OPERATION BLACKSAND

OPERATION BLACKSAND

24-HOUR IMMERSIVE MILSIM

📍 Location: Humber Airsoft
📅 Date: February  6th & 7th

THE OPERATION

A new drug. A growing insurgency. A region on the brink of collapse.

Deep within Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor, a new synthetic narcotic known as BLACKSAND has emerged.

Local warlords and insurgent organisations have established extensive smuggling networks, using isolated villages, woodland compounds and remote supply routes to manufacture and distribute the substance.

What began as a local criminal enterprise has developed into a sophisticated operation, financing armed militias, corrupt officials and foreign-backed insurgent groups.

In response, a NATO-led Task Force has been deployed to disrupt the narcotics network, identify its leadership and dismantle the infrastructure supporting the operation.

However, the situation is far from straightforward.

A local Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is also operating within the area, investigating corruption, gathering evidence and attempting to identify those responsible for the growing trade.

With competing interests, shifting loyalties and millions at stake, every faction has its own objectives.

Control the supply. Control the region.

Welcome to OP BLACKSAND.

TICKETING OPTIONS – OP BLACKSAND

To make sure players can experience the operation regardless of their availability, OP BLACKSAND offers two ticket options.

Whether you’re deploying for the daytime phase or committing to the full 24-hour operation, you’ll become part of an evolving battlespace where your decisions and actions influence the wider campaign.

🟢 DAY OP TICKET

Time: 10:30 – 18:30, Saturday
Cost: £20 Deposit

£40 Cash on Arrival

Ideal for: Players wanting to experience the opening phase of OP BLACKSAND, including combat patrols, raids, reconnaissance, faction operations and storyline-driven missions.

Day players will be fully integrated into their assigned faction and participate in the ongoing operation.

🔴 FULL MILSIM TICKET

Time: 10:30Saturday – 10:30 Sunday
Cost: £30 Deposit

£80 Cash on Arrival

Ideal for: Players looking for the complete immersive 24-hour Milsim experience.

Experience extended patrols, night operations, intelligence gathering, faction negotiations, covert missions and evolving objectives throughout the night.

Players should be prepared to operate from established FOBs or patrol bases, manage their equipment and supplies, and remain immersed throughout the operation.

The operation doesn’t stop when the sun goes down.

PLAYER EXTRACTION

To maintain immersion, players leaving at the end of the daytime session will be extracted in accordance with their faction.

Task Force personnel will withdraw to the designated safe zone under patrol.

Insurgent and militia personnel will leave the operational area in a civilian style.

FACTIONS

TASK FORCE ATLAS

Deployed into the Wakhan Corridor to disrupt the BLACKSAND network and restore regional security.

Task Force personnel will conduct offensive operations, reconnaissance patrols, targeted raids and intelligence-led missions against insurgent infrastructure.

OPFOR – INSURGENT / MILITIA FORCES

Operating throughout the woodland and surrounding settlements, local insurgent organisations have established control over valuable territory and smuggling routes.

The BLACKSAND trade provides vital funding for their continued operations.

Players will operate within an irregular command structure, defending territory, conducting ambushes, transporting supplies and completing faction-specific objectives.

SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT (SIU)

A specialist investigative element operating within the region.

Unlike conventional military forces, the SIU is focused on criminal investigations, intelligence gathering and exposing the individuals responsible for the BLACKSAND trade.

Operating between military forces, local communities and criminal organisations, the SIU may find itself negotiating with individuals that other factions have been ordered to eliminate.

Their presence introduces an additional layer of investigation, interrogation, intelligence gathering and roleplay to the operation.

In BLACKSAND, not every objective can be completed with a rifle.

UNIFORM GUIDELINES

Uniform requirements are essential for faction identification and maintaining immersion.

TASK FORCE – NATO

All Task Force personnel must wear modern military uniforms in approved desert camouflage patterns.

Acceptable Patterns:

• Multicam (MC)
• Multicam Arid
• AOR1
• Desert MARPAT
• Desert DPM

Tan, coyote brown and desert-pattern tactical equipment is preferred.

Modern helmets, plate carriers, chest rigs and appropriate military equipment are encouraged.

OPFOR – MILITIA / INSURGENTS

OPFOR players should represent irregular militia, insurgent or local paramilitary forces.

Acceptable Clothing:

• Local civilian clothing in natural or earth tones
• Woodland camouflage
• Mixed civilian and military clothing
• Traditional headscarves and shemaghs

Lightweight chest rigs, improvised loadouts and irregular equipment are encouraged. No helmets or NATO style equipment allowed.

Desert camouflage patterns reserved for Task Force personnel are not permitted. Non Adherence to uniform will not be accepted.

SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT

SIU personnel should adopt a plainclothes law-enforcement or specialist investigative appearance.

Civilian clothing, discreet tactical equipment and low-profile loadouts are encouraged.

Specific identification requirements will be provided to assigned personnel before the event.

WHAT TO EXPECT

OP BLACKSAND is a storyline-driven, immersive Milsim experience designed around more than conventional force-on-force gameplay.

Players can expect:

• 24-hour continuous operations
• Structured faction command and objectives
• Insurgent strongholds and defended positions
• Narcotics production and smuggling storylines
• Intelligence gathering and evidence recovery
• Civilian interaction and roleplay
• High-value targets and faction leadership
• Night operations and tactical patrols
• Dynamic missions influenced by player decisions
• A living operational environment where actions have consequences

This is not a standard skirmish day.

Players are expected to work within their assigned faction, follow their command structure and contribute to the wider operation.

Whether you’re conducting a NATO raid, protecting a militia shipment or investigating a suspected BLACKSAND distributor, your actions will help determine how the operation unfolds.

OP BLACKSAND

Every faction has an agenda. Every shipment has a price. Every decision has consequences.

BAD WOLF TACTICAL — STAY DANGEROUS.