Cthulhu Wars FAQ
717 questions players ask · Updated Nov 11, 2026 · Full rulebook
General
- How much Doom does it cost to avoid Bokrug's curse?
- Do Red Signed Dark Young add to Shub-Niggurath's Combat?
- Do High Priests and Brain Cylinders add to Shub-Niggurath's Combat?
- How do you awaken Shub-Niggurath, and must the two Cultists sacrificed be in the same Area?
- Do Wizards and Serpent Men need to be in play to summon Tsathoggua?
- Does Ice Age raise the cost of Thousand Forms for Nyarlathotep?
- Does Lethargy cost more Power during Ice Age?
- Does Windwalker's Ice Age token stop a faction from controlling or abandoning Gates?
- How much does Windwalker's Ice Age token add when moving or attacking into its Area?
- Does Passion give 1 Power for each Cultist lost, or 1 Power per effect?
- Does Passion pay 3 Power when Yellow Sign sacrifices a High Priest?
- What happens if all of a faction's units are eliminated?
- What happens to web markers if Atlach-Nacha is killed?
- What is Windwalker's Howl spellbook?
- Does a neutral Great Old One like the Bhole count as an enemy GOO for Mother Hydra's or Windwalker's Hibernate conditions?
- Does a Zoog affect Yog-Sothoth if they share an Area?
- Do Independent Great Old Ones still give extra Elder Signs when you Ritual?
- Must Opener's The Beyond One take the gate and its controller?
- Can Cursed Slumber place a gate into a battle area through Energy Nexus?
- Does Sleeper's Energy Nexus require the battle to be against Sleeper, and when does it trigger?
- Are the free Great Old Ones from the Cultes des Goules pledge playable without an expansion?
- What happens if the Bhole moves into an Area containing Yog-Sothoth?
- How much Power does the Black Goat Share Areas spellbook requirement return?
- If the Bloated Woman is killed and then bought by another player, do the monsters on her card stay with their owners?
- How do the Sleeper's Death from Below and the Ancients' opponents-summon-for-free spellbooks choose which monster is summoned?
- If a Recriminations spellbook is removed, do its persistent effects (such as The Red Sign, Submerge or Extinction) stay in effect?
- Can the Hound of Tindalos go to the Bubastis Moon, and can Opener of the Way use They Break Through to reach it?
- Do Terrors such as Yothans outrank Monsters for the Capture Monster ability?
- How much power does Nyarlathotep get from Harbinger when he pains or kills a GOO?
- Does making one Formless Spawn Invisible reduce the combat dice of the other Formless Spawn?
- Can the Hound of Tindalos be Submerged without being Eliminated?
- How many dice does Ithaqua roll in combat?
- How does Rhan Tegoth's Eternal ability work?
- How long does a Windwalker Ice Age token stay in play once placed?
- Can the Ice Age marker be moved to another area?
- Does Ice Age make moving units out of its area cost extra Power?
- Does Ice Age raise the cost of Devolve or Necrophagy?
- Can Black Goat earn several spellbooks in one turn?
- Do you take an Elder Sign when Cthulhu is awakened?
- How does Screaming Dead differ from He Who Shall Not Be Named?
- Does Great Cthulhu gain an Elder Sign when an Independent Great Old One is awakened?
- Does the alternate Cthulhu miniature (Buffthulhu) replace Devour with a Combat of 9?
- If the King in Yellow is killed while every area holds a gate, can Yellow Sign bring him back?
- Can an enemy cultist take control of Yog-Sothoth as a gate?
- Do the Opener spellbook's three-areas-with-enemy-gates units need to belong to three different enemies?
- Does Opener's spellbook 'enemy Great Old One in the same area' requirement count independent Great Old Ones?
- Can Beyond One move Yog-Sothoth himself?
- Can another unit's Beyond One bring a gate into Yog-Sothoth's area?
- Can units be placed on, or targeted in, a Sleeper Cursed Slumber gate, and does it count for Opener's spellbook?
- In what order do you upgrade units with Opener's Million Favored Ones spellbook?
- Does losing a unit to Cthulhu's Devour count for Opener's spellbook that requires losing a unit in battle?
- Does Energy Nexus let Sleeper use a rival's Great Old One ability with Tsathoggua?
- When Sleeper copies Yellow Sign's Feast with Energy Nexus, when does the power arrive?
- Can Sleeper use Energy Nexus, Ancient Sorcery and Beyond One together to take a gate from an enemy?
- When Nyarlathotep's Harbinger halves the cost to awaken Tsathoggua, does he pay 4 or 2 Power?
- Does Passion trigger when Ghroth forces Yellow Sign to lose its own Cultists?
- Can Azathoth be played as a playable faction?
- Can the Dreamlands Surface and Underworld monster sets be used on maps other than the Dreamlands?
- What special ability does each Independent Great Old One have?
- What happens if the players cannot agree on Synthesis payments within two minutes?
- Can Cthulhu Wars be played solo?
- What is a Terror unit, and how does it differ from a Monster?
- Can a Terror capture cultists, and can Sleeper's Capture Monster ability capture a Terror?
- Can a Terror capture a cultist protected by Ferox?
- Can a Yithian capture a cultist protected by Ferox?
- Do both Windwalker glyphs count as valid targets for Tcho-Tcho's Idolatry, even if Windwalker is not in play?
- When a Tcho-Tcho spellbook requires removing its starting-area gate, is that gate destroyed?
- How does an independent Great Old One come into play and who controls it?
- Can a faction Great Old One such as Cthulhu be used as an independent Great Old One?
- Does a killed independent Great Old One need its spellbook earned again?
- How many gates does Opener of the Way need for its gate spellbook requirements in a 2- or 3-player game?
- What are the errata limits on Windwalker's Hibernate and his Elder Sign spellbook?
- How do the Dreamlands surface and underworld monsters work?
- Does a Great Old One in an area protect cultists from Ghatanothoa?
- How do Brain Cylinders work?
- If you summon Azathoth, do you get the whole Azathoth faction?
- Are the faction sheet images from early versions of the rules still valid?
- How does Asenath Waite's Unique High Priest ability work?
- How do you get rid of Bokrug once you have him?
- What does Firestorm do against an enemy with zero Power, and does it work against a Hibernating Windwalker?
- Do Abhoth's Filth tokens count toward Black Goat's unit-in-areas spellbook requirements?
- How does Yog-Sothoth interact with Gates for Build Gate, Beyond One and scoring?
- Does the OS1-to-OS4 turn order change affect how the game plays?
- How does the Hound of Tindalos work and what does it cost to get and re-summon?
- What do Wamps do, and who places them?
- Is Tcho-Tcho's Doomsday spellbook an action, and when can it be used?
- Do High Priests' Tablets of the Gods require controlling the Gate in the area?
- Does Tcho-Tcho's Hierophants spellbook give one High Priest or one per faction?
- Can Sleeper's Ancient Sorcery copy Cthulhu's Immortal discount on Tsathoggua's first awakening?
- Does an Elder Thing negate the abilities of independent Great Old Ones like Cthugha, Ghatanothoa and Bokrug?
- Can Black Goat's Ghroth place an Acolyte from another faction's pool?
- Can Daemon Sultan's Traitors target Bubastis when Bubastis has no pooled unit able to control a gate?
- Can Sleeper copy two enemy faction abilities in the same round?
- If a Gate is in a Windwalker glyph area where Windwalker did not start, does he begin the game with that spellbook?
- When Nodens copies a multi-unit spellbook such as Blood Sacrifice, which unit does it count as?
- Do Insects from Shaggai cultists benefit from the controller's Frenzy spellbook?
- Can Black Goat sacrifice cultists under an opponent's Insects from Shaggai control to pay for an awakening?
- How much Power does Black Goat's Share Areas with all enemies objective give at higher player counts?
- What is Black Goat's current Fertility Cult ability?
- Do the Ancients need Independent Great Old Ones to be played?
- How do you reawaken Cthulhu on the Shaggai map after his starting area is destroyed?
- Can players trade Power, Doom or Elder Signs during negotiation?
- Can an overdue Library tome be returned, or does it stop being overdue?
- Is the OS4 edition of an expansion compatible with an older (OS2 or OS3) base game?
- Can Opener of the Way's Million Favored Ones turn enemy Acolytes into Mutants?
- When Black Goat casts Ghroth and players cannot agree on losses, who chooses which cultists are removed?
- Can Sleeper use its 3-power spellbook action when an enemy has 0 power?
- Can the after-battle upgrade spellbook turn a Spawn of Yog-Sothoth into Yog-Sothoth himself?
- Does Tsathoggua's Harbinger use his current or original cost when copying Cthulhu's Eternal ability?
- After Eihort is awakened, do his Brood tokens swap for Acolytes if an Elder Thing shares the area, and do they stay with the faction if an Elder Thing moves in?
- When does Windwalker's Hibernate power gain happen, and is there a cap?
- Does the unit gained from a failed Desecration cost Power?
- What changed between the first and second printings of Opener of the Way?
- When Brain Cylinders replace cultists on the board, do the replaced cultists return to your pool?
- Which abilities are mandatory rather than optional?
- When Yig's spellbook requirement is met, is the controlling unit removed along with the gate?
- Must Dimensional Shambler units be placed from the faction card right after an action?
- Do neutral cats in Something About Cats count as cat varieties for Ailurophobia?
- Are Web tokens, desecration markers and filth tokens removed when their Great Old One leaves play?
- Is Yog-Sothoth an uncontrolled gate that gives every faction Power?
- Can Dire Azathoth be played without the Azathoth expansion?
- What are the Faction tokens for?
- Does Windwalker's Ice Age marker count as a unit for sharing areas, Moving or Recruiting?
- Does a Brown Jenkin 'at your controlled gate' summon apply to any one of your gates?
- Does Sleeper's Demand Sacrifice need Tsathoggua to be in the battle?
- Can a killed unique High Priest be brought back as itself?
- Does Crawling Chaos's Flight cost extra power when a unit moves two areas?
- Once Cthulhu has been awakened, what does it cost to awaken him again?
- Does Ancient Sorcery on Cthulhu make Tsathoggua's first summoning cost 4?
- Can a player who takes Windwalker's spellbook later receive Elder Signs for players who reach six spellbooks afterwards?
- Can Shub-Niggurath's Avatar swap a Great Old One?
- Can King in Yellow desecrate an area that already has a Desecration token?
- Does a Devolved cultist still control a gate?
- Can Opener's Million Favored Ones promote Acolytes after a battle with no Pains or Kills?
- Does Green Decay give an Elder Sign for a captured Monster that is sacrificed?
- Does a Moonbeast on a Sleeper spellbook stop that spellbook's use, and do placed Serpent Men keep working?
- Which errata apply to the Onslaught 2 base game?
- Are Dark Young with the Red Sign spellbook counted as Cultists?
- Does Buffthulhu differ from regular Cthulhu?
- On the Shaggai map, does controlling a Gate count as an area restriction for Cosmic Power summons?
- What is Bokrug's card ability after the errata?
- What happens to an Independent Great Old One's remaining tokens when it dies?
- Where does an enemy cultist go when Hastur turns it into an undead?
- Can Dimensional Shamblers move from one area to another on the map?
- Are North and South America connected on the 3 player map?
- Can Mummified Cultists be moved by Arctic Wind or mount a Shantak?
- Can an Old One stop Opener's Beyond One from entering an area?
- Where must the free unit from They Break Through be placed when Opener buys an Independent Monster?
- What do the Notes entries on faction cards mean, such as Spellbook: Dreams?
- Can a Moon Beast placed on the Cursed Slumber spellbook be removed from the faction sheet?
- Can the Astral Acolyte be turned into a Brain Cylinder?
- Do the expansions included in Onslaught 2 need the original errata?
- Where are the rules changes (buffs and fixes) to existing factions listed?
- When the Librarian's Agony cannot be split evenly between factions, who decides the extra?
- Does Y'Golonac's Orifices trigger the Dhole's planetary destruction?
- Who chooses which unit a Zingaya effect replaces?
- How much power must you have to attempt to awaken Azathoth?
- Is Windwalker's Cannibalism spellbook mandatory once unlocked?
- Can the Custodian on the Library map move Byatis when the Agony effect moves units?
- Where do the Tomes go when an Elder Sign is discarded to flip them back up on the Library map?
- When a Tcho-Tcho removes a controlled gate, is the cultist on it removed too?
- Does Dragon Descending's double Doom also give an extra Elder Sign if Yog-Sothoth is awake?
- Do Neutral Great Old Ones count toward Yog-Sothoth's combat strength or Windwalker's Hibernation power boost?
Setup
- How many Independent Great Old Ones should be in one game?
- How many neutral monsters or Indie GOOs should a game include?
- How many players can Cthulhu Wars support?
- What do you need to play a six-player game?
- Do expansion factions have to be added in a fixed order to reach five players?
- How do the Dreamlands maps work?
- How many gates can an eight-player game need?
- Can the Yuggoth, Dreamlands or Primeval Earth maps be combined with the base map or each other?
- How many players do the expansion maps support?
- Which sides of the two maps should a four-player game use?
- How do you set up a seven-player game on the six-to-eight-player map?
- Is there a separate Ritual of Annihilation track for each player count?
- Can Opener of the Way swap its one-use spellbooks for Recriminations?
- Does Opener of the Way's setup text wrongly name Yog-Sothoth?
- When Windwalker and Opener of the Way are both in play, who sets up first?
- Does Opener of the Way need fewer gates in a three-player game?
- Where does Windwalker start on the Primeval Earth map?
- How much Power does each player start the game with?
- Can the H. P. Lovecraft bust be used as the turn-order marker?
- Can each player start the game with a random Neutral monster?
- Can Windwalker become first player on turn one by using its at-any-time spellbook to skip Gather Power?
- Does a Moonbeast on the Ancients' Extinction spellbook help the Ancients?
- Where can Tcho-Tcho place their starting gate at setup?
- Are Tcho-Tcho brain cylinder tokens used without the Yuggoth Map?
- Do High Priests start in play, and do Tcho-Tcho start with one?
- If Tcho-Tcho unlock Hierophant without the High Priest expansion, do the other factions get High Priests?
- Does Invasion get a High Priest when the High Priests expansion is in use?
- Can a player who controls Cthulhu as a faction also use Cthulhu as an Independent Great Old One?
- Are North and South America adjacent on the Earth map?
- Can the six-to-eight-player Shaggai map be played as Earth without its map-specific rules?
Game Basics
- Can one player control more than one Independent Great Old One at once?
- What happens to an Independent Great Old One's spellbook if that Great Old One is killed?
- How much does a High Priest cost to summon, and what do you get for cashing one in?
- Does Yog-Sothoth count as a Gate?
- Does Yog-Sothoth count as a controlled Gate for his faction's abilities and for other players' abilities?
- Can you be eliminated from Cthulhu Wars if you have no units or gates left on the map?
- Is the B'hole a Great Old One or a Terror?
- Does a Bhole count as an enemy Great Old One for Mother Hydra's Zygote spellbook condition?
- When can you turn in Elder Signs for Doom?
- Can Zoogs be captured with the Capture Monster spellbook?
- If Cthulhu awakens Nyogtha, does he gain one Elder Sign or two?
- Does Hierophant trigger when you acquire an Independent GOO spellbook?
- Does the Nyogtha spellbook requirement count a Nyogtha unit killed in a battle the other Nyogtha unit was not part of?
- Can Brood tokens take the Move action, or be moved by other players?
- When you awaken Eihort while Cthulhu has Submerged or Cursed Slumber Acolytes, are those Acolytes replaced with Brood?
- When Eihort is killed, do his Brood stay on the gates, and does that make those gates Abandoned?
- Can a game have more than one Hound of Tindalos, such as from several Hound loyalty cards?
- What is the difference between a round and a turn?
- When do you receive a Spellbook earned during a Battle: when the requirement is met, or after the Battle ends?
- Can Black Goat earn several spellbooks at once?
- Do you get an Elder Sign when you earn a spellbook?
- Did the newer Sleeper production change any rules, such as the Demand Sacrifice spellbook?
- How do the two Nyogtha units count for game purposes, as one Great Old One or two?
- What is the order of play, and is the Omega rulebook's turn sequence different from the original?
- Does Yellow Sign's Passion pay Power when an Acolyte is lost to Black Goat's Groth if Yellow Sign chose which unit to lose?
- How much Power does Passion give when several Cultists are eliminated at once?
- What triggers Passion?
- What happens if you earn an Elder Sign when none are left in the pool?
- Can a player decline to take a Spellbook once its requirement is met?
- Do Ancient Sorcery and Energy Nexus work after the 2013 swap, and what does each do?
- When Cthugha dies, does his spellbook still count toward the Gogobeg elder-sign benefit?
- Do Great Old Ones or Terrors count as Monsters for spellbook requirements?
- Is there a limit on how many Cultists a player can have on the map?
- Are High Priests and Brain Cylinders Acolyte Cultists?
- Can you sacrifice a High Priest for Power when you have 0 Power, including outside your own turn?
- Can a High Priest removed by Slumber still be sacrificed for Power?
- Where does a Moonbeast go when removed while its owner has no units on the map?
- Can a Terror capture a Cultist, and can a Monster protect it?
- Can a Terror be captured?
- Can Terrors capture Windwalker cultists protected by Ferox?
- Is Lomar an ocean Area for Great Cthulhu's Y'ha Nthlei spellbook?
- Can another player take away a spellbook you already gained?
- How can a Gate be removed from Cthulhu's home Area?
- How do you awaken Shub-Niggurath and earn her spellbook by removing Cultists?
- Which units does Nalydoatep's Thousand Young ability affect?
- How much Power is Harbinger worth to Nyarlathotep when it kills Cthulhu?
- Can Gates be moved or destroyed in the base game?
- Does Yig destroy one of his own Gates to earn his spellbook?
- Does Passion trigger when a Librarian's agony kills your Cultist after an enemy action?
- Does Ice Age defend against Librarian or Custodian activation?
- If Sleeper copies Great Cthulhu's Immortal with Ancient Sorcery, does its first awakening of Tsathoggua cost more?
- Does Great Cthulhu's Immortal Elder Sign apply when Cthulhu is awakened, and does 'any Great Old One' cover other GOOs?
- Does Gobogeg's spellbook take effect if you do not gloat when you place it?
- If Sleeper's spellbook makes all other players lose 1 Power, does a player already at 0 Power lose anything?
- How many times can Ice Age be placed, and does the token leave the board at the end of each turn?
- Does Ancient Sorcery's copied faction ability cover Tsathoggua when it refers to a Great Old One?
- Can Hastur use He Who Must Not Be Named on a Mummified Cultist?
- Can there be more than one Gate in an Area?
- When Ghroth is rolled, can the owner lose a submerged Cultist instead of a Cultist on the map?
- If an opponent gives you an investigator and you do not play it, do you lose Power in the Gather Power Phase?
- Can players discuss before choosing their die value in Azathoth's Independent Great Old One awakening?
- Can Windwalker place the Ice Age token on the Moon?
- Can Windwalker's Catnapping send the Library Custodian to the Moon?
- Can another player recruit a neutral unit such as the Eidolon or Prophetess that is owned through a Loyalty Card?
- Are Elder Gods treated as Great Old Ones for spells and abilities?
- Must you declare which unlock condition you use when acquiring Mother Hydra's Spellbook?
- Does Black Goat's spellbook requirement of sharing Areas with all enemies count as an official change?
- Does Daemon Sultan's Chaos Gate spellbook require its own Chaos Gate to be abandoned?
- Can Ghroth place an Acolyte that is already on the map, or a captured one?
- Who can control a Gate, and can a Monster or Great Old One claim a free Gate?
- Do you place a Spellbook as an action when its requirement is met?
- Does a Gate on the Moon count toward the 12 Gates for Opener's spellbook requirement?
- Can a unit move between two Areas that share a border on the map?
- Can Windwalker's Howl or another spellbook affect a Filth token?
- Does a Filth token move with Cthulhu when he submerges?
- Where does an Elder Sign go when a spellbook says to discard it?
- Are Ongoing abilities optional, or do they always apply?
- If the highest- or lowest-cost monster for a spellbook is already out, what does the player get?
- Can players trade Doom points or Elder Signs in a deal?
- Can a unit's spellbook ability be used before the faction sheet has unlocked that spellbook?
- Is the Eidolon treated as a Cultist for capture, devour and ritual effects?
- If your faction's units can fly, do the independent monsters and Great Old Ones you control also fly?
- Are Ancients' Cathedrals units, and how can they be removed?
- Do Abhoth's Filth tokens count as Units for spellbook requirements such as Black Goat's Have Units in four Areas?
- Do Desecration tokens ever leave the map, and can Yellow King desecrate oceans?
- Can powers like Abduct target Great Old Ones?
- Is the Floating Tower on Celaeno adjacent to the Area below it?
- Can an Acolyte build a Gate or control a Gate in an Area with enemy units?
- Is an Ice Age token a Unit, and can you recruit a Cultist into an Area holding only that token?
Action Phase
- Can Windwalker's Hibernate more than double his current Power?
- Can you take Thousand Forms, or any other Action, at 0 Power?
- How much Power do I need to attempt to Awaken Azathoth?
- Can the King in Yellow be summoned when every Area has a Gate?
- Are Great Old Ones immune to Dread Curse of Azathoth?
- Can a Dimensional Shambler be placed to stop an enemy capture or battle after the action is declared?
- Can you dissolve a High Priest into Power when an enemy moves a unit into his Area to capture him?
- Can a player at 0 Power return to the Action Phase by sacrificing a High Priest?
- If Victor Steele's Poor Planning and the Dark Demon force two Actions in one Action Phase, which one applies?
- If you gain your sixth Spellbook during your Action Phase, can you take Unlimited Battle that same turn?
- Which Actions cost 1 extra Power under Ice Age, and which are free?
- Does Ice Age raise the cost of Controlling or Abandoning a Gate?
- Does Ice Age raise the cost of Lethargy or Thousand Forms?
- Can Black Goat summon Monsters alongside another Action under the revised Fertility Cult?
- Is the second Action from Yellow Sign's Screaming Dead or He Who Must Not Be Named Spellbook optional?
- Can a Great Old One capture an enemy Cultist without a Monster in the Area?
- Where can the Acolyte placed by a failed Ghroth roll go, and whose Acolyte is it?
- When the Ancients force each enemy to Summon a Monster for free, can a faction with no Gate still summon?
- Can you take Unlimited Battle before and after your single Action, and decide afterwards whether it was your only Action?
- With six Spellbooks, can you move, battle, then move the same Units again and battle in a new Area?
- Can one Move Action take Units from more than one Area?
- When can you Devolve in response to an enemy moving a Monster into your Area?
- Can you summon several Monsters, or recruit several Cultists, in one Action?
- Can you recruit a Cultist into an Area with no Gate if you have a Unit there?
- Can an enemy Monster capture your Cultist when you also have a Monster in the Area?
- Does a Moonbeast on a Spellbook cancel effects that are already in play?
- Can a Moonbeast be placed on an Independent Great Old One's spellbook, and when does it leave?
- Can more than one Moonbeast sit on the same spellbook?
- What does a Moonbeast on Cursed Slumber do?
- If a Moonbeast is on Energy Nexus, does the battle still happen?
- Can a submerged Cthulhu re-emerge while a Moonbeast is on Submerge?
- If Recriminations removes a spellbook that has a Moonbeast on it, does the Moonbeast stay on that spellbook?
- If a Moonbeast enters play through Death From Below or Desecrate, does it go to a spellbook or to the map?
- Can you take control of an abandoned Gate outside your turn, or with no Power?
- If your Power drops to 0, can you still take 0-cost Unlimited Actions on your turn?
- With six Spellbooks, can Battle be my only Action for the turn and still let me Control a Gate?
- Can you take an Unlimited Action, such as controlling a Gate, and then Pass to drop your Power to zero?
- How do Servitors get summoned after you buy them?
- Does Opener of the Way's Beyond One let you choose whether the gate and its controlling unit move along?
- Can Beyond One move Yog-Sothoth, or be used in an Area containing Yog-Sothoth?
- Can Beyond One move a gate using any Cost 3+ unit, or only Opener's own units?
- Can the Hound of Tindalos teleport to The Moon?
- Can a player recruit more than one Cultist during the Action Phase?
- What is the difference between a turn (round) and a phase in the Action Phase?
- Can a Flying Polyp capture Cultists that have a friendly Monster in their Area?
- Do you have to pay Power for the second Action after The Screaming Dead?
- Can the King in Yellow take The Screaming Dead again as the second Action?
- Can a Move be the second Action after The Screaming Dead?
- If the other players together cannot pay Thousand Forms' full roll, does Crawling Chaos get the full amount?
- If a player is at 0 Power and a Cultist dies, does his turn come back when he regains Power?
- Can a player place a Cultist on an open Gate with his last Power?
- What must be true to use Thousand Forms, and how often?
- Does Thousand Forms target an opponent?
- Can a Cultist placed by Cannibalism take control of a Gate right away?
- Is Devolve an Action, and can it be used with zero Power?
- Does Ice Age add +1 Power to Ancient Sorcery when a Serpent Man casts it there?
- Can Shub-Niggurath's Avatar target her own faction to swap places with her own Acolyte?
- Can Black Goat take the Ghroth Action when there are no Fungi on the map?
- Can a Unit be moved more than once in the same Action Phase?
- How does the Hound of Tindalos move?
- When do you pay the Power for an Action: before taking it or after?
- Does Tcho-Tcho's Surprise! cost 1 extra Power when the chosen Area has an Ice Age marker?
- Can Yog-Sothoth alone awaken an Independent Great Old One?
- Does Yog-Sothoth count as a controlled gate for gaining Power and Doom?
- Can the Sleeper capture neutral Monsters such as Zoogs?
- How much Power does Windwalker gain from Hibernate when no enemy Great Old Ones are in play?
- Does Windwalker's Hibernate count all Great Old Ones, and can it more than double his Power?
- Which Great Old One can be used to awaken Azathoth?
- Does swapping a Spellbook with Recriminations let you reuse a once-per-round Spellbook?
- Can you recruit a Cultist when you have no Units on the map?
- Can Crawling Chaos use Thousand Forms after sacrificing a High Priest?
- Can you buy linked Spellbooks one at a time instead of both in one Action?
- When Tsathoggua's Capture Monster hits an Area with several Monsters or Cultists, who chooses which unit is captured?
- Can Ghroth's Cultists ability eliminate enemy High Priests?
- If you have passed at zero Power and later gain Power, can you act again?
- Can you capture a Tcho-Tcho High Priest the same way as an Acolyte?
- Can you repeat the same Action several times in one Action Phase?
- Can Crawling Chaos roll for Thousand Forms when the other players are out of Power?
- Are Desecrations limited to 12 markers?
- Can you use Zingaya to remove a Unit from another Area when you have no Undead in your pool?
- Does a player who refuses to lose anything block the group agreement needed for Ghroth or Thousand Forms?
- Must Screaming Dead move all the Undead in an Area together?
- Can Yellow Sign's Give 3 Doom requirement be done as any Action in the round?
- How many Battles can you start in one Action Phase with Unlimited Actions?
- Do Filth tokens protect a Cultist from being captured?
- Is Move one atomic Action, so you cannot battle between its moves?
- If a Battle earns your sixth Spellbook, can you still take a Battle in the same round, and does that Battle count as Unlimited?
- Can a Spellbook requirement such as Yig's Messenger be activated during the Doom Phase?
- Can Burrow be used with only 1 Power if the Move costs 2 and regains 1?
- Does paying Power for a Spellbook requirement as your Action count as Passing?
- If Cthulhu Devolves after Crawling Chaos's move, can Crawling Chaos still take the Gate on his turn?
- Can Yellow Sign give 3 Doom to another player, and does Yellow Sign lose 3 Doom too?
- Can Yellow Sign desecrate a territory when it has no eligible Monsters left in its pool?
- Can you unlock the 4-Power or 6-Power Crawling Chaos Spellbook as a side effect of another Action that costs the same Power?
- Can you sacrifice a High Priest after another player announces a Battle that involves it?
- Can a High Priest be recruited, sacrificed, and recruited again?
- Does sacrificing a High Priest or using Devolve count as an Action for Unspeakable Oath?
- Can a player claim a Spellbook when its requirement is met during another player's turn?
- Can a faction take a Unique Action when its special requirement is not met, such as its Great Old One not being in play?
- Can The Beyond One move a Gate controlled by another player?
- Can you declare Unlimited Battle right after an Action that ends you in an Area with an enemy?
- Can Devolve be used between the two immediate Actions from Hastur's He Who Is Not to Be Named?
- Do Spellbook requirements such as Pay 4 Power count as separate Actions?
- If the foes agree within the minute on Thousand Forms, but one has not yet moved their Power marker, does Crawling Chaos get the rolled Power?
- Does Passion trigger when an enemy's Dreams eliminates your Yellow Sign Cultist?
- Can you awaken Cthugha after Cthulhu is already in play, and what does it cost?
- Can Opener of the Way place a neutral Loyalty Card monster at an enemy or abandoned Gate with They Break Through?
- Can Atlach-Nacha take Cosmic Web without spare Power?
- Can Desecrate place a Filth token?
- Can the Sleeper use Lethargy more than once in a round?
- Can the Hound of Tindalos be Summoned onto an enemy Gate after it has been obtained?
- When a High Priest is eliminated to awaken Ubbo-Sathla, does the controller gain the 2 Power given for a sacrifice?
- Can Independent Great Old Ones be awakened at any time, or only during the Doom or Ritual phase?
- What happens to a neutral Monster a player bought with Doom when it dies?
- If a faction occupies 8 Areas in one turn, does it get both the 6-Area and 8-Area Spellbooks at once?
- Is Screaming Dead's movement the same as the Move Action?
- Can Byathis or the Hound of Tindalos go along when Cthulhu submerges, and does the Hound teleport?
- Can Dread Curse of Azathoth kill an enemy protected by a Post-Battle save, such as Emissary of the Outer Gods or Rhan-Tegoth's Eternal?
- When does a player take control of a Gate after a Battle or Capture?
- Can Great Cthulhu use the Devolve Spellbook after his own regular Action on his turn?
- Can you build a Gate in an Area with enemy Units present, if you have a Cultist there?
- Can you take several Unlimited Actions in one turn, such as summoning and then declaring Battle?
- Does moving one Unit and then declaring an Unlimited Battle cost 2 Power in total?
- Can Energy Nexus move several Units for its one Action, and can it be combined with Burrow?
- Can a Shantak carry a Cultist when it moves with Horror Steed?
- Can you remove your own Units from the map and place them elsewhere?
- Can Cthulhu submerge an independent Great Old One in his Area along with the faction's Units?
- Can Windwalker move a Unit into Ithaqua's Area and then carry it along with Arctic Wind in the same Move Action?
- Does summoning Shub-Niggurath satisfy the Black Goat Spellbook's requirement to sacrifice two Cultists?
- Can the Ancients awaken an independent Great Old One, such as Hagarg Ryonis, without a Great Old One of their own once they control four Cathedrals?
- Can Azathoth's Recriminations Spellbook take a Spellbook another player holds?
- Can Cthulhu's Dreams replace a Cultist in an Area that holds enemy Monsters?
- Can Ithaqua's awakening remove Yog-Sothoth from an Area on the Shaggai map?
- Which Ancient Sorcery wording is correct, and does the Sleeper keep Death From Below?
- If a Tcho-Tcho faction returns High Priests after a Hierophant ritual but has no space to place them, does it get them back?
- How much Power does Cthulhu's Submerge cost, and how much does it cost to resurface?
- If a Hibernating faction gains Power, can it hibernate again or act?
- After Cthulhu submerges, can he emerge on his next Action, and can other Units act in the same Action?
- How much Power does Beyond the One cost to steal a Gate from an Ice Age Area?
- Can Cthulhu submerge and then resurface in a later round, and do submerged Cultists still generate Power?
- Can Black Goat's Cultists under the Frenzy Spellbook be captured?
- Can the King in Yellow place Desecration markers in ocean Areas?
- Can Great Cthulhu use Dreams when he has no Acolyte in his pool?
- Can Opener of the Way use Beyond One to move a High Priest that is sitting on a Gate?
- Can Cthulhu attack right after a 0-cost submerge placement Action?
- Who chooses which Acolyte is eliminated by Zingaya?
- Before a player has six Spellbooks, can they move and then battle in the same turn?
- Can Shub-Niggurath be summoned using a controlled Gate that the summoning Action itself makes uncontrolled?
- Does Umr at-Tawil's gate discount also reduce the cost of building a Cathedral?
- Can a killed Great Old One come back into play?
- How are kills and pains applied when Dread Curse of Azathoth rolls dice, and does it hit your own Units?
- How much Power does Fertility Cult plus Call Slime cost to place six Slimes?
- Where must Azathoth be placed when he is summoned?
- Can you summon another Monster in the same round at a different Gate you control?
- Can Sleeper's Ancient Sorcery be activated more than once to copy several enemy Unique abilities?
- Can Ghatanothoa's Mummify carry over to the next turn?
- Does Tcho-Tcho's Hierophant work when no High Priests are in the game?
- How is a neutral Great Old One acquired?
- Can Great Cthulhu recruit Cultists while submerged?
- Can Shub-Niggurath's Avatar capture an enemy Gate by recruiting a Cultist?
- While hibernating, can Windwalker still gain, spend or lose Power, and use abilities that are not Actions?
- Can the King in Yellow teleport when he uses his move Spellbook?
- When can a High Priest be sacrificed if two players both want to use one?
- What does a High Priest do?
- Can a Silence token be used when a player has zero Power?
- Does Nyogtha need Nightmare Web to be awakened after a tentacle dies?
- How does Tcho-Tcho Idolatry movement work?
- When Windwalker takes Hibernate, how much Power does Opener gain from Windwalker's Power?
- Can an Independent Great Old One be summoned in an Area with another Independent Great Old One you control?
- Can a Cultist be moved onto or off a Gate for free?
- Can a Filth token placed by Abhoth's Filth Action be used for Black Goat's Fertility Cult?
- Can a Gate be placed in an Area the King in Yellow has desecrated?
- Can Great Cthulhu's Dreams replace an opposing Cultist with a Cultist from the unrecruited pool?
- Does He Who Must Not Be Named need the Cultist to be near Hastur?
Gather Power and First Player
- Do submerged Cultists still generate Power in the Gather Power Phase?
- Why does Great Cthulhu always take the first turn in Cthulhu Wars?
- Can Windwalker be First Player on turn 1 when Great Cthulhu is not in the game?
- Can Gather Power leave a player with less than half the Power of the leader?
- How much Power do controlled and abandoned gates give in Gather Power?
- What does Father Dagon's spellbook do, and when is it used?
- How does the Mao Ceremony work, and when does it resolve at the end of Gather Power?
- Does a Cultist sacrificed through Mao Ceremony still give Doom from its gate in the Doom Phase?
- Does an Elder Thing take control of an enemy Cultist, and does that Cultist still produce Power?
- Can you sacrifice a High Priest for Power in Gather Power, and does its gate still give Doom?
- Can a High Priest be sacrificed for its Power after Gather Power, or in the Doom Phase?
- Can you take a High Priest's Power in Gather Power and then sacrifice it for 2 more Power to become First Player?
- How much extra Power does Worship Services give when you have several gates in Cathedral areas?
- What happens to a captured Cultist, and can you keep it or regain it?
- In the Determine First Player Phase, who decides a tie for the most Power?
- Does Sleeper keep unspent Power when Windwalker's Hibernate is in play?
Doom Phase
- Does Cthulhu earn an Elder Sign for his first Spellbook in addition to the Elder Sign for awakening a Great Old One?
- Do Independent Great Old Ones give Elder Signs when you perform a Ritual of Annihilation?
- What is the Ghatanothoa spellbook requirement about Gates and Cultists?
- Is there still a Cleanup phase, and is there a Doom phase on the first turn of the game?
- Can the Ritual of Annihilation still be performed as an Action Phase action?
- Does each player count use its own Doom track, and how many spaces does it have?
- How does a Ritual of Annihilation work, and what does it give you?
- Are Elder Sign tokens hidden from the player who holds them, or only from opponents?
- Do you need a Great Old One or six Spellbooks to perform a Ritual, or any gates?
- Does a submerged Great Old One count for Ritual Elder Signs?
- How many Elder Signs does a Ritual of Annihilation give a player who controls several Great Old Ones?
- Does Cthulhu get an Elder Sign in the Doom Phase just for having a Great Old One in play?
- Can Opener of the Way earn Elder Signs?
- Does Bastet earn both bonuses when she is in an area with an enemy gate and an enemy Great Old One?
- Do neutral monster cats count as Faction Monster Cat varieties for Bubastis's Ailurophobia?
- Does Dragon Descending give a free ritual, or double the Doom from a paid ritual?
- Does Dragon Descending's doubled Doom from a Ritual of Annihilation also double the Elder Sign gained?
- What happens to a Serpent Man returned by Ancient Sorcery, and where can it be placed?
- Can Death From Below or Dematerialization be used after the Serpent Men return to the map under Ancient Sorcery?
- When do Doom Phase special events and map events resolve relative to Rituals of Annihilation and player Doom abilities?
- Where do Moonbeasts return during the Doom Phase, and do they keep Cultist abilities?
- Does a gate held on your faction card under Cursed Slumber still count for Doom at the end of the game?
- What does it cost to buy a Neutral Monster or an Independent Great Old One loyalty card?
- How many Loyalty cards can you buy in one Doom Phase, and when in the phase can you buy one?
- Can Opener of the Way use They Break Through to place the free Ghast from a Neutral Monster loyalty card at any gate, and does buying a Neutral Monster count as a Summon?
- If the game ends during the Doom Phase at 30 Doom, is the rest of the Doom Phase still played?
- How does Ubbo-Sathla's Hell's Banquet growth work after he is awakened?
- Does Ubbo-Sathla roll for growth in the Doom Phase of the round he is awakened?
- When several abilities or events apply in the same Doom Phase, such as Ubbo-Sathla's awakening and Tablets of the Gods, who picks the order?
- Does Great Cthulhu receive his spellbook in the first Doom Phase of the game?
- In your first game, should you skip the first Doom Phase?
- Can a player perform a second Ritual of Annihilation in the same Doom Phase, or after Instant Death is reached?
- What happens when the Ritual of Annihilation marker reaches Instant Death?
- When Tulzscha's Herald makes Windwalker pay 5 Power for a Ritual, does Windwalker still get the full Ceremony of Annihilation Power?
- When do Hierophants and Tablets of the Gods trigger during a Ritual, and does a High Priest gained from Hierophants count before the Tablets?
- Which monster does the Sleeper's Death From Below place, and can it be a neutral Monster?
- Does Bokrug's Doom that came to Sarnath still work when Bokrug is dead or off the map?
- Does Sleeper's Capture Monster give Power in the Doom Phase, and how much?
- Does an abandoned Chaos Gate become a normal Gate in the Doom Phase?
- Does a copied ability from Sleeper's Ancient Sorcery last past the Doom Phase?
- Is Tcho-Tcho's Sycophancy power mandatory when triggered?
- Can a player earn a Spellbook during the Doom Phase by meeting its condition?
- Can Black Goat use Blood Sacrifice in the Doom Phase after Doom passes 30 on the track?
- How do you show the current Ritual of Annihilation level when the marker is a large triangle?
- If Colour Out of Space causes Doom loss at the start of the Doom Phase, do you lose Doom you have just gained?
Battle
- Can you declare a Battle with units that have no Combat?
- Can Cultists with a Combat value, such as Frenzy Cultists, start a Battle?
- Can the independent Harbinger Great Old One start a Battle?
- Can Crawling Chaos use Abduct when its only unit in the Area is a Nightgaunt?
- How many Battles can you start in one Area per turn once Battle is unlimited?
- With six Spellbooks, does each unlimited Battle still cost 1 Power?
- If you gain your sixth Spellbook during a Battle, does that Battle become unlimited?
- Can a Spellbook gained during a Battle be used in that same Battle?
- Can you take an 'any time' Spellbook after a Battle is declared and use it in that Battle?
- What is the order of steps in a Battle?
- In Pre-Battle, whose abilities resolve first when both sides have them?
- If a Pre-Battle ability removes a unit, can that unit still use its own abilities?
- If Pre-Battle removes every unit on one side, does the Battle end before any dice are rolled?
- If Invisibility exempts one of several Undead or Byakhee, how many dice do the rest roll?
- What happens to Kills or Pains beyond the number of units in the Battle?
- Can one unit take more than one Kill or Pain in a single Battle?
- What is the difference between a Kill and an Elimination?
- If a Pained unit has nowhere to retreat, is it Killed or Eliminated?
- Do Eliminations count toward Kill-based Spellbook requirements, such as Cannibalism or Great Cthulhu's?
- If an ability cancels a Kill, such as Rhan-Tegoth's Eternal, does the Kill still count for a Spellbook requirement?
- Can a single Kill remove a Great Old One, and do units have hit points?
- How many combat dice does Nyarlathotep roll?
- How is Yog-Sothoth's Combat calculated when Opener of the Way is in play?
- When two Nyogtha units fight Battles in adjacent Areas, are they resolved one after the other, and can the free second Battle bypass the one-per-Area limit?
- If both Nyogtha units are in the same Area, how many dice are rolled, and can they capture two Cultists?
- Does Nyarlathotep's Harbinger trigger for each enemy Great Old One pained or killed, even if Nyarlathotep is pained or killed himself?
- Does Harbinger trigger from Pains that Black Goat's Necrophagy inflicts?
- Does Nyarlathotep gain his Elder Sign or Power when a Kill or Pain lands on a Great Old One that survives?
- Does Emissary of the Outer Gods protect Nyarlathotep from a Kill or an Elimination?
- Do battle abilities such as Madness, Emissary, Immortal, Regeneration or Channel Power apply to Dread Curse of Azathoth?
- With Madness in play, who decides where pained units go and in what order do they retreat?
- Can several pained units retreat into the same Area, or into an Area holding another faction's units?
- Can Howl retreat a unit into an Area holding the faction just battled?
- Can a pained Crawling Chaos unit retreat two spaces with Flight, or gain Flying when pained?
- Can pained units retreat across Eradicated Areas?
- When Gobogeg is Killed or Pained, what happens to the other units in the Battle?
- Are Pre-Battle and Battle abilities mandatory once you have them?
- Does Black Goat need a unit in the Battle to use Necrophagy, and can she use it at 0 Power?
- Do Ghouls brought in by Necrophagy fight in the Battle?
- Which units does Necrophagy's extra Pain hit, and can it pain your own units?
- When in the Battle can Necrophagy be used, and can it still add Pains after Kills are assigned?
- If neither faction in a Battle takes part, which of Cannibalism and Necrophagy resolves first?
- Can a faction use its Battle abilities in a Battle its units are not part of?
- Do Windwalker's Cannibalism spawns need Windwalker in the Battle, and do they cost Power?
- Can a Wendigo summoned by Cannibalism during a Battle be pained?
- Once Crawling Chaos or a Polyp makes a unit invisible, can it still be Devoured, pained or otherwise picked?
- Can an attacker's Devour or Absorb take a unit that a Flying Polyp would make invisible?
- Which units can a Flying Polyp's Invisibility target, and can the Polyp hide itself?
- Does Invisibility's 'per Flying Polyp present' count Monsters in the Battle or on the whole map?
- Can Invisibility be used so that Abduct cannot pick a unit?
- Who decides which unit takes a Kill, a Pain, a capture or a Devour?
- Does Hastur's Vengeance apply to every die rolled in a Battle?
- With Hastur's Vengeance, who decides where Kills and Pains land, and must Kills come first?
- Who decides whether Regenerate is used when Hastur's Kills hit Great Cthulhu and a Star Spawn?
- Does Yellow Sign's Passion give Power for every eliminated Cultist, or only for Kills?
- Does Passion give Power once per Battle or once per Cultist?
- Does Passion trigger when Ghroth makes Yellow Sign lose Cultists?
- Is the Azathoth Shriveling Spellbook mandatory when Opener of the Way is in play?
- Does Opener's Channel Power reroll the opponent's dice as well as his own?
- Can Opener use Channel Power more than once in the same Battle?
- Does Opener's Million Favored Ones upgrade pained survivors when no Pains or Kills occur?
- Can a unit that Howl removes from a Battle, or that is made invisible, still promote under Million Favored Ones?
- Which units does Million Favored Ones promote, and does it work when Energy Nexus removes the other side's units?
- Can a Spawn of Yog-Sothoth be promoted into Yog-Sothoth by Million Favored Ones?
- Can Million Favored Ones turn enemy Cultists into Mutants?
- Can Channel Power reroll the Star Vampire dice from Vampirism?
- Can you Shrivel your own unit to gain its Power?
- When a unit is Shriveled or killed, how much Power does its owner get if its cost was changed?
- If Servitors reduce a Star Vampire's combat dice, do its Kills and Pains still count?
- Does a Star Vampire roll drain Doom for a Kill and Power for a Pain, even if the result is changed?
- What counts toward Shub-Niggurath's combat value?
- Must Dark Young be in Shub-Niggurath's Area to add to her combat under Red Sign?
- Does Chaugnar Faugn's Miri Nigri give 3 Combat dice per Gate or per Area?
- Do Cultists keep their Cultist identity when they gain a Combat value, and can they still be captured?
- When a Cultist is killed in a Battle, is it counted as captured?
- Does Unholy Ground need the Ancients to be in the Battle?
- Does a Bhole destroy Yog-Sothoth when it moves into his Area, and does a Bhole count as a Great Old One?
- Does a Hound of Tindalos die when Cthulhu submerges with it?
- Does Bokrug come back after he is eliminated, for example by Cthugha's awakening?
- Can Cthulhu's Devour target a Great Old One or a Terror?
- Does Devour plus killing several Cultists in one attack give Power for each one?
- Can a Shoggoth eliminate its own units to add dice?
- How many Kill results does it take to eliminate a Star Spawn with Regenerate?
- Which units can Berserkergang eliminate?
- Can you avoid a Berserkergang Elimination by assigning Kills to Monsters or Cultists?
- Can Brain Cylinders be assigned a Pain or a Retreat, or be spared by Cthugha?
- When does Cthugha's spare ability apply, and who decides which unit is spared?
- If an Elder Thing is killed in combat, do enemy Great Old One Post-Battle abilities still trigger?
- When does Y'Golonac's Orifices trigger, and must the replacement come from a Pained unit?
- Does Tsathoggua count as a Formless Spawn for the Formless Spawn combat dice?
- How does Sleeper's Demand Sacrifice work?
- Does Energy Nexus resolve before Pre-Battle abilities such as Howl or Invisibility?
- Can Energy Nexus be chained to move Tsathoggua across the map in one turn?
- If the defender moves its units away after the attacker has paid for Energy Nexus, does the Battle end?
- Can Howl be used on a Great Old One?
- Which units are immune to Howl, and does Howl affect Abhoth's Filth tokens?
- Does Howl trigger once when several Wendigo are present, and does a Battle end early when one side has no units left?
- Can Seek and Destroy bring Hunting Horrors from elsewhere on the map into a Battle they are not part of?
- With two Wizards in an Area, do you get one or two Actions before a Battle there?
- When Daemon Sultan's Cosmic Ruler redirects a Kill to another Avatar, does Crawling Chaos still gain Power from the original target?
- How many combat dice does Daemon Sultan's Avatar Synthesis roll?
- Can you use the same Post-Battle ability twice in one Battle?
- Does Voonith's Vicious ability remove the opponent's Kills?
Victory: Ending and Winning the Game
- Do Independent Great Old One spellbooks count toward the six spellbooks needed to win?
- Can Windwalker still take his at-any-time spellbook if another player's Elder Sign reveal ends the game?
- When the game end is triggered, can you still take at-any-time actions such as turning in Elder Signs?
- Can you reveal Elder Signs at any time, and how many of each value are there?
- Must players reveal their Elder Signs during the game?
- Do Elder Signs still count if the game ends in the Doom Phase, and can other players reveal theirs?
- What happens when the Elder Sign supply runs out?
- Can you reveal Elder Signs during the Doom Phase to end the game and stop other players' rituals?
- If Doom reaches 30 during another player's Action Phase, does the game end immediately?
- Can the game end outside the Doom Phase once a player has 30 or more Doom?
- When a player reaches 30 Doom during the Doom Phase, what happens before the winner is declared?
- If a player passes 30 Doom in the Action Phase, do the Rituals of Annihilation still happen?
- In a two-player game, does reaching victory during the Action Phase end the game immediately?
- If the game ends and nobody has all six spellbooks, who wins?
- Do you need 30 Doom and all six spellbooks to win?
- What happens if two players tie on Doom and both hold all six spellbooks?
- How much Doom does Ubbo-Sathla give when killed in a two-player game?
- Does turn order decide the winner when several players reach 30 Doom with Rituals in the same Doom Phase?
- Do Independent Great Old Ones give Elder Signs when a Ritual of Annihilation is performed?
- Can you perform a Ritual of Annihilation without a Great Old One in play, or without all six spellbooks?
- Does a 'choose one' spellbook requirement, like Abhoth's or Cthulhu's, need a choice made in advance?
- Does Great Cthulhu's Mother Hydra count as having no Great Old One in an ocean area after she submerges with him?
- Can killing one Great Old One open two Great Old One spellbooks in one battle?
- Does summoning a Great Old One give you an Elder Sign?
Two Player Rules
- In a two-player game, does your partner faction count as another faction for Windwalker's spellbook requirement and for Arctic Winds?
- In a two-player game, which faction acts first in the Action Phase and in the Ritual of Annihilation?
- In a two-player game, can Yellow Sign's spellbook that gives another player 3 Doom give those points to his partner faction?
- In a two-player game, can Windwalker satisfy the six-Spellbook requirement by sacrificing Ithaqua?
- In a two-player game where each player controls two factions, does a card's 'player' or 'enemy' mean a faction?
- How does The Thousand Forms work in a two-player game?
- In a two-player game, how much Doom do you get for killing a variable-cost monster such as Cthulhu?
- In a two-player game, does sacrificing a unit give the opponent Doom?
- In a two-player game, is eliminating a Tcho-Tcho High Priest worth 3 Doom, or the average of its cost?
- In a two-player game, does the opponent gain Doom when Crawling Chaos uses Abduct?
- In a two-player game, how much Doom does the opponent get when a Black Goat unit with The Thousand Young is killed?
- In a 2-player game, what happens when you have 1 Power and the Decay marker is above zero?
- Which Ritual of Annihilation track does a 2-player game use?
Player Tips
- Can Black Goat's Fertility Cult summon several Cultists in one action?
- Does Black Goat's Fertility Cult let you summon neutral monsters in the same action?
- Does the Thousand Young spellbook make Ghouls free for Black Goat?
- Can the Black Goat choose her own faction as the target for her Avatar ability?
- Can Zin-Gaya target a Cultist that is on a Gate?
- Can a Flying Polyp turn itself invisible?
- Does the Yellow Sign spellbook requirement make Yellow Sign give away 3 Doom?
- When Opener of the Way summons a group of Ghasts, can they all be placed at any gate using They Break Through?
- Can Terrors or Great Old Ones benefit from They Break Through when summoned?
Cthulhu Wars: AncientsExpansion
- Does an Ancients free-summon spellbook still give a free Monster to a player who controls no Gate?
- Does the Ancients spellbook that makes opponents summon their highest-cost Monster free still work when a same-type Monster is already in play?
- If the lowest or highest cost Monster named by the Ancients' spellbook is gone from your pool, what do you summon instead?
- Does a Kill result protect a Great Old One from Unholy Ground's Elimination?
- Can the Ancients' Unholy Ground post-battle ability be used when the Ancients are not in the battle, or when the faction has no units in it?
- Do the Ancients faction need an independent Great Old One to play?
- Does an Independent Great Old One awakened by The Ancients count as a faction Great Old One for the Elder Sign ritual?
- Which Independent Great Old Ones can factions awaken in a game?
- Can the Ancients summon an independent Great Old One when they have no Great Old One of their own?
- Is there a limit on how many Independent Great Old Ones the Ancients can awaken?
- Where does the Ancients place an independent Great Old One awakened with four Cathedrals?
- Can a player take a Great Old One that is not in play as an Independent Great Old One?
- Can Opener of the Way use They Break Through to summon monsters at an enemy-controlled gate under the Ancients spellbook requirement?
- Can the Ancients use Dematerialization to move a Cathedral?
- Does the Servitors' summon ability apply when a spell requirement summons the most expensive monster?
- If you swap out Extinction with Recriminations, are your eliminated Yothans still removed from the game?
- Does Worship Services pay the Ancients player and the enemy player equally when several Cathedrals are involved?
- What happens to a Cathedral when a Worm degrades in its area on the Shaggai map?
Cthulhu Wars: BubastisExpansion
- Does Bubastis's Carnivore gain Doom when Creeping Chaos's Abduct makes its own unit get eliminated?
- Can Catnapping choose the Bubastis player's own faction?
- Can Bubastis's Earth Cats capture an enemy Cultist?
- Can the King in Yellow desecrate on the Moon?
- Do monsters that Opener of the Way summons to the Moon give Bubastis Power when they leave it?
- Does the Bubastis Moon's 'move and be Pained freely' mean units can move without paying Power?
- Does Bubastis get a High Priest, and what does its rule do when the game uses High Priests?
- Does Ferox stop Bastet, an Elder God, from capturing your Cultists?
- Does Bubastis's Ailurophobia give 1 Doom per cat in an enemy area, and does an Earth Cat count as a Faction Monster Cat for it?
- Where does Bubastis summon its monster cats?
- Can Bastet (Bubastis) capture a cultist?
- Can Crawling Chaos capture or kidnap Bubastis's cats in a two-player game?
- Can Bubastis or Daemon Sultan be played on the older maps?
- Is Bubastis's Requires Attention Ritual of Annihilation an extra ritual or its normal ritual?
- Does a unit leaving the Moon by being killed trigger Catnapping's Power gain?
- Can Bubastis build or control gates?
Cthulhu Wars: Yuggoth Map ExpansionExpansion
- Can Brain Cylinders control Gates?
- Does shriveling a Brain Cylinder give any power?
- Are Brain Cylinders cultists, and do abilities that affect Cultists also affect them?
- Can Brain Cylinders travel with a unit moved by Shantaks, Submerge or Screaming Dead?
- Can Dreams target a Brain Cylinder on a gate?
- How does capturing a Brain Cylinder work, and can it be converted?
- Can a Brain Cylinder be assigned Pains or only Kills?
- Does the Watcher of the Pyramid count as a Great Old One?
- What does the Watcher have on the Yuggoth Map: Spellbooks, Doom, or dice for Ithaqua?
- How many combat dice does Ithaqua roll when attacking the Watcher on the Yuggoth map?
- When does the Watcher take its moves relative to the normal actions?
- Does the Watcher on the Yuggoth map have to attack your own units when only your faction is in range?
- Does an uncontrolled Gate on the Green Pyramid give the extra Power?
- Does Black Goat's Thousand Young reduce the cost of Slime Molds?
- Does the Ice Age surcharge apply to Surgery, and where is it measured?
- Do the Librarian and the Custodian in the Library at Celaeno count as any unit type?
- Can the Watcher or Brain Cylinders be used in games that are not on the Yuggoth map?