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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 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 Campaign for North Africa (1978) Canadian Civil War (1977) Caporetto, 1917 (The Great War in the East quadrigame, 1978) Cauldron: Battle of Gazala, May 1942 (North Africa quadrigame, 1976) Cedar Mountain: The Prelude to Bull Run (S&T #86, 1981) Celles (Battles for the Ardennes quadrigame, 1978) Cemetery Hill (Blue & Gray quadrigame, 1975)
Campaign for North Africa was an ultra-detailed and virtually unplayable game, covering the entire North African campaign down to the level of individual fighter pilot ratings and supply trucks. At the other end of the spectrum, SPI created a new series of smaller games called 'folio' games, often created in groups of four and sold both ...
The game is set during the Second World War, covering ten days of Operation Market-Garden, from 17 to 26 September 1944, with two hours per turn. War in the Pacific: SPI: 1978 3,200 6 A simulation game of the War in the Pacific with 7 maps. [6] The Campaign for North Africa: SPI 1979 1,600 1,000 A game about the North African campaign of World ...
El Alamein is a two-player game in which one player controls the Allies, and the other player controls the Axis. The game uses the "Kursk" game system, first developed for Kursk: Operation Zitadelle (1971), [2] a traditional "I Go, You Go" alternating turn system for movement and combat: Initial Movement Phase; Combat Phase; Mechanized Movement ...
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One of these was Four Battles in North Africa, which was released in 1976 with graphic design by Redmond A. Simonsen. The game debuted at #2 on SPI's Top Ten Bestseller List the month it was released, but fell off the list after only four months. [3] Each of the games was also released individually as a "folio game" (packaged in a cardstock folio).