Special Ops #9 consists of several articles, ASL/ASLSK scenarios, and the full game Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, designed by Yasushi Nakaguro and originally published by BonSai Games.

The game covers war, diplomacy, and politics in the Asia-Pacific theater, with one-year turns beginning in 1939 and ending in 1944. The game has one map, eight pages of rules, one player aid card, 24 cards, and 50 1" counters.

Featured articles:

• ABOUT THE GAME - Front Toward Enemy by Joe Chacon
• SCENARIO CHRONOLOGY - Great Campaigns of the American Civil War by Kenneth Oates
• ASL STARTER KIT #4 - Pacific Theater of Operations by Kevin G. Boles
• ASL STARTER KIT #4 - Sequence of Play by Multi-Man Publishing
• ASL STARTER SET - Hedge Rules examples of play by Multi-Man Publishing
• CONSCRIPTS IN RED FACTORIES - One Man's Treasure by Vincent Maresca
• OCS 101 - Smolensk: Barbarossa Derailed by Chip Saltsman
• DESIGNER'S PREVIEW - VCS Kharkov by Greg Blanchett

ASL/ASLSK Scenarios:

• ASLSK Scenario S72 - Stretched Thin at Altavilla, Americans vs Germans
• ASLSK Scenario S73 - West of the Vire, Americans vs Germans
• ASL Scenario O17 - White Russians, Americans vs Germans
• ASL Scenario O18 - Purple Heart Hill, Americans vs Germans