How to win with The Yellow Sign | Cthulhu Wars Strategies

Continuing on in my series of Cthulhu Wars Strategies, I'm covering my favorite faction The Yellow Sign. I talk about some scenarios and mistakes people can make, then even talk a bit about times where it can make sense to do those things that are usually mistakes. The Yellow Sign is one of the trickiest factions, prepare to desecrate the land and bring ruin to your enemies!
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[@SomeOne-jz7cn]

Won the game thanks to your advice!!

[@xXN0cturnXx]

very nice video thx! also your eyes remind me of casey affleck haha. x)

[@urza4282]

Good video, I'd have to say you're going to want a turn 2 or 3 Hastur and Third Eye to start collecting Elder Signs early. By the time he hits the board, you can have four spellbooks on the board, and have a desecration engine going. Great video though!

[@GreyWizardInsights]

+urza4282 the Third Eye strategy is totally legit! Do you use high priests? And if so, where do you use them in your strategy?

[@urza4282]

DorkSideCookies I own them, but haven't got to play with them yet! Also just got Sleeper and Windwalker sent to my house, so once I get home tomorrow I'll get to check them out too. I don't get to play as often as I'd like, but trying to set up CW game days in conjunction with a local game store to bring in new players.

[@davidandersson7642]

urza4282 In our games Yellow Sign typically can't get a turn 2 Hastur anymore. To get Hastur you need 10 power and The King in Yellow at a gate. The only way to set that up on the first turn is to either build a gate where you awaken the KIY or (with the High Priest expansion) recruit a High Priest, then pop them in turn 2 and walk the KIY to your gate and awaken Hastur. Either way Yellow Sign will run out of power on turn 1 after 2 or 3 actions. This means his cultists are going to be totally undefended and vulnerable to capture. If a single cultist is captured then Yellow Sign enters turn 2 with too little power to awaken Hastur and there's nothing Yellow can do about it. If Yellow can get a turn 2 Hastur it's because everyone else let him.

[@reloadpsi]

I affectionately refer to this faction as the pacifist run. I've appreciated playstyles like these ever since I non-lethalled all of MGS2 way back when.

[@timeforvintagepancakes9751]

14:26 hehe, "doo doo"

[@m.l.8235]

I love your videos - as a question, can Hastur turn up with He who should not be named, then as a free action if he has unit superiority "eat" a cultist, and then take his secon turn to summon byakhee?

[@GreyWizardInsights]

I'm not sure what you mean by unit superiority, but, lets talk about He Who is Not to be Named. It says "immediately after, you may take a second, different, Action". The word immediate is your key, Arthur Petersen says that unlimited actions may not be taken in between actions, but may of course be taken before or after.

[@thePatryn]

I would love to know how you address the issue of moving KiY too far before being able to awake Hastur, what round would you awake him? and what would you do in a continous bad luck at desecration attempts, would you keep trying or continue with screaming dead toward glyphs areas? feel this faction rely so much on early luck, being little off balance, opposite to Ghroth or Thousand forms which are merely advantages instead of ways yo go in my opinion.

[@GreyWizardInsights]

Thousand Forms is purely an advantage, it "does something" regardless of what you roll, sometimes more and sometimes less. Before I comment on the yellow Sign, I'm a little curious by what you mean that Ghroth is an advantage? I've used Ghroth over 6 times with max fungi, and never had it go off. In your opinion, should I continue to try to get it to happen even though I risk losing the game by moving my fungi to separate areas with a primary intention of leveraging Ghroth?

[@thePatryn]

Of course not! I mean Ghroth is a thing that you COULD do, it may pay off or dont but its hardly a thing you must do in order to win. Early desecration in the other hand is a must so Yellow doesnt get too far back, have bad luck in an early game desecrating and most of the times Yellow Sign will get rekt, my opinion of course!

[@GreyWizardInsights]

Oh! Sure, I don't know anyone who bases a win strategy around Ghroth, where as YS "must" desecrate or they can't win "at all". It definitely is a weakness of the YS faction design IMO that they "must" do this gimmick with no alternatives. In our games, YS wins slightly more than other factions, when they don't, they were blocked from winning by people being aggressive towards them (which lets someone else win). Thousand Forms is pretty important or your Crawling Chaos faction won't have enough power IMO. I awaken KiY first round 100% If someone has a gate near me, I'll consider stealing their gate since I can capture their cultist even if they have a monster and no one else has a GOO yet. Desecrate is how I summon monsters, if I get a desecrate token, thats a bonus, its 100% successful at summoning monsters. After I get a successful desecration token, getting Zingaya and not only removing control of gates but increasing my undead at the same time is a viable alternative to capturing cultists. Most games where King in Yellow does well, I offer deals to be left alone, we rarely have people betray deals because we punish people for months by denying them deals (since they're obviously untrustworthy), this works well when you play with the same people repeatedly, not so well if its your first or last game with folks. Still, deals don't hold up when people are losing, they just give an initial pause, usually long enough to get Hastur. Once I have Hastur out, we tend to play Hastur as a more cold war kind of mechanic, not bringing him in unless people dare to interfere with my march of the undead. I play KiY as a race, can I get more eldritch signs faster than someone else can get doom? If so, I win, if not, they win.

[@thePatryn]

@@GreyWizardInsights thanks for your response! Guess its important to race for Hastur in order to win elder signs fast enough and have him as deterrent, talking about rounds, would you awake Hastur at 3 and make ritual at the end of that very round?

[@GreyWizardInsights]

Thats a really tough call, I'd say most games I end up summoning Hastur on round 3. Rituals on the other hand, totally depends on whether I have to shore up my defenses or if I'm being ignored enough to do a ritual. I'll have to pay more attention to when I do a ritual, I think most games if I'm being ignored (usually because two other players are slugging it out) then I ritual. Post back after you've played a game, let us know if you pull it off!

[@magajelly]

Im just wondering, why stereo mic setup? Not being facetious just curious.

[@GreyWizardInsights]

Sure, so originally, we were doing a lot of podcast type videos, so I set everything up for doing podcasts... Then I wanted to reuse the mics for the game videos and so I tried doing a lavalier mic, but because I lean over and look down so much, the lavalier mic was always picking up clothing sounds, so I threw those videos away and decided I didn't care about the studio mics being in the shot. I tried one, but when I turned my head it wouldn't pick me up, so I figured I had 2 for 2-person podcasts I should just use both. And 2 mics like this sound fine... but then we immediately stopped doing podcast videos. ;) So then I hung out with a friend who does a lot of radio work, and he told me about how to fold the lavalier mic, but said I needed the shotgun mic with it for it to sound its best, so I brought my 1 shotgun mic back, and it sounded great, but the lavalier mic didn't sound that great. My next video after this I believe has a lavalier mic PLUS shotgun mic, but I only use the shotgun mic in the rendered video So then my next couple videos I kept learning and finally the lavalier mic sounded great but still not necessary, just better. So then tonight I had a game designer doing one of these videos with me, teaching people better ways to play his game (Amasser Dragons), but I only have 1 cardiod lavalier (which I normally use) and 1 omni-directional, and I thought it would sound weird to have us each using different kinds of lavalier, so I figured no lavalier mics at all, and I used 3 shotgun mics, one for each of us and 1 wide. If one of us looks down and our positional mics don't grab us, the wide one will, but when we talk forward, the directional mics sound the best. So there you go, thats where we're at as of our newest video (how to win with Evil Dragons in Amasser Dragons) which should be live Tuesday.

[@nefelibatabass]

So i can desacrete in ALL areas but only glyph areas i get spellbook...but, if i have King in yellow and hastur and all six spellbooks in play and desecrate an area without glyph i get one elder sign?

[@GreyWizardInsights]

I'll clarify, because I don't want to give bad information. You get one spellbook when you put a desecration token with the circular glyph You get one spellbook when you put a desecration token with the chevron glyph You get one spellbook when you put a desecration token with the vertical slashes glyph Separate from the above. One of the spellbooks is called The Third Eye. Once you have The Third Eye out, when you have Hastur and you put a desecrate token in ANY region that is legally allowed to get a desecration token, then you get an elder sign. Personally, I think you could have The Third Eye as early as the third spellbook and start really rocking your elder sign acquisition.

[@adamstarks9428]

Finally got around to finishing this video. If I heard right, you mentioned the 2nd Action of He Who Must Not Be Named being free? It is not, you still have to actually pay for it.

[@GreyWizardInsights]

+Adam Starks i don't think I said it was free, but if I did, you're right! I would have meant "bonus" as in extra action if I said so, thanks!

[@matheusmello2577]

Well.. i like to play, mid-game, dessecrating and lefting cultist alone... if it's not captured, i gain 1 power on gather power... if they capture, i gos 1 power intantly, meaning, more dessecration...

[@GreyWizardInsights]

Intentionally hoping your cultists get captured, very Yellow Sign. :)

[@davidandersson7642]

Typically I only see Yellow use Zingaya if enemies are being really agressive. If Yellow is running away with the desecrations and the other players gang up on the King in Yellow it's totally likely that some Undead will get pained into enemy territories and get left behind as the King runs away. Those undead orphaned in enemy territories are now mine fields. One wrong move and they might convert your cultist on your gate.

[@GreyWizardInsights]

+David Andersson thats a great insight! Something i'm normally adverse to do is to leave my units stranded in enemy territory but several of the factions do well with it, thanks!

[@lordzon]

I like to take Zingaya as my first book.. And Zap a blue gate near me. Or Black Goat. It shocks people the first time they get hit by Zingaya.. its awesome.