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Achtung! Cthulhu: Heroes of the Sea - Savage Worlds $14.00
Publisher: Modiphius
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by Cedric C. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 05/22/2013 17:45:52

Achtung!Cthulhu's Heroes of the Sea is the second adventure in the Nazi meets Mythos Zero Campaign. However, the events in the previous adventure, The Three Kings, do not directly lead to this adventure, and Heroes of the Sea can be played on its own. Besides the Overview, the adventure can be divided into three additional sections.

Random Encounters: I found this section the most disappointing because it gave the GM the least amount of prep to run an encounter. The encounters will be realistic, and I find these the hardest to roleplay. I highly recommend the GURPS WWII sourcebooks, particularly All the Kings Men, which describes Dunkirk, and Iron Cross, which details Germany's armies. GURPS WWII has some campaign advice for running cinematic vs. gritty WWII adventures.

Plot Episodes: The adventure itself is fantastically creative. "Heroes of the Sea takes place against the backdrop of Operation Dynamo, one of the biggest (if not the biggest) wartime troop evacuations in history. Following the German Blitzkrieg invasion of Belgium and France in May 1940, the combined forces of the British Expeditionary Force (the “BEF”) and the French First Army found themselves surrounded on three sides and in danger of being driven into the sea—a potential loss of almost half a million men." That's right -- Deep Ones. And U-boats. Oh, and a Nazi outpost in the Dreamlands, too. And an underwater archaeology site -- with Nazis. The adventure does a great job integrating these disparate elements together into an adventure.

Appendices: The contents end with appendices for Pregenerated Characters, New Rules, Vehicle stats, Dreamland Creature stats, and Handouts.

On the whole, I preferred this adventure over The Three Kings, although GMs may wish to do more WWII research so he can run the realistic encounters called for in this campaign.



Rating:
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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