How to win with the Tcho Tcho in Cthulhu Wars | A Gameplay Strategy Video

[@AaronWood]

My favorite part of the video is when the music in the background went "OooOOOOooooOOOOOOoooooooOOOOOOOOOO"

[@dennisduigou5384]

Great job! You are the Joe Pera of Cthulhu Wars.

[@califax512]

Well, if you look at the timing of the Doom Phase, the Ritual is performed early than the Doom Phase special abilities. So you can't summon GOO and do the ritual during the first doom phase

[@blaice9226]

How would you place this faction now after many more plays and with the Tribes update? I recall in another of your videos you highly recommended it (top 3 or 5, I believe?). How does it stand up? It's the one faction I haven't gotten round to getting due to all the "negative press," as it were.

[@GreyWizardInsights]

Hey everyone, thanks, this one shouldn't have the super loud background music!

[@MrNeunauge]

Best Errate for the Tscho Tscho is sacrificing an Akolythe after capturing gives you two power.

[@redbek293]

Hi! What about idea to make a video with unique high priests and advices about them?

[@langweiligesprofil4926]

Dont you have to place the highpriest at your gate?

[@GreyWizardInsights]

+langweiliges profil good catch! Yes I don’t think it made a substantial change (but there would be some changes) but its a good catch, thanks!

[@wh3elson]

DorkSideGaming no, high priest are Acolytes so they do NOT have to be summoned to a gate. They can be recruited anywhere you have a unit.

[@rafaelvince2987]

wh3elson Hierophants, the new High Priest has to go on a controlled gate.

[@MattCrawley_Music]

@@wh3elson I thought the high priests WEREN'T acolytes. That's why they're high priests

[@romainpohler5713]

@@MattCrawley_Music in the game Acolyte and High Priest are from the great familly of the Cultist, and a cultist is recruited anywhere (with one unit of your faction)

[@drumstick9302]

Tcho tcho puffs

[@randomaccessfemale]

At 12:01 You placed the high priest in North America, but there is no gate there, because you sacrificed it. I think you should have placed it in Atlantic Ocean.

[@GreyWizardInsights]

I used the word summon, but actually it's recruit, which you can do anywhere you have a unit. as far as where I recruited it, you might be right, maybe I should have recruited it in the atlantic own. on a different note, wow, I forgot what I looked like with that full beard!

[@Talisman_227]

@@GreyWizardInsights Spell book reads: "immediately place a free high priest at one of your gates" You had no gate there in North America. So I agree with your own correction above, you should have placed it in the North Atlantic where you had a gate.

[@cteague3]

For me, I really enjoy your thoughts and discussions about all things Cthulhu Wars. I'm apt to lean toward waiting till you have the mini's for the stuff you are going to talk about, but it isn't a deal breaker. Do you have Azathoth and/or any of the other maps? I'd like to hear about any of that stuff, and frankly any and all of the horrors/monsters/independents/etc.

[@GreyWizardInsights]

Thank you! I have Azathoth, the Caelano map, the Great Old One Pack 4, the Cosmic Terror Pack, the Ramsey Campbell Horrors 1, Ramsey Campbell Horrors 2, plus a few more I think.

[@mauuroo10000]

How to win with the Tcho-Tcho: do nothing. You're welcome.

[@lordzon]

Not with the errata. They have to work a bit to win now.. and end up very vulnerable by the end of the game.

[@mauuroo10000]

@@lordzon even with the errata the faction is still broken. A redesign would be good otherwise it will accumulate dust on the shelf. Anyway a group of people in Bgg redesigned the Tcho-Tcho and I really like it more than the original with errata.

[@GreyWizardInsights]

When you say the errata, do you mean with the extra two tribes, or just the spellbook updates?

[@afrofrycook]

Just an fyi, there have been some balance changes to the Tcho-Tchos. www.kickstarter.com/projects/1816687860/cthulhu-wars-onslaught-3/posts/1958345

[@GreyWizardInsights]

I missed that post! Those are crazy changes... I'm a little surprised that the changes only make the Tcho weaker and nothing to help them be more aggressive. Its like "stop turtling so much" but they don't address the root cause of the turtling which is that the Tcho aren't good at being aggressive (comparatively ). Tablets of the Gods is weaker, but not by much, and Hierophants is weaker. The oddest thing to me is that after that initial surprise win every Tcho seems to get against people who haven't faced them before, in our games the Tcho haven't been winning, just scoring a solid second or third place

[@afrofrycook]

I think in order to push them to be more aggressive, it would have required a change on the actual faction board (ability plus requirements), which I think they were loathe to due for cost reasons.

[@cteague3]

Perhaps make an addendum video discussing the Tcho balance changes, too.

[@richards6122]

I would also like to see a short video covering the implications of the balance changes

[@afrofrycook]

As an aside, I would only do videos where you had the actual models of because otherwise, it would be jarring to watch since I've gotten used to them being there. You may want to check on boardgamegeek if someone in your area wouldn't mind letting you borrow theirs.

[@kevinboudreaux7860]

im not a huge fan of this faction just because winning is basically reliant on getting good rng with the elder signs. if you get the 2s and 3s, you usually win.

[@wierdbob]

This one the music was on the perfect level. Place holders are fine. If you want , pop some screen shots up every now and then of what the models should look like . I'd like the factions more than independent units but both would make good videos.

[@GreyWizardInsights]

Ok, thanks for the input, I'll start planning on Sleepers next then. :)

[@jebeddo08]

What people would in fact like to know is how to defeat TT 😂 in my opinion the only way to defeat TT, is to attack them on turn 1. CC needs to call a monster and go pick there cultists. Its the only way, on turn 2 it will be too late if you dont do anything on turn 1

[@GreyWizardInsights]

We find that if you consistently "pick on" TT, they almost never win, which might be the point. I don't know if turn 1 is required, but definitely you have to keep them under control. I think thats the point though, the monsters have to squash the "primitive humans" before they secure the win.

[@jebeddo08]

DorkSideGaming i am surprised that no one ever mentioned the reason why i think TT is OP. Its in fact really simple. There is nothing wrong with turtling and not interacting with others (sleeper can be some way similiar and its not OP). The only reason for me that this faction is broken is because of there GOO... Cost... ZERO! Ok, it starts really weak, but still, while all the other factions need to figure out the right timing to call their GOO... TT doesnt care, because its almost free. While others loose most of the times a full turn due to there GOO summoning, TT looses nothing and in 3 or 4 turns can have the strongests GOO in the game. This is the real reason why they are broken, and it could be easely fixed with a cost of summoning there GOO.

[@GreyWizardInsights]

Nuno V not sure why that matters, in nearly every one of our games the game ends before their goo gets above 9 combat dice, and it costs a high priest which is 3 power right?

[@jebeddo08]

DorkSideGaming correct, its almost free. Most of the GOO cost 10 or have requirements that all together cost that. The problem is not its pwer, but more that TT gets 1 free spellbook and turn. With my group (before we decided to ban TT lol) around second and third turn TT player have most of there units out, while others are trying to catch up. But maybe its like how Sandy says; it all have to do with the people you play with and there strategies/ideas. BTW... I rly love the clans idea for TT on demon sultan ks :)

[@jackmalin2528]

Hate this faction. This is a game where you should play as GOO not humans. I often refuse to play with them cause they are very anticlimatic.