This city has a way of making life hard on girls who think they can take it on by themselves. 
- — Batgirl
Batman: Gotham Knights #56 is an issue of the series Batman: Gotham Knights (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 2004. It was published on August 18, 2004.
Synopsis for "War Games: Act 1, Part 4 of 8: Rules of Engagement"
On the rooftops of Gotham, a mysterious man offers Hush to join his ranks in the upcoming gang war, but Hush refuses. He has teamed up with Prometheus and has his own agenda.
Penguin holds an auction for guns and metahumans among the Gotham Organized Crime. Meanwhile, Nightwing retrieves some of the stolen weapons by Penguin, however, he and Oracle are not handling the situation properly. Batman stops their fight and sends Batgirl to talk with Tarantula and tell her to join Orpheus' gang.
At that moment, The Odessa mob discusses a merger and Alexandra Kosov kills one of her most loyal henchman for disagreeing with her.
Batgirl arrives on the turf of the Latino Unified Gangs and they try to run her off, but she easily deal with them until Tarantula joins the fight. She takes the fight away from her people before pausing to listen to Batgirl's offer, which she refuses.
Alexandra Kosov's gang teams with Saunders to take on Scarface. Saunders prepares his gang to strike, but soon he discovers that he has been double crossed and Scarface's gang wipes Saunder's people out.
Penguin unsuccessfully tries to hire some additional muscle and Hush refuses his proposal as well. Penguin tries to convince him to join by teasing him with Riddler's location, but Hush forces Penguin to tell the truth about it. Penguin doesn't really know Riddler's location and Hush warns Penguin about lying to him.
The Odessa mob and their leader Alexandra, join Scarface's gang and hatch a plan to attack the next big crime boss in Gotham, Henry Aquista by targetting his daughter Darla.
Appearing in "War Games: Act 1, Part 4 of 8: Rules of Engagement"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Black Mask (unrevealed)
- Gotham Organized Crime
- Burnley Town Massive (Destroyed)
- Saunders (Single appearance; dies)
- Escabedo Cartel
- Diego Escabedo
- Henry Aquista
- Latino Unified Gang
- Odessa Mob
- Alexandra Kosov
- Sergei (Single appearance; dies)
- The Ventriloquist
- Burnley Town Massive (Destroyed)
- Hush
- The Penguin
Other Characters:
- Darla Aquista (In a photograph only)
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Notes
- This issue is reprinted in Batman: War Games, Act One - Outbreak and Batman: War Games Vol. 1.
- This issue is part of the War Games crossover. It takes place between Nightwing (Volume 2) #96 and Robin (Volume 2) #129.
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 The events from this issue or series are related to Batman: War Games, a massive Batman Title crossover involving a massive conflict between the different factions of Gotham Organized Crime, culminating in the rise to power of Black Mask. This template will automatically categorize articles that include it into the War Games Crossover category. Act One: Outbreak
Batman: The 12-Cent Adventure #1 • Detective Comics #797 • Legends of the Dark Knight #182 • Nightwing #96 • Gotham Knights #56 • Robin #129 • Batgirl #55 • Catwoman #34 • Batman #631 Act Two: Tides
Act Three: Endgame
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