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Special Ops Issue #8 is an expansion for Advanced Squad Leader released in 2018. Its main mechanics are Dice Rolling, Simulation, and Area-Impulse.
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About the game
Special Ops #8 consists of several articles, ASL/ASLSK scenarios and the full game Avenge Pearl Harbor Articles: LEARNING TO PLAY Operation Mercury (GTS) Tackling GTS on Your Own by Bruce Monnin SHINING HEART Thinking Behind Various Game series by Dean Essig It Never Snows (SCS) A Variable German Response scheme Autumn For Barbarossa (SCS) Designer's notes Avenge Pearl Harbor Card combinations Russian setup in Red Barricades (ASL) QUICK TO LAND Clearing the Runway for Fallschirmjaeger (SCS), A BCS PRIMER Tips for playing the Battalion Combat Series (BCS) series well RED WHITE AND BLACK A guide to Armor Values in BCS by Carl Fung ASL/ASLSK scenarios: ASL O15 - Highland Frank: Italy 1943, British vs Germans ASL O16 - Forced Crossing: Russia 1944, Soviets vs Germans ASLSK S62 - Reaper's Harvest: France 1944, British vs Germans ASLSK S63 - Nothing Left to Lose: Germany 1945, Soviets vs Germans
Mechanics
Publishers
- Multi-Man Publishing
Questions and answers
Special Ops Issue #8 belongs to these categories: Wargame, World War II, and Expansion for Base-game. Its main mechanics are Dice Rolling, Simulation, and Area-Impulse. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The catalogue lists Special Ops Issue #8 as an expansion for Advanced Squad Leader. Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to the base game and usually cannot be played on their own, so you need Advanced Squad Leader to use it. Check that your edition of Advanced Squad Leader is compatible, as some expansions were revised between editions.