The Campaign for North Africa is an extremely complex board wargame designed by Richard Berg and published by Simulations Publications Inc. in 1979, simulating the entire World War II desert campaign in North Africa from 1940 to 1943. The game is renowned in the hobby for its enormous scale and granularity, tracking individual battalions and even the fuel and water consumption of specific vehicle types, with a rulebook running to hundreds of pages and a playtime historically estimated in the hundreds of hours for a full campaign game. Its scope required players to manage logistics in extraordinary detail, including separate rules for Italian versus German supply arrangements and the different water needs of various nationalities troops. Because of its length and complexity, The Campaign for North Africa is frequently cited as one of the most demanding board wargames ever published and is more often discussed as a design landmark than actually played to completion.
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The Campaign for North Africa (CNA), subtitled The Desert War, 1940-43, is a strategic board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1978 that simulates the entire North African campaign of World War II. It is considered one of the most complex wargames ever published, with ten recommended players and an estimated total playtime of 1,500 hours.
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The Campaign for North Africa (CNA), subtitled The Desert War, 1940-43, is a strategic board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1978 that simulates the entire North African campaign of World War II.
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