North Africa Operation Compass Wargame 

We are doing east Africa as a tester before moving onto the big one North Africa ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iNskn-wAyqs.html

Tbf it does have one of the longest wargames to play ever made dedicated: The Campaign for North Africa. An estimated completion time of 1500 hours and recommended 10 players with a 3m map board. It goes into ridiculously complex detail like Italian troops using more water because they cook pasta and every unit losing 3% of their fuel a turn due to evaporation(except the British who lose 7% a turn to represent the poorer storage method of oil drums in comparison to the Jerry can used by the Italians and Germans)

Haha yes, I know of that one. But thats not a game, it's a life style.

@@deeznoots6241 Which is, if anything, perhaps a bit too much representation.

Well we do love funny hats around here. That’s for sure…

It also was really important in the post Pearl Harbor war as it saw the first deployment of Americans in the European theater

More modern you say? You’ll very much enjoy our NEXT wargame then!

​@@LittleWarsTV oh you teases!

You’ll probably get so see them in the 3rd El Alamein episode.

Did you spot the Kiwi Bren Carriers in some of the intro video? G'day from across the Tasman

TBF, the British did not know that the Italian 11/39s were coming at Gabr al Ahmar. These early battles are fascinating, some great scenarios in both the Too Fat Lardy books and Chadwick's "Benghazi Handicap", possibly the source for the two presented here.

Interested to know more…as very tempted by Sam’s rules set Rommel…but only tried a small game so far.

@@gavinpearson74 Similiar to what LWTV did with the Normandy game, we played with microarmor (1:285) with units mounted on 2” by 1.5@ bases. Our grid squares are 100mm. We expanded the desert scale closer to 2km per square to allow for representing a large area from just west of Bardia to the eastern defenses of Tobruk. Artillery ranges were adjusted to the new scale but we preserved the stacking and each unit was representing a reinforced company on the table. We figured the unique desert environment made thinner formations and more extended frontages supportable at the increased ground scale. This also allowed us to represent almost the entire Africa Korps and the 8th army involved in Crusader on a 10’ x 6’ table. Turn scale was also condensed to 12 turns per day with a night turn following. The Rommel rules were ideal for simply representing the free for all that ensued-very much in line with WWII western desert warfare. With formations fighting to pin and encircle each other we very much had a naval battle on land as you might expect.

Something about it always captures the imagination. There’s a kind of odd romanticism of the desert war that lingers

Except it was the British Empire, not the Commonwealth.

@@grahamtravers4522 The Commonwealth has been called the Commonwealth since 1926 so he’s correct

A great set of rules for bigger battles. I highly recommend it