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Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps, released as Afrika Korps vs. Desert Rats outside the UK and U.S., is a real-time tactics game that is based on the North African campaign of World War II. The single player missions are playable as the German Afrika Korps or the British Desert Rats. There is also an option for online multiplayer.
The game starts with the British offensive in North Africa against the numerically superior Italian army in September 1940, and lasts until December 1942. 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 African Campaign is a board wargame published by the Australian game company Jedko Games in 1973 that simulates the North African Campaign during World War II.The game design was based on Avalon Hill's popular wargame Afrika Korps, but Avalon Hill recognized some improvements had been made to the game, and became the North American distributor of Jedko games including this one.
Jay Selover reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "That is the essence of Rommel: good scenarios, good development, good system." [1]Brian Walker reviewed Panzer Battles and Rommel: Battles for North Africa for Games International magazine, and gave them both a rating of 8 out of 10, and stated that "Despite their hard core titles, there is no reason why either of these ...
Nethercot questioned the historical accuracy of the game, saying, "In my view, the game requires revision to give it a greater degree of historical realism, and to bring it up to date with the latest developments in the field of simulation game design." He concluded, "Even so, Afrika Korps is an enjoyable and entertaining game." [4]
The faults, he says, are mainly caused by the game publishers' and guide publishers' haste to get their products on to the market; [5] "[previously] strategy guides were published after a game was released so that they could be accurate, even to the point of including information changes from late game 'patch' releases.
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).
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