Anyone ever played the game “Campaign for North Africa”? It takes 1500 hours

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The Campaign for North Africa (CNA), subtitled "The Desert War, 1940–43", is a strategic board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1978 that simulates the entire North African Campaign of World War II. It is considered one of the most complex wargames ever published, with ten recommended players and an estimated total playtime of 1,500 hours. The game could not be fully playtested before release and no one is believed to have ever completed a full game.

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The Campaign for North Africa has been called the longest board game ever produced, with estimates that a full game would take 1,500 hours to complete.[1][2] Reviewer Luke Winkie pointed out that "If you and your group meets for three hours at a time, twice a month, you’d wrap up the campaign in about 20 years."[3] It has also been called the most complex wargame ever designed,[4][2] with the commonly cited example (noted in SPI's advertising) that Italian troops require additional water supplies to prepare pasta.[5] The map board alone is 9.5 ft (3 m) long.

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