Diesel Punk - The shoggoths of Singapore, The Trophet of Tobruk, Cthulhu on the Kokoda.
Not sure if you've seen it, but a well written post-apocalypse setting. It's intended to be more of a pulp genre game though, but it could give some ideas.
Kind of like the opening of Hell Boy. I'd like to play that.
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I would prefer options to campaign in North Africa, Greece, the middle east, South East Asia and the south Pacific.
There were more countries involved in the war than just the US and Germany.
By and large, the presence of the Mythos would most likely remain geographically / seasonally affiliated with run-ins against the lesser critters.
A *lot* of it would take place in 'secondary' theatres.
Desperate Finns or Norweigans calling upon Ithaqua during their winter engagements. Desperate Japanese calling upon the same to stall the Soviet advance late in the war.
Deep Ones causing a ruckus in the Pacific Theatre, abducting people for interbreeding left and right. Might be responsible for 'disappearing submarines' as well.
Fungi from Yuggoth "disappearing" aircraft. - One really nasty adventure would be figuring out how to keep the flying brain bastards from mucking with aircraft carrying the proto-nukes...
Ghouls propogating in the aftermath of the major battles and strategic industrial bombing campaigns, *especially* in German industrial areas later in the war.
A ghoulish underground railroad 'relocating' a fictional concentration camp's inhabitants. If any of these camps had a 'mysterious fate', this would be absolutely brutal to play up.
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I can build a "our world but with the mythos in the wings" with things already available. If I were to be in the market for a new setting I would want the Mythos to be very present and very much effecting the world at large. Actually I would probably buy that whether or not I needed it.
- Attack on Pearl Harbor due to Japanese magi summoning swarms of deep ones and a few mutated giant ones. US makes recovery of Hawaiian islands a priority.
-Death Camps giant sacrificial altars to bring attract monstrous creatures to our world, which are then harnessed by the Nazis and unleashed against London in a terrible Helkrieg.
-Stalin steals the idea and calls forth ancient spirits of winter through the deaths of thousands of Ukranians. Marches against Germany in the East.
-Mi-go help US war effort by nudging development of diesel punk technology. Philadelphia Experiment gives antigravity and cloaking technology.
-Read Manhattan Projects Comic by Hickman. US unwilling to go the route of the death camps, but searches the world for artifacts to use as weapons against the Axis.
-Silver Shirts in the US open a gateway in Chicago to bring Nazi forces to the US, but get it wrong and now Chicago is rules by the Denizens of Leng - who are willing to deal with the US, or anyone else, for the right price.
Or worse ... the Gate opened to the Plateau of Leng lets in the spiders.
Desperate times in England result in a trip to a certain valley.
U.S. already had concentration camps (Japanese Americans) ... who is to say that certain ruthlessly-inclined types did not make use of them in sinister ways less overt than photographable giant altars? Desperate times and desperate measures.
African and Asian theatres gets UGLY when Mythos get involved. For one, whose to say Italy's 'campaign' in Ethiopia succeeds when Cthonians get involved. The Tcho-Tcho would VERY likely take advantage of the carnage and chaos in ways best left untyped on this forum. Numerous horrors all throughout both Axis and Allied nations.
Same for the Middle East - homeland of the infamous Mad Arab himself as well as Irem, City of Pillars supposedly lost somewhere in the desert. The "colonial holdings" here may well go radically different from historical. Lawrence of Arabia in this case might be a guise of the Black Man or something similar...
The "werewolf" SS might not be just a name...
MacArthur died after leaving the Phillipines ... the thing that stepped out of the submarine is not the man that stepped into it.
Lawrence was WWI and a liar and exaggerated his exploits.
Lawrence was WWI and a liar and exaggerated his exploits.
Really? For some reason I thought he was WW2. Learn something new every day. :)
Perhaps he is much more nefarious in this version ...
For world war 1 check out the exploits of the Desert Mounted Division. Especially the battle of Meggido (also known in the bible as Armageddon). Lawrence's Arab irregulars were brave and useful but the commonwealth troops did the lions share.
World War 2 it was the Vichy French that held Lebanon and Syria. Nobody talks about what happened there because it was primarily Australians and Free French fighting the Vichy French. The French don't like the shame of some of the having sided with the Nazi's and the Allies thought it would be bad press especially after Churchill had sunk the French fleet at Mers El Kebir.
I will, 8th Dwarf. Thanks!