Roman legionaries versus Lovecraftian horrors is a match-up you did not know you needed. Cohors Cthulhu: Tactics, a new solo and cooperative miniatures wargame from UK studio Modiphius, drops a handful of ambush survivors into a Mythos-haunted Germanic forest and asks whether they will hold the line or run for the tree line. It reaches US retail on 28 August 2026, priced at $45.
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Start organising for freeTactics is the miniatures-and-maps arm of the wider Cohors Cthulhu setting, which also runs a 2d20 roleplaying line. You create a protagonist, raise a cohort of comrades and fight through a prologue and three acts of branching missions against the Cult of Mormo and the barbarian Herjan, unlocking new allies and story threads as you go. It leans as heavily on RPG storytelling as on wargame tactics, so it should suit groups who want a campaign with stakes rather than a one-off skirmish. The 28mm miniatures arrive as resin models or downloadable STL files for home 3D printing, and they are scaled to match historical ranges like Victrix, Warlord, Wargames Foundry and Sally 4th, so anyone with a box of Romans already has reinforcements.
Playing solo or cooperatively, it is an easy sell for a quiet evening on your own or a campaign with a couple of friends who prefer fighting the game rather than each other. If a monthly Rome-versus-the-unspeakable campaign sounds like your kind of thing, round up a regular group and see it through.
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