Games lengthy and historical: thoughts after "The Campaign for North Africa"
Imagine signing up, along with 9 friends, to play a game which will could take 10 years to complete — and those years dealing with quirky, complex rules and finicky calculations. That is what Richard Berg’s 1979 WWII board wargame published by SPI, “The Campaign for North Africa: The Desert War 1940–43”, demands — as I learned from Luke Winkie’s article The Notorious Board Game That Takes 1,500 Hours To Complete. ...