It’s worth counting, but overall it doesn’t feel too complicated. The only thing is to analyze how the sales of individual sets of fractions will go, maybe kickstarter will come in handy here again. As for the rest, production costs are reduced, and the sales level will definitely rise – I know that in Russia, the company that localized and published our game as part of crowdfunding still cannot sell a huge number of core boxes due to factors that I mentioned earlier.

And also, in the form of a small bonus – the problem with customs will disappear in many countries, since buying a game through separate sets, rather than boxing, you can not go beyond the limits on the amount in the same Brazil, for example.

The core boxes themselves will also continue to be used – it will be a variation of the “multi-player starter” from the point of view of wargames, while remaining a fairly independent board game in itself

Yes, but the development of rules should not be something unbelievable – it’s not about turning the Cthulhu Wars into a wargame, including battles on a map with a terrane, measuring roulette and other stuff by the rules, similar, for example, to a warhammer.

In my proposal, the Cthulhu Wars will still have the gameplay of the Cthulhu Wars. only the approach to the distribution of the game will change – it will be possible to sell it in parts, separately in the field and materials, separately in fractions, including base 4.

The wars of Cthulhu in their gameplay are not inferior to any wargame – despite the fact that they do not use roulette and move only in zones, the very essence of positioning and control of key points absolutely corresponds to what is happening in ordinary wargames

And also the integration of the approach of introducing sub-fractions, as with Tcho-Tcho, will greatly expand the variability of pre-game choices and will allow you to sell individual sets “sub-fractions”. In general, this system is close to Malifo, where players choose one global faction, and before the battle they can already choose one of the gangs that make up this large faction.

I want to draw your attention to the fact that you do not take into account the player’s thinking in wargame – he thinks as a collector, miniatures for him are a hobby. He wants to choose his favorite side of the conflict, a maximum of two, and then gradually paint them and develop his army. 

The Cthulhu Wars are gameplay wargame, but from the point of view of everything else – an ordinary board game! There are several aspects:

1) Entry threshold. Very few wargame players are willing to buy the load on the armies that they like, armies that they don’t like. So far, if a person wants to start playing the Cthulhu Wars, he must buy a starting box in any case, which means he will get 4 fractions that do not necessarily correspond to his wishes. Also, $ 200 for starting in wargame is quite expensive for most players – they would be ready to buy 1 faction and the necessary stuff in order to start, and only then gradually buy other additions to their collection.

2) There is no way to develop your collection within the selected fraction. Here the situation is more complicated, because the number of units in each faction is strictly limited. The desire of the players to develop precisely their faction, with which they identify themselves, this desire cannot be simply discarded.

From this point of view, I was very inspired by your renewal of the Tcho-Tcho faction. If the players have a choice before the game about which sub-fraction they will choose for their large fraction, this will provide players with space to expand their collection.

For an example, again I will return to the Secret Order of Dagon. This sub-fraction would differ from the Great Cthulhu fraction only by replacing 3 spellbooks, as well as replacing Star Spawn and Cthulhu with Mother Hydra and Father Dagon and perhaps a change in the number of shoggoths / deep ones.

Thus, the player would buy the Cthulhu fraction at the beginning. And then, when he would have the desire to expand his capabilities and his collection, he would buy a sub-fraction of the Secret Order of Dagon, which would require his own fraction tablets, additional miniatures, but would still be based on the Cthulhu glyph as part of the game balance of the starting positions.

If we gradually develop this direction of creating sub-fractions within fractions, then players will find for themselves a certain direction of growth.