Welcome to the official guide for Operation: Silent Fury, a military-simulation and capture-the-flag type exercise. It is designed to give players a taste of military-themed action in a war game setting, as well as teaching them leadership skills, teamwork and strategic thinking. It also involves elements of camping and survival.

Operation: Silent Fury is also designed to be a fun and enriching experience. By combining time spent outdoors in the wilderness with the fun and action of a game, the exercise aims to promote positive changes in people. Stemming from childhood games of playing soldier, it also aims to provide a more accurate experience and teach the fundamentals of strategic thinking while developing a greater sense of camaraderie between friends and/or co-workers.

As always, the number one goal is to have fun! Keeping that in mind, let's begin with an overview of the exercise.

The objective of the exercise is to capture the opposing team’s flag as many times as possible. Given the allotted time frame, this can be anywhere from once to 100 times or more. When your team captures the flag, it must be returned to your base before points are awarded. See the section "Scoring Points" for details.

GETTING STARTED

Before you can begin the exercise, you must first determine what environment(s) you will conduct your operations in. There are three possible exercise types for this mil-sim.

• First is a land exercise, where the teams battle it out on land only, utilizing hiking, biking, stalking and other ground-based methods to reach the opposing base.
  

• Second is a maritime exercise, where the teams use watercraft (either canoes, kayaks, inflatable boats, lashed-together bleach bottles, anything that floats) or swimming to travel to the opposing base and get the flag.
  

• Third is an amphibious exercise, where the teams can do anything and go anywhere (except outside the defined area of operations) to reach the opposing base.

Once you have determined your operational environment, the teams must meet with their maps and clearly define an AO (Area of Operations). The AO cannot be breached and all teams must operate within its boundaries or will be penalized.

When the AO has been defined, you are ready to go. Each team will be deployed at a different Landing Zone within the AO and have free reign to find and capture the opposing team’s flag. Note that since the teams are setting out from separate LZs, a good portion of the game revolves around locating the Opposing Force. The team that locates the OpFor first has a significant advantage, especially if the OpFor is not aware of this discovery.

THINGS YOU'LL NEED

In order to begin the mission, there are several things you need first.

• Maps (1 for each team member, identical to the others and waterproofed)
  

• Radios (Preferably 1 for each team member, minimum 2 per team)
  

• Flags (1 for each team, easily distinguishable)
  

• Arm Bands (1 for each player, in their flag’s colour)
  

• Rules (1 copy for each team captain)
  

• Weapons (1 for each team member, ammo must be biodegradable)
  

• Scorecards (1 individual card for each team member and 1 team card, carried by the captain)
  

• Mode of Transportation (1 for each team, or as needed depending on team size)
  

• All Other Normal Camping Supplies (Enough to sustain each team member for the duration of the exercise)