This was the period when Winston Churchill ordered the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to set Europe ablaze, and brave men and women of the SOE parachuted into occupied territories, engaged in espionage and sabotage and helped local partisan units to establish an effective resistance to Fascist rule. Overview World War Cthulhu includes enough material to allow you to play in most of World War Two's theatres, but it encourages (and facilitates) games set in Europe during "the darkest hour" (that is, between the fall of France in June 1940 and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941) when British and Commonwealth forces stood almost alone against the forces of Hitler and Mussolini. The core Call of Cthulhu rulebook is needed to run a World War Cthulhu game. In writing this review, I assume that the reader has some familiarity with Call of Cthulhu and the rules of that system. I will start with World War Cthulhu, partially because it appears to suit my personal gaming preference a little better, but mostly because the postman is yet to deliver Achtung Cthulhu to my anxiously waiting hands. Over the next few weeks' I plan to review both. Achtung Cthulhu provides a pulpy, Indiana Jones gaming experience, while World War Cthulhu - The Darkest Hour is intended to provide for a darker style of game. In the past 12 months two separate supplements have been released for Call of Cthulhu and intended to expand the world of Lovecraft into the Second World War.
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