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Black Ops

Tactical Espionage Wargaming
Series: Osprey Wargames
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Black Ops by Guy Bowers delves into the world of covert military operations, exploring various high-stakes missions across different conflicts. The book offers insights into the strategies, equipment, and personnel involved, shedding light on the clandestine activities that influenced historical military outcomes. It's an intriguing dive into the hidden facets of modern warfare.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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You might enjoy this book if you have an interest in the intense and secretive world of military special operations. It offers a compelling look into covert missions and the strategies behind them, appealing to those fascinated by military history and tactical warfare.

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Black Ops

Featuring stealthy extraction and surveillance missions to overt raids and assaults, this volume offers a wargame of tactical espionage combat that recreates the tension and excitement.

A skirmish wargame of spies, assassins, special forces, and the missions that can never be revealed.

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Black Ops is a skirmish wargame of tactical espionage combat that recreates the tension and excitement of modern action-thrillers such as the Bond and Bourne films. The fast-play rules keep all the players in the thick of the action, while the mission generator provides a wide range of options for scenarios – from stealthy extraction or surveillance missions to more overt raids and assaults.

Stealth, combat, and technical expertise all have a role to play, and players may recruit a number of different operative types – spies, mercenaries, criminals, hackers, special forces, and many more – to recruit the best possible team for the job. Players may also choose to join a faction – powerful organisations, intelligence agencies, criminal syndicates, militaries, or rebel groups, each with a stake in international affairs.

By doing so, their team may receive certain benefits, but may also find itself limited at a crucial time. With the variety offered by the characters, factions, and scenarios, no two games of Black Ops should ever be the same!

Series: Osprey Wargames

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781472807816

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 October 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Osprey Publishing

Illustration: 44 col 1 b/w

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Dmitry Burmak
  • Illustrated by Johan Egerkrans

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 6.0mm

Width: 182.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 234g

Pages: 64

About the Author

Guy Bowers has been gaming from an early age, making up boardgames to keep his sisters amused at the age of 8, and getting into roleplaying and wargaming by 13. In 2002 he started playtesting books for Warhammer Ancient Battles, before eventually writing his own - Siege and Conquest. He has contributed articles to many wargaming magazines, including Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy, for which he has also served as the editor since 2009. Dmitry Burmak is a freelance artist from Moscow, Russia. After graduating as an engineer, he decided to change his career plans and took another degree in Fine Art. Dmitry started as an artist in the video games industry and now works as a freelance illustrator with his wife Kate, who is also an artist. Dmitry specializes in fantasy and sci-fi art for roleplaying games, card games and video games.

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