Sniper Elite: Operation Kraken Game Review

For those unaware, Sniper Elite: The Board Game is a 1-vs-many game where one player is a sniper taking on missions against the squads of German guards, controlled by all the other players. When I played the game a few years back, I really enjoyed the mix of stealth and battle that it brought to the hidden movement genre. After several plays, however, the lopsided nature of most of my games, combined with the relative lack of variety in the two included maps, meant that it only hit the table on a limited basis. Enter Operation Kraken, the newest expansion…

More than just a Pretty Face

The first thing that struck me were the new maps, which not only visually looked different from one another, but had several symbols and components not present in the base game. As I dove in, it became clear that the designers were aware of the issues that I ran into when it came to replayability. The Operation Kraken maps are not just “more of the same” but fundamentally change how the game is played, for the better.

In the base game, there is basically an indoor and outdoor version of the same map, with a few tweaks on places to hide or line of sight. In Operation Kraken, one side of the map…

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