Afrika Korps is a two-player wargame published by the
Avalon Hill Game CompanyAvalon Hill was a game company that specialized in wargames and strategic board games. Their logo contained their initials "AH", and it was often referred to by this abbreviation. It also published the occasional miniature wargaming rules, role-playing game, and had a popular line of sports...
in 1963 and then re-released in 1965 and 1977. Played on a mapboard depicting the northern coastline of
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, the game follows
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's
Afrika KorpsThe German Afrika Korps was the German expeditionary force in Libya and Tunisia during the North African Campaign of World War II...
and their
ItalianItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
allies as they fought back-and-forth campaigns against
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forces in
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The game uses small cardboard counters and the then newly popular hex-based movement system initially pioneered by Avalon Hill's
D-DayD-Day is a board wargame published by Avalon Hill first in 1961 and later re-released in 1965, 1971, 1977 and 1991. The title references the Normandy Landings in France on 6 June 1944, but it is actually about the campaign to liberate France in World War II.An operational/strategic simulation of...
in 1961.
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Afrika Korps is a two-player wargame published by the
Avalon Hill Game CompanyAvalon Hill was a game company that specialized in wargames and strategic board games. Their logo contained their initials "AH", and it was often referred to by this abbreviation. It also published the occasional miniature wargaming rules, role-playing game, and had a popular line of sports...
in 1963 and then re-released in 1965 and 1977. Played on a mapboard depicting the northern coastline of
AfricaAfrica is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area. With a billion people in 61 territories, it accounts for about 14.8% of the...
, the game follows
Erwin RommelErwin Johannes Eugen Rommel , was perhaps the most famous German Field Marshal of World War II....
's
Afrika KorpsThe German Afrika Korps was the German expeditionary force in Libya and Tunisia during the North African Campaign of World War II...
and their
ItalianItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
allies as they fought back-and-forth campaigns against
BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
forces in
World War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
.
The game uses small cardboard counters and the then newly popular hex-based movement system initially pioneered by Avalon Hill's
D-DayD-Day is a board wargame published by Avalon Hill first in 1961 and later re-released in 1965, 1971, 1977 and 1991. The title references the Normandy Landings in France on 6 June 1944, but it is actually about the campaign to liberate France in World War II.An operational/strategic simulation of...
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
regimentA regiment is a military unit, composed of variable numbers of battalions, commanded by a Colonel. A regiment can be broken into two distinct categories, one being an administrative unit which is responsible for non-operational management of battalions , while the other being a deployable combat...
up to
divisionA division is a large military unit or formation usually consisting of between ten to thirty thousand soldiers. In most armies, a division is composed of several regiments or brigades, and in turn several divisions make up a corps...
size. The game's system emphasizes the importance of supply, particularly the variability of Afrika Korps supply and reinforcements.