Modiphius Release Cohors Cthulhu: Tactics Miniatures

Modiphius Entertainment has announced a wave of 26 miniature and terrain releases for Cohors Cthulhu: Tactics, its solo and co-operative wargame set on the Germanic frontier of Imperial Rome. The new range adds Roman and Germanic troops and heroes, as well as Mythos creatures including the Bloodborn Queen, a Shoggoth, Night Gaunts and the Avatar of Mormo.

Roman soldiers, Mythos horrors

Tactics shares its setting with Modiphius’s Cohors Cthulhu tabletop RPG, which brings Lovecraftian horror to the early Roman Empire. On the Germanic frontier, a Roman patrol can disappear into the mist and find itself up against something its centurion has no name for. That’s the premise of the game’s free Prologue, which puts players in command of a centurion and his cohort when Mythos creatures ambush them.

In the full campaign, you create your own protagonist and follow their rise from sentry to warband leader. You can recruit from both Roman and Germanic forces as you take on the Cult of Mormo and the forces of Herjan, uncover forbidden knowledge and try to stop the Great Ritual. The rulebook contains more than 15 story and side missions across three acts. Early fights are skirmishes, with larger battles opening up as your force grows. The miniatures are 28mm resin, and the rules also support using figures you already own.

The new wave follows the game’s Kickstarter and the earlier release of the Prologue, core rulebook and an initial batch of miniatures. The core rulebook costs £30 / $45 / €40, while the Prologue Starter Set of miniatures costs £45 / $60 / €55. The Prologue rules are available as a free PDF. The new wave of miniatures is due to start shipping in early December.

Browse the Cohors Cthulhu: Tactics range and download the free Prologue at Modiphius

Some of the new miniatures include:

Herjan’s Horde

Herjan, a seemingly immortal terror, has seized power among the more violent Germanic tribes and committed his followers to a path of carnage and pacts with the Outer Gods. Having forged an alliance with the Cult of Mormo and agreeing to facilitate their unholy rites, this group is one of the most imminent threats to both Rome and Germania’s tribes.

This Cohors Cthulhu: Tactics Miniatures set includes:

• 1x Herjan on foot

• 3x Walkyr (Choosers of the Slain)

• 3x Einherjer Mythos-Marked Champions

• 10x Germanic Servitors of Mormo

• 17x 30mm Plastic Bases

This Cohors Cthulhu: Tactics Miniatures set contains seventeen 28mm scale high-quality multi-part resin miniatures with 30mm plastic bases.

Avatar of Dagon

Spawn of Cthulhu and master of the Deep Ones alongside Mother Hydra, Father Dagon—also called Master of the Lightless—may be considered a “lesser” power compared to the Outer Gods, but the Avatar of Dagon is still not summoned lightly. Rising from the waters, the Avatar takes the form of a vast, scaled monster—a heinous amalgamation of all things that dwell in the deepest and darkest of waters. Soulless eyes burn with rage, set in a visage dominated by rows of jagged teeth. Its powerful limbs tear the land asunder as it vents its fury on the world.

This Cohors Cthulhu: Tactics Miniatures set includes:

• 1x Avatar of Dagon

• 1x 60mm Acrylic Base

This Cohors Cthulhu: Tactics Miniatures set contains one 28mm scale high-quality multi-part resin miniature with 60mm acrylic base.

Deep One Scouts

Most people of the surface world are oblivious to this species of advanced beings that dwells below the waves. Deep Ones are amphibious, frog-like beings who dwell in the oceans and seas, sometimes emerging to conduct raids on human coastal towns or to sink vessels intruding in their territories. Armed with blow pipes and worm grenades, scouts are the most bold of their kind, serving as advance eyes and ears of any raiding party. They move swiftly when needed to intercept small bands of foes, seeking to neutralize them before reinforcements are called.

This Cohors Cthulhu: Tactics Miniatures set includes:

• 3x Deep One Scouts

• 3x 30mm Plastic Bases

This Cohors Cthulhu: Tactics Miniatures set contains three 28mm scale high-quality multi-part resin miniatures with 30mm plastic bases.

Heroes of the Hidden Wars: Kaseo, Laodocus and Dione

This hero set includes a trio of Atlantean descendants whose fates have brought them to the streets of Laurium: the youth Kaeso, a wily urchin who has become well-known to the town’s heroes, and who learns of her ancestry after finding a potent helmet with inexplicable powers; Laodocus, originally from Greece and become a trusted agent of the Fingers of Dawn, armed by them with Atlantean weapons and armor; and his companion Dione, also of Greek heritage and sent to lead Laodocus while in service to the immortal Iovita.

This Cohors Cthulhu: Tactics Miniatures set includes:

• 1x Kaeso

• 1x Laodocus

• 1x Dione

• 3x 30mm Plastic Bases

This Cohors Cthulhu: Tactics Miniatures set contains three 28mm scale high-quality multi-part resin miniatures with 30mm plastic bases.

Heroes of the Hidden Wars: Octavia, Tadhg, Nashiram’s and Nashiram’s Beast

This set includes a trio of some of the more unlikely heroes of Laurium: Octavia, the magistrate’s wife who is not only a leader of the town but secretly one of its most potent mystics; Tadhg, a Celtic druid of Hibernia whose mystic instincts drew them to the town to investigate troubling energies radiating from of a ring of standing stones; and Nashiram, a gladiatorial bestiarius from Syria who is bonded to a strange and formidable lion-like beast that gladly fights to defend her.

This Cohors Cthulhu: Tactics Miniatures set includes:

• 1x Octavia

• 1x Tadhg

• 1x Nashiram

• 1x Nashiram’s Beast

• 1x 40mm Plastic Base

• 3x 30mm Plastic Bases

This Cohors Cthulhu: Tactics Miniatures set contains four 28mm scale high-quality multi-part resin miniatures with plastic bases.

Terrain - Cult of Mormo Sacrificial Stone

Sites of worship and summoning for Mormo are often sanctified in her name by lengthy rituals and the erection of carved stones. Cultists and priests of Mormo will inscribe disturbing glyphs upon these stones, ones that carry meaning within the cult, but are otherwise unreadable. They are often festooned with skeletal remains and stained by the blood of offerings made at the hearth with its burning flame.

This Cohors Cthulhu: Tactics Terrain set includes:

• 1x Cult of Mormo Sacrificial Stone

This Cohors Cthulhu: Tactics Terrain set contains one 28mm scale high-quality multi-part resin terrain piece.

Avatar of Mormo

The Outer Gods are beings of such potency they threaten entire worlds. At times one may deign to send a fragment of themself to assist cultists battling in the Hidden Wars. Mormo’s Avatar takes the form of something that only has the silhouette of a human form. Her vast bulk remains hidden beneath the earth—what breaches the surface is a mass of chitinous scales and writhing tentacular limbs. This unnameable parody of a human torso is topped with the head of a gorgon, a mane of writhing snakes barely obscuring its scaly features and unhinged maw of monstrous teeth. Her touch is corruption, and her gaze is death.

This Cohors Cthulhu: Tactics Miniatures set includes:

• 1x Avatar of Mormo

• 4x Spawn Tentacles

• 1x 60mm Acrylic Base

• 4x 30mm Plastic Bases

This Cohors Cthulhu: Tactics Miniatures set contains five 28mm scale high-quality multi-part resin miniatures with one 60mm acrylic base and four 30mm plastic bases.