Afrika Korps (game)

Afrika Korps (game)

"Afrika Korps" is a two-player wargame published by the Avalon Hill Game Company in 1964 and then re-released in 1965 and 1977. Played on a mapboard depicting the northern coastline of Africa, the game follows Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps and their Italian allies as they fought back-and-forth campaigns against British forces in World War II.

The game uses small cardboard counters and the then newly popular hex-based movement system initially pioneered by Avalon Hill's D-Day in 1961. The mapboard's hexes simulate terrain roughly ten to fifteen kilometers (six to nine miles) across, and the represented military units vary from regiment up to division size. The game's system emphasizes the importance of supply, particularly the variability of Afrika Korps supply and reinforcements.

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References

* Jon Freeman, "The Complete Book of Wargames" (Simon & Schuster, 1980), pp. 167-168


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