Prepare For New Black Ops Rules Info By Osprey Publishing
May 26, 2015 by brennon
North Star have told us a few more of the secrets behind the September release of Black Ops which will be a new tactical espionage game by Osprey Publishing. See what you think of the details below...
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If you're looking for a gaming experience like Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Call of Duty or maybe even something akin to Splinter Cell this could be for you...
"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, 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!
Although the standard Black Ops setting is an ultra-modern world just a hair removed from our own, the rules are versatile and adaptable enough to suit OSS operations behind Nazi lines, Cold War-era infiltration missions in Moscow or Berlin, or sabotage runs against a rival corporation's interests in a cyberpunk dystopia, and the rulebook will include a guide to running games in such settings."
So, I'm going for Cyberpunk warfare and picking up some of those Human Interface: Nakamura Tower models to use for this I reckon when they're out!
What do you think of the game so far?
"It recreates on the tabletop the tension and excitement of modern action-thrillers such as the Bond and Bourne films..."
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Awesome, can think of many minis and scenarios id use for this
Osprey rules are very reasonably priced and I have plenty of figures laying around that I bought just because I thought they looked cool. This could be a good reason to paint some of them.
I can’t wait to get my hands on this game. I’ve even got a bunch of pseudo Foxhound minis lined up for it 😀
This certainly sounds interesting.
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All over this when it is released. Cyberpunk, espionage, covert ops.. I want to run it as XCOM campaign already
You could easily use Infinity miniatures for this as well. I’m very curious to learn more about their system. I’m hoping for something simple but not simplistic…
I like the idea of Anvil Industry’s new Afterlife – The Shards of Liberty minis for this, with their assault specialist models and the Spectre Operative team. Mine just arrived, superb quality and detailed sculpts.
I’ll be having this one. Bought the Victorian style one and played ‘Ronin’ which is a fast and furious game – great for an action/adventure game. Sure i’ll be able to use all the 20mm modern minis we use for FoF too. jaerin said what I was thinking – XCOM (cos the board game blows)
Anyone know when it is out?
I think this was down as a September release.
Cheers. Just had a look on their site and it is not on preorders. Did get a nice Spetsnaz book though – nice camo pics! Osprey rule.
Osprey tend to only put stuff up for preorder until the products are about 3 months from release, so this probably will go up at some point in June, I would think.
There are plenty of modern 1/72 plastics out there if you wanted to do it on the cheap
Best scale – you can build ‘armies’ of really stunning minis for almost nothing. Not that keen on plastics though, bought a few, but never found a ‘brand’ that I like enough to go nuts. Elhiem minis do my favourites, but check out Vepa minis too. My daughter bought me a few and they are stunning, if a little ‘bigger’. You can’t tell when you put them on the table though. For vehicles, and you need a few for modern games, plastic kits are great, but S&S is the boss for modern stuff. Beautiful and crisp models! If you can… Read more »
Ceaser miniatures did some nice ones but a lot seem discontinued
Italeri do a goodish range as well
Yea I’m hoping to use my Modern Aussies in this, sounds like a lot of fun.
This looks like my cup of tea, Spectre Miniatures do some great Modern Special Forces and Intelligence operatives in 28mm( recently bought some just to paint) that you could use with these rules as well as some amusing opposing force miniatures, but I agree the Elheim ones would be more affordable and paired with the S & S 20 mm vehicles would look pretty good ( I’ve got the elheim navy seal team and some s & s M-atv kits as their transport).
Too right – also it is easy to build some fantastic looking terrain. I made loads and it cost less than your average wacoshop kit!
Very interested, will certainly look it over, really really enjoy future wars, from small beer and chips game to full corporation themed recourse take over games. Will not be playing 20mm though its a scale I just cannot get back into, used to love, but gone down to 6mm for the large movie type vistas and 28mm for the skirmish stuff. And I find it supported better locally by others so not just a knee jerk reaction just better on the gaming front. Might even go bigger with skirmish. I have just the 41/2inch figures and drones in mind.
This looks like it be loads of fun.
I will have to have a closer look at that.
Merc minis from the kickstarter might work well with this. Or the Zero Agents.
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I have my operators on standby for infil
Time to dig the armies of GI Joe figures out of storage!
Just bought the book last night .. really looking forward to this one .. hoping for terrorist hunts, akin to the rainbow six games on the xbox .. not sure of scale though. most probably 20mm.