The ridiculously complex Campaign for North Africa boasts 1,500 hours and recommends you play with 10 people - these gamers aim to finish it with two.

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    20 months and 88 episodes after this folly began, they are finally done with the six-turn practice scenario, and are ready for the entire 111-turn war.

    They will die before the game is done. It will fall to their children to continue the tradition of the fathers. Their children will watch on and dream of an end to the war.

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      At that rate, the game should only take just under 31 years to complete, making it 10 times longer than the actual campaign the game is based on.

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      Their children will throw away that shit. Games shouldn’t become torture devices.

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        Their children will struggle against their opponents children. Families locked in a bitter struggle generation after generation