I did so because, despite being a huge fan of the perennial gale of creative destruction, I am a big fan of my local store and the services it provides, and I don’t mind paying $15 extra to support them.
#Spectre ops boardgame full
As soon as it arrived at my local store, I went and picked it up, paying full MSRP. I have been wanting to acquire a hidden movement game for some time, and this looked like the perfect addition to my collection. Let me preface my review by saying that I was very excited for Specter Ops. Turn away from Plato’s Cave and except reality! Play this game! Play this game and determine if Dead of Winter is the Past, or is it our Future. The tension is immense! The mechanics are simple. Can you stay hidden ling enough to accomplish your mission and fulfill your part in returning the human race to its former glory or will you be successful in being the hunters and keeping the virus that plagues perfection abated? As an Agent, you move through the facility hiding from the hunters. One Agent is sent to destroy a Raxxon facility and is pursued by hunters bent on keeping the status quo. What is Specter Ops? In a world, where everything is perfect, humans are genetically engineered to perfection and the world is now at its height of Hegalian perfection, a group of rogue ‘humans’ think the past is better than Man’s push towards a better future. It is for us! It probably won’t have the replay of Memoir in our house, but it is a fantastic slide into the hidden movement genre.Īfter the game was done, I slid it back on the shelf next to Dead of Winter and thought, hey – I wonder if Raxxon was born out of the Zombie Apocalypse 100 years before that was DoW and their goal was to rid the world of the zombies and create better humans genetically modified to rebuild the race, or… Was it the agents of A.R.K that as they destroyed the security of the System, in a Children of Men scenario gave birth back to the unmodified humans and thus created the mutations of the zombies? It did find itself here in the house a bit later on our iPads and we liked it well enough, but the point of this run-on review is that it really is a good game if even just a little brother to games I haven’t played yet Letters from White Chapel or Fury of Dracula.Īll that is to say that this might be the perfect game for you. We tried to learn it on our own and frankly, it fell flat. We played Scotland Yard last year from the library back when they only games we had were Ticket to Ride and Pirate’s Cove. Either way… It is I still possible to like Zappa and not Varese as it is possible to like Memoir and not Longest Day. frank taught me Edgard, or Varese enlightened my Zappa. I’m actually not sure who taught me what. Pop Star hack, I say! Listen to his master, who? Varese. But spending time with composers of his past and especially those he influenced helped me gain a better understanding and appreciation of his music. No shared experience to take me to the intellectual tools he was using. (YouTube Ionisation for one of his pieces – think Layers of Sound passing thru planes of space and time.) It wasn’t that it wasn’t good, I had nothing to base it on. Hated it! Not that it was a bad game, I wasn’t ready for it! Kinda like the first time I heard the music of Edgard Varese. I played about 30 minutes of an epic chit filled wargame once. Theme and mechanic nicely woven together so I recognize both and light enough that I will continue to come back or even bring new people to it. It isn’t a real war game! Heck, it is barely a game at all! But honestly, I love games this style of game. You know Memoir! Memoir ’44 is to Wargamers as I’m sure Phase 10 is to you and me. You know the ones I mean… All those epic titles from Avalon Hill and the rest.īut, no… I mean Memoir ’44.
Epic battles from history played out on our game table with miniatures and finely crafted movement spanning the greatest battles, the finest officers and the most heroic soldiers. I mean, they are the go-to games we want to spend our Sunday afternoon playing.
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