Black Ops

✍ Scribed by Bowers, Guy

• Publisher: Osprey Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Series: Osprey Wargames
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Black Ops is a skirmish wargame of tactical espionage combat for two or more players. It recreates on the tabletop the tension and excitement of modern action-thrillers such as the Bond and Bourne films, The Unit or Burn Notice TV shows, and the Splinter Cell and Modern Warfare series of video games.

The fast-play rules use regular 6-sided dice and a card-driven activation system to keep all 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 or assassinations. Stealth, combat and technical expertise all have a role to play, and players may select from a number of different character 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 organizations, intelligence agencies, criminal syndicates, militaries or rebel groups,...

✦ Subjects

International relations;Undercover operations;Spy stories;Spy fiction;Electronic books;Suspense fiction;Thrillers (Fiction);Fiction;United States. -- Army. -- Delta Force -- Fiction;Undercover operations -- Fiction;International relations -- Fiction;United States. -- Army. -- Delta Force