed by the Nazi’s in their ‘Occult Technologies’ division. But he’s not the helpless brainiac they believe him to be. He’s also an agent of MI5 reporting in on their advancements and causing a little bit of chaos where he can…
He’s basically a posh Egon Spengler who was ‘captured’ by the Nazi’s and forced into creating weapons that are not entirely of this world…
Giles Haversham – Owner of a successful Import/Export business that dons his trilby and overcoat, smokes a pack a day from his silver cigarette case which he keeps next to his trusty pistol. Currently smuggling supplies for the allies among his regular cargo shipments to the European mainland and North Africa.
Bertrum Goddard. Victorian investigator who after being mauled by a deep one and making a pact with the Migo has woken up in 1939 and wants to go home
My character concept: Name: Alexi Frolov Bio: He was a student at the start of the Revolution,during the 1920’s Alexi was a member of the Red Army fighting in the Russian Civil War. After the war he started to work in the factories because that is what the state ordered, but the first chance he got he rejoined the Red Army, where he saw action against the Japanese in Mongolia in 1932. It was not until ’36 that he was contacted by Stalin to be part of “A project of vital importance to the state”, and that is where he… Read more »
Mary Smith An Australian girl, mary lived in the suburbs of Melbourne. She lived with her family and two brothers, her father taught her to shoot a rifle at a young age. she went hunting with her dad many times, while her brothers played sport.her father said she was the best shot in all of Australia. At 16 she shoot a animal that she didnt reconigse it was a large thing with many things protruding from it. This creature started her curiosity with strange things, the local library gave her a name cthulu and a country France. Mary left for… Read more »
Slipping each other sausages, goodness me I think those boiz are all back stagers, not that there’s anything wrong with that xD
I think all three of us are Back Stagers (can’t speak for Chris, I don’t know if he subscribes). Backstaging is the best thing about Beasts of War. You get all the great stuff, plus access to a whole bunch more, plus you feel like you are actually contributing to the material on the site.
Oh wait, you were talking about something else…
Henri Wagner german deserter. Abandoned his post while guarding a small research facility when a being/entity escaped and began dismembering his fellow soldiers and the scientists they were guarding. After witnessing the aftermath of these atrocities he absconded with some mythos-grade weaponry and fled to a nearby village and hid there for a few months, hsunted by the growing feeling that he was being watched. Slowly villagers began to turn up killed in the same fashion as the victims in the research station and Henri again moved on. In the next location he settled in, he stumbled upon and eventually… Read more »
Let’s try this one: Hans-Jürgen Huber Member of the German Widerstand (Resistance) Hans-Jürgen was politically active during his youth. When different forces clashed in the streets of Berlin in the 1920s, he was in the middle of it. Among his friends his punch was and is still called “Hammerfaust”. When the Nazis took over, he decided to take actions and work against them and so joined some of the different organisations which were active. One of his hobbies besides reading political books and papers was the world of the occult. Just for fun, because it isn’t real, it is?! When… Read more »
Dr. Baptiste Legardien Baptiste was a young man who came from the campaign to learn how to heal his fellow men and women. While studing, he never hesitated to give all the help he could to the neighbour in his building who couldn’t afford to go to the hospital. He himself only lived from meager ressources. When the nazis invaded Paris, He did everything in his power to save as many people as he could. He quickly joined the resistance to bring has much help as he could. Unfortunately he was a fragile soul and could not harm anyone, even… Read more »
Dr. baptiste Legardien
A young student in medicine who quickly joined the resistance when the nazis invaded, a surnatural night where victim of the germains treatment tranformed in monsters open Baptiste eyes to what was really going one. Ironically, this cost him his left eye but strenghtened his resolve to save as many souls as possible from the third reich mad plans.
Matsushida Kenji of the Imperial Japanese army. Trained from an early age in the arts of Ninjutsu before being recruited as an officer cadet. He first saw active service in Manchuria where he quickly gained recognition and a ruthless reputation.
He has been promoted to his current rank of Colonel (Taisa) and is now an Military Attache stationed at the Japanese Embassy in Berlin.
He has been sent to Europe to investigate German weapon research facilities by fair means or foul.
Just what is it that the Nazis want to keep so secret even from their allies ?
Doctor Zhao “Jim” Matsu
3rd generation Japanese American. Linguist under the OSS prior to Pearl Harbor.
Assigned to the european front due to make things easier, and due to it being the source of most of the languages he speaks, combined with a hobby interest in photography. Due to various issues certain higher ups tend to have with his heritage, he gets dumped into things that would normally be considered far stranger than would normally be taken seriously.
Darcy sluth Darcy started life in saskachewan canada oldest brother of 4 and tried to help out as much as possible but when the great depression struck he moved to the big smoke of new york to try and support his family. His quick wit and old values along with his ability to read and predict human nature lead him naturally to a privite detective. This gives a modest life and sends money back as often as he can. When the war started he saw a way to help out the family and to prevent his brothers being drafted he… Read more »