Sniper Elite: Eagle's Nest Expansion

Elevate your stealth operations with the Sniper Elite: Eagle's Nest Expansion from Rebellion Unplugged Games. This essential expansion for 1 to 4 players expands the intense tactical combat of the base game, offering a play time of 40 to 70 minutes per scenario. Moving beyond the original maps, this box takes the hidden movement mechanics and tense push-your-luck chit-pull token bag drawing to new, high-stakes environments.

Allied operatives must infiltrate the tight, claustrophobic corridors of the Axis elite's holiday retreat or navigate the sweeping, grand layout of a heavy water facility. Featuring four brand-new playable snipers, fresh loadout gear, and custom solo deck challenges, this expansion offers incredible replayability for tabletop tacticians. Prepare your crosshairs, stay in the shadows, and execute the perfect strategy.

Return to the Shadows of World War II

The fight against the Axis war machine scales up in the Sniper Elite: Eagle's Nest Expansion. Developed by Rebellion Unplugged Games, this major expansion introduces two drastically contrasting battlegrounds that push the core game’s signature cat-and-mouse wargaming mechanics into thrill-inducing territory. Whether managing the defenses as Axis commanders or sneaking through enemy territory as an Allied operative, players will experience a high-stakes tabletop conversion of the classic tactical video game series.

Diverse New Battlegrounds and Core Gameplay

This expansion introduces a double-sided playing board featuring two distinct, historically themed tactical environments:

• The Eagle’s Nest: Nestled high above Berchtesgaden, this alpine hideaway turns the game into a fast-paced, close-quarters wargame. With strict indoor rules governing tight hallways and small rooms, interior walls completely block standard line-of-sight. Players must rely heavily on open doorways to clear angles, creating a tense, claustrophobic sweep.
• The Heavy Water Facility: Set in an isolated valley, this map operates at a much wider spatial scale than the base game maps. It forces long-range planning, precision movement, and careful navigation around open terrain where a single mistake can leave the sniper dangerously exposed.

Advanced Mechanics and Fresh Operatives

At the heart of Sniper Elite is the hidden movement grid, where the sniper tracks their position on a dry-wipe mini-map while the defenders command squads across the main board. When the sniper fires, they pull tokens from a bag. Drawing too many noise tokens gives away your grid position, capturing the risk-vs-reward thrill of taking a shot.

The Eagle’s Nest Expansion injects massive asymmetric variety by introducing four new alternative Allied Snipers. Players are no longer restricted to Karl Fairburne; they can choose distinct operatives like Jun from Zombie Army or Major Eazy from the classic Battle comics, each bringing unique special tracking abilities and custom starting tokens to the bag. New strategic loadouts—such as climbing gear, diving equipment, and the close-quarters Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife—allow the sniper to manipulate terrain features and escape tight corners.

Replayability and Solo Play

Designed for 1–4 players with a swift 40–70 minute runtime, the expansion scales wonderfully across player counts. For lone wolves, the package features custom-designed defender control cards created by Dávid Turczi and Noralie Lubbers. These solo cards govern the Axis AI across both map layouts, providing a brutal, highly reactive puzzle for single-player wargaming. Combined with variable objective cards and new specialist defenders, no two infiltration attempts will play out the same way.

BOARDGAMEGENERAL ADVICE

As the wargame and hidden movement specialists here at Boardgamegeneral, we highly recommend the Sniper Elite: Eagle's Nest Expansion if you already love the base game. This expansion is best suited for intermediate players and veterans who understand the core mechanics and want to dial up the tactical complexity.

Fans of hidden movement titles like Mind MGMT, Letters from Whitechapel, or Fury of Dracula will instantly appreciate the deep mechanical tension present here. The primary strength of this box is its sheer variety. Doubling your map count and introducing four distinct asymmetric snipers completely changes how both sides approach the hidden board. The close-quarters indoor rules for the Eagle's Nest map add an incredibly tense, puzzle-like layer to line-of-sight tracking.

A potential drawback is that it requires the core box to play and does not radically alter the base engine—it is fundamentally an injection of "more and better" content rather than a redesign.

Verdict: If the core game has hit your table regularly, this expansion is an essential purchase that breathes fantastic new life into your stealth wargaming sessions.