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The Campaign for North Africa has been called the longest board game ever produced, with estimates that a full game would take 1,500 hours to complete. [1] [2] Reviewer Luke Winkie pointed out that "If you and your group meets for three hours at a time, twice a month, you’d wrap up the campaign in about 20 years."
The entire campaign takes 80 turns, about 15–25 hours of gameplay. The game includes four shorter scenarios [1] that can be completed in a few hours. [2] The game comes with a 22" x 34" paper map of North Africa from El Agheila to El Alamein, an 8-page rulebook, and a cardstock sheet of 252 counters. [3]
The North African campaign of World War II took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943, fought between the Allies and the Axis Powers.It included campaigns in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts (Western Desert campaign, Desert War), in Morocco and Algeria (Operation Torch), and in Tunisia (Tunisia campaign).
16 June: The first tank battle of the North African campaign takes place, the "Engagement at Nezuet Ghirba" [3] July 1940: British navy shells French warships in the port of Oran to keep them out of German hands; 13 September: Italian forces invade Egypt from Libya; 16 September: Italian forces establish front east of Sidi Barrani; 9 December:
The population density of Africa as of 2000. North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
An official campaign to conquer North Africa began in 663, and the Arabs soon controlled most major cities in Libya. Tripoli fell again in 666 AD, and this time the Muslims ensured their control of their new lands by not immediately retreating to Egypt after the conquest.
Contemporary political map of North Africa. The history of North Africa has been divided into its prehistory, its classical period, the arrival and spread of Islam, the colonial period, and finally the post-independence era, in which the current nations were formed. The region has been influenced by many diverse cultures.
The Muslim conquest of the Maghreb (Arabic: فَتْحُ اَلْمَغْرِب, romanized: Fath al-Maghrib, lit. 'Conquest of the West') or Arab conquest of North Africa by the Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates commenced in 647 and concluded in 709, when the Byzantine Empire lost its last remaining strongholds to Caliph Al-Walid I.