About War With A Mate
What are we doing ?
Join Andy and James as they play an unfinishable board game to completion, or die trying.
From the first 14 episodes figuring out how to play, followed by their near 100-episode practice run of 6 Turns, the guys are eyeing up the full 111-Turn game that will take them maybe the rest of their mortal lives. With weekly doses of game recap, listener mail, Andy's History Corner and tangent-friendly "Common Ground" segments, this playthrough is only achievable for the Subtle, Humble and Brave.
SPI's The Campaign For North Africa is a comically complicated board game that feels like a practical joke. Published in 1978, with no evidenced completions of the 111-Turn game, this is a behemoth board game like no other.
Learning the ropes - Ep 1 - 14
Practice Turn One - Ep 15 - 37
Practice Turns Two to Six - Ep 38 - Present
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About War With A Mate
The Game
The Grumbling
The Game
The Campaign for North Africa is an insanely granular and detailed WWII board game, which chronicles the North African campaign across 1940-1943. The game has gained infamy for being too drawn out and tedious to play, and for its myriad of complicated rules. A 10ft map. 1,600 game pieces. Five rulebooks. 1,500 hours playtime. Recommended 10 players (or two idiots if you’re running short)
The Guys
The Grumbling
The Game
After being friends for about 10 years, it’s hard to come up with new topics of conversation, so we thought there’s no better way to bond than in the sweet catharsis of boredom. We have absolutely no right to think we can do this - don’t let our moxie fool you otherwise.
The Grumbling
The Grumbling
The Grumbling
The way we plan on beating this game is being fuelled by the most powerful force to grace our species; stubbornness. By recording a weekly companion podcast, quitting simply isn’t an option - we couldn’t bare the ridicule. So, forgive us if we use you as an accountability tool.