The story in Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics ties in with the current pen & paper campaign

The XCOM-style action of Achtung! Cthulhu connects with and fleshes out the story of the currently-running beer-and-pretzels Achtung! Cthulhu tabletop campaign - if you play one, it’ll provide additional details for the other. “This campaign is actually connected with the current roleplaying game campaign that’s going on at the moment,” Auroch Digital producer Peter Willington explained at Gamescom this week. “So you’ll find out stuff in this game, and if you’re an Achtung! Cthulhu player, you’ll go ‘ooooh, that’s where that came from!’” Willington provided an example of that crossover, although be warned - it’s a spoiler for some of the story content in Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics, and given the thematic material, you might understandably want to go in with as little foreknowledge as possible. “Basically, in this game there is a prototype weapon, and in the RPG, the weapon is already available,” Willington said. “Nobody has any idea where that’s come from. In this game [Tactics], we’re going to explain where that weapon actually came from, how it came about, who was involved in doing it, who tried to sabotage the prototype, all of this kind of stuff.”