i feel like don’t appreciate how much of a triumph of game design shitposting Campaign for North Africa is. It’s not only the grandfather of projects like The UNO Amalgam Chemicards, 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel, EXTREME Monopoly, but surpasses them on sheer scale and effort.
I feel like people forget that Campaign for North Africa was in fact a work of satire, and not an earnest attempt to capture the complexities of warfare. Which makes its existence make more and less sense at the same time. Because like. I cannot stress this enough this game is from 1978?!? And is a genuinely staggering amount of rules and system design? Like. imagine sitting down in 1978, pre internet, and going “hmmm today I will commit to spending the next several months making the Evil Torture Wargame” and then getting it published. It’s deranged
