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