FOB Spectre

FOB Spectre is the first Strike Force mission in the Call of Duty: Black Ops II single-player campaign. This mission is made available after completing Celerium, and it is mandatory for the player to complete this mission before proceeding on with the single-player campaign.

Overview
The mission starts with Briggs and David Mason introducing to the Strike Force team that the SDC is pressuring Russia into combining their military, making them a superpower that the rest of the global powers while have no choice but to engage in war with, causing the cataclysmic chaos that Menendez wants.

Mason then goes on to brief the team on their mission: FOB Spectre, a defense facility guarding the northern border of India, has been attacked by SDC forces. Although their forces were able to hold the attack, most of them were decimated, leaving the facility severely weakened and vulnerable. The JSOC Strike Force team is to be inserted to defend the facility and protect the SDC from invading India.

The mission first starts off with a tutorial, teaching the player how to switch between units, and command them, such as deploying a unit to a marked area, engaging hostiles and entering Tactical View, an overwatch point of view allowing the player to strategise and quickly jump to another unit in other areas.

Once the tutorial is done, the real mission is initiated. The player must utilise a CLAW unit, several Sentry Turrets and several JSOC units to defend three priority positions: A - the Communations Satelite, B - the power transformer and C - the cooling tower, all of which power the base shield doors that prevent the enemy from gaining access to the interior of the facility. The player must hold off the enemy SDC reinforcements for 10 minutes in order to complete the mission.

At any point in time, if two out of three of the priority positions are taken out by the enemy, the shield doors will open the enemies will gain access to the facility interior. The player is now tasked with defending Point D, the network server, from being hacked by enemy troops.

After 10 minutes, if the player manages to hold off the SDC forces from attacking the objectives, the primary objective is complete. The player must eliminate the remaining SDC forces in order to finish the mission.