Check out my link and use code WP20OFF to save $20 on your very own FlexiSpot 2-in-1 Walking Treadmill. Hurry-this limited-time offer won't last! bit.ly/3COJcYM Say it with me kids: Campaign For North Africa, just a week away!
Walking treadmill, as opposed to a sitting treadmill? Marketing dropped the ball on that one because a walking treadmill is just strolling about, nothing more required.
I mean, hel ye get that bag, but at the same time, this one feels extremely out of left field, and it feels like a company that's just trying to upsell a basic treadmill.
My grandfather started a game of Campaign For North Africa, my father continued it, and I have been carrying it on, and my bloodline will keep it going for decades until it is done. We just finished picking our army.
They put so much effort into emphasizing that the train game was set in 1870 but they just went and used a mid-20th century diesel locomotive for all the imagery
It is funny but not entirely an incorrect image. The 18xx games track (no pun intended) railroad and train technology from the title year to the mid-twentieth century, almost always ending with the diesel train.
Fun diplomacy fact, it probably has the record for longest game ever played to completion, do to webDiplomacy World Cup Final not thinking they needed a max length since they could have multi day long phases to allow everyone time to submit orders. And then Italy and Russia realize that they both had a good chance to win the whole thing (Italy if it was a draw and Russia if they won if memory serves). The game lasted over 100 years in game (which is between 200 and 500 unique phases), and lasted three and a haft years irl because of these two facts and a wild chain of events in game.
Actually, that'd be a fun idea: board games that take up the most physical space! Some people might joke about the Twister mat, but hey, many of the war games in this video are also played on table-sized mats!
Someone commented about "a sequel covering the widest board games," but I actually would love a video where you talk about board games that have the biggest boards or the most pieces. Not necessarily long to play, but long to set up. Like Mousetrap- I think that's the most popular board game with the largest amount of individual pieces.
I've always imagined playing Monopoly where all the different editions are used at once, corners overlapping. There would be new mechanics involving exchange rates and international law (i.e. you could avoid going to jail by ending up on a different board).
@otaking3582 you typed this message into a magical machine that has the totality of human knowledge at your fingertips. Simply search his name into the app you are currently using and you will find him 💜
At my college, theres a group of 8 students playing the campaign for north africa in the board game club. Thing is, every single one of them was an alumni but kept coming back to play it. I've graduated now, and they were still playing when I left. I have no idea how far in they are or how long it'll take for them to finally finish.
Finally, original Europa Universalis mentioned! As a fun fact, there is an insane 9-player version that adds Poland and Prussia as potential players made by fans, among other things.
I love the fact the longest board game video has to be split into two parts because it would be too long otherwise. Also, the 8 hours of Le Mans game is honestly a really creative way to implement the Le Mans action into board game form, but imagine having to suddenly take a Number 1 halfway through your shift. You'd either have to throw away months of planning and piss off your teammates, or endure the longest 2 hours of your life.
When I heard EU I was actually shocked that the board game version exists since my brain automatically thought of the Paradox spreadsheet simulator I mean grand strategy game Turns out it's an adaptation of the board game
I mod Hearts of Iron 4 (another game made by the people behind the Europa Universalis video games), so understand of the weight of me saying that Europa Universalis 4's complexity scares me
For anyone interested in getting into 18xx games: They are ALL obtuse and weird games with a mile high learning curve, but once you learn one you can learn any other since they're all built on the same framework. So you may as well start with the original, 1830.
I got tapped to participate in a sesh thinking 5 hours was the high end, and we ended up taking 6 but I had a good time so I volunteered again. Little did I know the first 18xx I played was one for babies and the 2nd game would be a real one which took 10 hours. Completely dumpstered nowhere near winning both times of course. Never again lol.
I like how Advanced Third Reich a game which tries to accurately represent *all* of world war 2, takes less time than the Civil war game you mentioned. It has diplomacy, conflict and literally over 100 pages of rules. It takes about 30 hours to realistically finish but oh boy it actually finishes.
So I ended up winning the only game of American Megafauna I ever played by being a mammal who was an omnivore. Turns out there are no rules against cannibalism so my species just kinda spread across the world, eating itself when it didn't have enough other food.
my favorate part in American Megafauna is the part where you evolve enough to go to space and go to the center of the galaxy to get power to spread life through the cosmos!
The RUclipsr Valefisk is allegedly running a CNA game with his friends. It is possible that he'll be one of the first people to complete the game in the coming years.
For those that want to play it, the 8 hours of Le Mans game actually does have a comparable board game released. It’s called “Heat: Pedal to the Metal” it uses the gear change, lane speeds, and airflow featured in Le Mans, but not the 8 hour runtime and the, can’t pause the game mechanic.
Should have also mentioned that Europa Universalis got a video game adaptation in 2000 by Paradox interactive. They are currently at EUIV with new DLC and updates coming out to this day.
It's like finding out that Mega Man 1 with the bad box art actually turned into like six different mostly completed subseries of an iconic franchise in the span of 20 years
It's coming full circle and Paradox Interactive recently made a brand new Europa Universalis board game. Think of it as a board game adaptation of a video game adaptation of a board game.
It’s great because the more my parents yell at my sister, the larger chance she gets disowned and I get the will. So creating arguments and keeping them going is useful.
Ooh, this is a good idea. I’ve been wanting to use my brother’s room to overwinter lemon trees for a while now… 🤔 (It’s the only room with a south facing window, I clearly need it more than he does)
Freedom in the Galaxy enjoyer here. I first learned about the game after playing the fantastic game Rebellion, which to my surprise takes the whole thing full circle. Rebellion is a sleeker, stripped down, and far more approachable version of FitG, but what's shocking is that Freedom in the Galaxy was a blatant bootleg star wars game, and then it got re-implemented as an ACTUAL star wars game. I've played a total of 2 games of it, and I can say without question that Freedom in the Galaxy is just a bigger, more challenging version of Rebellion. So if anyone feels daunted by the game, get yourself a copy of rebellion, play it until it gets stale, then try the OG, you will not be dissapointed.
I adore Star Wars: Rebellion, but struggled to get into Freedom in the Galaxy when I was younger as my family owned the game. Thanks for making the comparison, as I'll give Freedom in the Galaxy another shot when I visit them for the holidays.
As a man who owns over 100 wargames and have played most solo i say you are absolutely correct in the insane amount of detail makes these games slow as hell, but damn i just love a great wargame.
The longest and most complex game I've ever played is a game called U-Boot. It's a cooperative game where you and up to 3 other players have to manage a World War II-era German U-boat. I'm not kidding when I say it's complex. Here's a list of everything that would have to be managed that I can remember off the top of my head: the direction of the sub (which you need to do ACTUAL TRIGONOMETRY if you want to play well), engine speed, the depth of the ship, torpedo cannons, 2 turret cannons on top, the parascope, repairs for everything (if the hull is breached, you have to play a literal timed jigsaw puzzle), communications with the authority on land, crew morale, and food preparation. I wouldn't be surprised if it took just as much skill to optimally play this game as it would to control a real U-boat. Over time, you have to take down allied ships over multiple campaigns (I say multiple campaigns, but each campaign takes a long time) where the allies slowly upgrade their ships and strategies over time like in the real war. Also, I said 4 players could play and they can take certain responsibilities such as navigation, command, weapons, or engineering. However, if you're a total madman, you can play single-player and take all of the responsibilities! It's a complicated game that my game group couldn't wrap our head around enough to complete more than 1 scenario.
I still find it funny rhat Campaign for North Africa The Desert War 1940-43 takes longer to play than the actual desert war took place, and longer than even ww2. Its not even real time strategy; its slow mo
I mean, you're doing the work of every field marshal involved and then some. It kind of reminds me of HoI4's black ice mod just even less user friendly.
I 100% thought the "Crim & Sons Paving" hat was some kind of a reference to a British comedy show I never heard of. Like Trotters Independent Trading but more obscure.
@@kamsandwich "Crim" is a slang term for criminal over there and knowing that the name totally comes off like the name of a dodgy company in a comedy sketch. 🤣 The real question is if they'll just make your money disappear, or if they can make other... problems... disappear.
The 8 hours of Le Mans game is a shocker, I am a huge car nerd and I never knew about it... Also, the model cars at 11:06 are accurate cars that would race in Le Mans, they look great!!
I will never know why youtube started recommending me your videos, as I do not really play board games. But I'm so glad it did because your videos are so stupendously entertaining. I love them so much thank you Mr Sandwich
I was not expecting someone to mention the Europa Universalis board game again on youtube. I've wanted to play it ever since I saw a review of it on youtube many years ago (partly because of the epic scale, partly because of my love of the computer game version). Thanks for giving some other suggestions for game to trick my friends into playing.
18xx games are actually pretty straight forward, and don't have that many rules, especially compared to wargames. They do take a while to play, but are shorter than shown here if you play with poker chips instead of paper money, which most people do.
My father loved Freedom In The Galaxy as a kid. He told me that he combined it with Panzer Leader to simulate the ground battles as well as an Atari tank game. A bit much for a board game, but he was ahead of the curb when computer games got started.
Richard H. Berg was of the "if-the-customer-wants-chrome-give-it-to-em-in-spades" school of wargame design. He would "vomit" on the porch with the full expectation that the cat would lick it up and he was, by-and-large, correct.
As a reptile, whenever a single game of mammalian Candy Land just get too exciting and I feel the instinctive need to have it continue into infinity my houserule is simply to flip all the cards back over into their starting position and play again with the same player order. I call it Eternal Return.
Absolutely cannot wait to send this video to my mom. Recently, she and I discussed establishing custom rules for the next time we play "Monopoly," because she thinks the game is way too long. Wait till she gets a load out of what's featured in this vid, lmao 😂
I played 1 game of gloomhaven years and years ago and walked away asking all of my friends "So... it's a video game that you play on paper? Why are we not playing DnD?"
Agreed, I have a strict rule for "would this be better as a video game ?" which Gloomhaven absolutely fails. In fact, only a couple of the games shown in this video might pass that rule. Europa Universalis being the most obvious example, as the video game series has completely eclipsed the board game...
My dad, brother, and I tried to play Freedom of the Galaxy, but it is a do your taxes simulator for the Empire player and the pray you don’t get killed by the planetary defense system for the Rebel player.
11:10 in real life Le Mans drivers _are_ allowed to drink (using a dedicated straw in their car), so the Eight Hours of LeMans not letting you drink seems unessecarily mean
I love the idea of these long games. I want so badly to plan out an entire weekend of playing these kinds of games, with the maximum player counts. I'd even have the whole weekend fully catered. I also think it would be fun to have a Twitch channel dedicated to playing these super long games out to completion for charity (like those Desert Bus Sim guys do.) Anyway, I look forward to Campaign for North Africa winning this contest again. In the mean time, I'm gonna look into that Not Star Wars game on TTS.
Personally I think Campaign for North Africa should be disqualified from this based on how we don't actually know the length time for the game since as far as I know no one has ever actually finished a game of that monstrosity.
When you got to the war board games with tiles, I was certain you were going to reference more Avalon Hill games. It's great to see people's reaction when asking someone if they'd like to play Rise and Decline of the Third Reich
OMG Kam.......I was having a really bad night man...... Was gunna do something stupid again and make a terrible mistake.........saw ur video and you know what.......I still got alot to live for even being sick........thanks bud❤.....Know u were just following schedule for putting up another hilarious insightful video about board games.....(like board james......just better in evey way )........it really helped me tonight bud.......You have no idea
thank you for getting me interested in playing american megafauna with my wife. Our next 10 hours shall be two girls arguing about what evolutionary monstorisity is goofier
Axis and Allies games between me and my dad usually lasted upwards of a week, and would inevitably have about twenty or so units in the Dutch East Indies and the Marshall Islands.
Europa Universalis: Price of Power is a newer version of the same concept and actually quite good. It is slightly shorter, but one grand campaign game with my friends still took almost 30 hours
If you aren't planning to cover it already, you should cover Empyrean Challenge, it's even more complex than Campaign for North Africa and players (which there are recommended to be 150 of) are recommended to use a spreadsheet program, which has been said to sometimes produce over 1,000 pages of results on a single turn.
The 18xx games track (no pun intended) railroad and train technology from the title year to the mid-twentieth century, almost always ending with the diesel train. It's a weird choice for the cover art but the game only starts in 1870.
There’s a board game called Diplomacy. The people I played it with used some sort of really stupid home brew rules where there is no limit on how many turns you have to play. The second time I and the other sane people in the room decided to collectively surrender, as it seemed the only option to actually be allowed to leave. We’d been there for 6 hours and there was no end in sight.
I love Twilight Imperium, truly amazing game, I only played it once becasue finding 6 people in my friend group who will say yes to a complex strategy game with minimum 8h play time was a bit too hard.
Had Freedom in the Galaxy. It was a fun game, except it was wildly unbalanced in favour of the Empire. Then Rebels have all the cool stuff, like Planetary Secrets to discover and "domino" rebellions where one success sending a planet into revolt can set off others elsewhere, leaving the empire scrambling to contain the damage. It takes a whole lot of work and luck to set up, though. A good revision would be to focus on the diplomatic game (including characters and running gun battles to keep things fun) and abstracting everything else. It would be a tough little simulation of insurgency/counter-insurgency. The system could be used for Vietnam, Occupied France...
I don't know if you can do anything with this info, but I remember playing an army of darkness game where you have a bunch of miniatures and play as either the deadites or the living, and you fight against each other. The deadites win if they get the necronomicon or if they kill the living and the living win if they kill the deadites or the sun comes up which takes 6 real life hours.
Digging up the sports board games, how long would a full 9-inning game of Strat-O-Matic run using no computer assistance for the rolls and using the most complicated ruleset? (On average, technically in a worst case Strat-O-Matic would be the longest board game ever, even beating Campaign for North Africa, thanks to the funny little quirk of baseball that technically, no game is ever guaranteed to end if both teams remain tied ad nauseum or if one team is just that incompetent and can not get 3 outs in an inning)
I love axis and allies, I used to play it monthly with a friend. We got the setup down to just 1 hour when working together and finished our games in roughly 6 hour sessions
This is fascinating! Everything about this is right up my alley. Also should I be mildly concerned for myself that I kind of want to give one of these a go.
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Say it with me kids: Campaign For North Africa, just a week away!
Campaign For North Africa, just a week away!
Walking treadmill, as opposed to a sitting treadmill? Marketing dropped the ball on that one because a walking treadmill is just strolling about, nothing more required.
I mean, hel ye get that bag, but at the same time, this one feels extremely out of left field, and it feels like a company that's just trying to upsell a basic treadmill.
Campaign for North Africa, just one full turn of Campaign for North Africa away
fun fact: if you increase ðe audio by about a kilobel, you can hear someþing in ðe walls
My grandfather started a game of Campaign For North Africa, my father continued it, and I have been carrying it on, and my bloodline will keep it going for decades until it is done. We just finished picking our army.
Except it's not the boardgame lol
@@kotzpenner /sigh, if only people could make the connections, eh?
Who are the others?
If you make a video on it I’ll watch it ❤
It took you 3 generations/a full generation cycle to pick your army??? Bru💀
They put so much effort into emphasizing that the train game was set in 1870 but they just went and used a mid-20th century diesel locomotive for all the imagery
Most autistic statement I've heard all day
It is funny but not entirely an incorrect image. The 18xx games track (no pun intended) railroad and train technology from the title year to the mid-twentieth century, almost always ending with the diesel train.
Fun diplomacy fact, it probably has the record for longest game ever played to completion, do to webDiplomacy World Cup Final not thinking they needed a max length since they could have multi day long phases to allow everyone time to submit orders.
And then Italy and Russia realize that they both had a good chance to win the whole thing (Italy if it was a draw and Russia if they won if memory serves).
The game lasted over 100 years in game (which is between 200 and 500 unique phases), and lasted three and a haft years irl because of these two facts and a wild chain of events in game.
I remember that being the first video I saw from the lads at DiploStrarts.
I wanna say the playlist is easily like 12 hours.
Looking forward to the sequel covering the widest board games
Actually, that'd be a fun idea: board games that take up the most physical space!
Some people might joke about the Twister mat, but hey, many of the war games in this video are also played on table-sized mats!
Nothing like a nice girthy board game
This is actually a good idea!
What about the tallest board games?
@@Seydaschu The Sim City TCG literally has a rule that states the maximum size of your city is whatever size your table is.
Someone commented about "a sequel covering the widest board games," but I actually would love a video where you talk about board games that have the biggest boards or the most pieces. Not necessarily long to play, but long to set up. Like Mousetrap- I think that's the most popular board game with the largest amount of individual pieces.
So a second CNA video
I've always imagined playing Monopoly where all the different editions are used at once, corners overlapping. There would be new mechanics involving exchange rates and international law (i.e. you could avoid going to jail by ending up on a different board).
@@otaking3582 valefisk has probably already made it
@@Drakid13Re3kt No idea who that is
@otaking3582 you typed this message into a magical machine that has the totality of human knowledge at your fingertips. Simply search his name into the app you are currently using and you will find him 💜
At my college, theres a group of 8 students playing the campaign for north africa in the board game club. Thing is, every single one of them was an alumni but kept coming back to play it. I've graduated now, and they were still playing when I left. I have no idea how far in they are or how long it'll take for them to finally finish.
You should go check in on them. become a spectator
The Campaign For North Africa is the closest us humans have gotten to recreating Sisyphus's boulder
@@jamesjoe2048 btw i'm serious. turn their game into a vlog. become the first documented finished campaign.
@@MakusinMeringuealso submit it to the any% speedrun
Wouldn't the fastest any% run of CNA just be a contest of who can set up and pack up the game board the fastest?
Finally, original Europa Universalis mentioned! As a fun fact, there is an insane 9-player version that adds Poland and Prussia as potential players made by fans, among other things.
I love the fact the longest board game video has to be split into two parts because it would be too long otherwise.
Also, the 8 hours of Le Mans game is honestly a really creative way to implement the Le Mans action into board game form, but imagine having to suddenly take a Number 1 halfway through your shift. You'd either have to throw away months of planning and piss off your teammates, or endure the longest 2 hours of your life.
Or just go right there
Do you mean a Number 2?
I prepared for this and have equipped a catheter.
Is peeing into a bottle or cup allowed? Technically you're not leaving...
Just one more step..
When I heard EU I was actually shocked that the board game version exists since my brain automatically thought of the Paradox spreadsheet simulator I mean grand strategy game
Turns out it's an adaptation of the board game
And they recently turned it back into a board game
@Town808 So a board game based on a video game based on a board game? That's wild!
I mod Hearts of Iron 4 (another game made by the people behind the Europa Universalis video games), so understand of the weight of me saying that Europa Universalis 4's complexity scares me
@ yes
@ As a person who plays both EU4 and HOI4, I beg to differ. EU4 is a bit complicated at times, but I’ll never understand HOI4 naval systems.
Dread it. Run from it. The Campaign for North Africa arrives all the same.
Eh we got a few years until it’s ready
Can we truly, truly escape it?
For anyone interested in getting into 18xx games:
They are ALL obtuse and weird games with a mile high learning curve, but once you learn one you can learn any other since they're all built on the same framework. So you may as well start with the original, 1830.
I got tapped to participate in a sesh thinking 5 hours was the high end, and we ended up taking 6 but I had a good time so I volunteered again.
Little did I know the first 18xx I played was one for babies and the 2nd game would be a real one which took 10 hours. Completely dumpstered nowhere near winning both times of course. Never again lol.
I like how Advanced Third Reich a game which tries to accurately represent *all* of world war 2, takes less time than the Civil war game you mentioned. It has diplomacy, conflict and literally over 100 pages of rules.
It takes about 30 hours to realistically finish but oh boy it actually finishes.
So I ended up winning the only game of American Megafauna I ever played by being a mammal who was an omnivore. Turns out there are no rules against cannibalism so my species just kinda spread across the world, eating itself when it didn't have enough other food.
Bears exist.
my favorate part in American Megafauna is the part where you evolve enough to go to space and go to the center of the galaxy to get power to spread life through the cosmos!
So... It's basically 'Spore: The boardgame'? That sounds genuinely amazing!
Full livestream of The Campaign for North Africa The Desert War 1940-43 when
oh hey meestertweester
Some twitch streamer should do that for a subathon
@@SuperBroy1 hey
The RUclipsr Valefisk is allegedly running a CNA game with his friends.
It is possible that he'll be one of the first people to complete the game in the coming years.
Just a week away
For those that want to play it, the 8 hours of Le Mans game actually does have a comparable board game released.
It’s called “Heat: Pedal to the Metal” it uses the gear change, lane speeds, and airflow featured in Le Mans, but not the 8 hour runtime and the, can’t pause the game mechanic.
There's alson Formula D, which might even be somewhat closer to Le Mans.
Should have also mentioned that Europa Universalis got a video game adaptation in 2000 by Paradox interactive. They are currently at EUIV with new DLC and updates coming out to this day.
EU 5 comes out next year as well!
It's like finding out that Mega Man 1 with the bad box art actually turned into like six different mostly completed subseries of an iconic franchise in the span of 20 years
Wait, EU was a board game?
So not only do I have Anbennar on my EUIV, I could do it or any D&D game setting using the EU board game too?!
It's coming full circle and Paradox Interactive recently made a brand new Europa Universalis board game. Think of it as a board game adaptation of a video game adaptation of a board game.
It’s great because the more my parents yell at my sister, the larger chance she gets disowned and I get the will. So creating arguments and keeping them going is useful.
I really hope you're joking.
@gotgunpowder its true, im the sister
Ooh, this is a good idea. I’ve been wanting to use my brother’s room to overwinter lemon trees for a while now… 🤔
(It’s the only room with a south facing window, I clearly need it more than he does)
???
Good luck to ya bud!
It took two and a half years but Kam finally fulfilled his promise of more Richard Berg centered content.
Ka,: "The technical term for this is: Weak Sauce."
Me: "I was going to say 'episodic,' and that's why I'm not the one with the youtube channel."
The 2014 Diplomacy World Cup was cancelled because the 2012 finals were still going on.
Bullcrap!
Source?
@@odettefahy4568 there was an article on PurplePawn released in February 2016 that was about the 2012 WebDiplomacy World Cup finally coming to an end.
@@odettefahy4568 just google it yourself, dude. I just did, took 3 seconds
Richard Berg now cementing himself in channel lore. One day he too will be featured as a gag in a sponsor segment.
the 24 hours of lemons is an ENTIRELY different race than the 24 heures du mans
At least there's a lemon party at the end
Freedom in the Galaxy enjoyer here. I first learned about the game after playing the fantastic game Rebellion, which to my surprise takes the whole thing full circle. Rebellion is a sleeker, stripped down, and far more approachable version of FitG, but what's shocking is that Freedom in the Galaxy was a blatant bootleg star wars game, and then it got re-implemented as an ACTUAL star wars game. I've played a total of 2 games of it, and I can say without question that Freedom in the Galaxy is just a bigger, more challenging version of Rebellion. So if anyone feels daunted by the game, get yourself a copy of rebellion, play it until it gets stale, then try the OG, you will not be dissapointed.
I adore Star Wars: Rebellion, but struggled to get into Freedom in the Galaxy when I was younger as my family owned the game. Thanks for making the comparison, as I'll give Freedom in the Galaxy another shot when I visit them for the holidays.
As a man who owns over 100 wargames and have played most solo i say you are absolutely correct in the insane amount of detail makes these games slow as hell, but damn i just love a great wargame.
You are an outlier and should not be counted
Today i learned the Europa Universalis Computer Strategy games started as a board game.
The longest and most complex game I've ever played is a game called U-Boot. It's a cooperative game where you and up to 3 other players have to manage a World War II-era German U-boat. I'm not kidding when I say it's complex.
Here's a list of everything that would have to be managed that I can remember off the top of my head: the direction of the sub (which you need to do ACTUAL TRIGONOMETRY if you want to play well), engine speed, the depth of the ship, torpedo cannons, 2 turret cannons on top, the parascope, repairs for everything (if the hull is breached, you have to play a literal timed jigsaw puzzle), communications with the authority on land, crew morale, and food preparation. I wouldn't be surprised if it took just as much skill to optimally play this game as it would to control a real U-boat.
Over time, you have to take down allied ships over multiple campaigns (I say multiple campaigns, but each campaign takes a long time) where the allies slowly upgrade their ships and strategies over time like in the real war. Also, I said 4 players could play and they can take certain responsibilities such as navigation, command, weapons, or engineering. However, if you're a total madman, you can play single-player and take all of the responsibilities! It's a complicated game that my game group couldn't wrap our head around enough to complete more than 1 scenario.
That sounds awesome to play ngl
Btw nice tragic clown
Well, I’m sunk.
I still find it funny rhat Campaign for North Africa The Desert War 1940-43 takes longer to play than the actual desert war took place, and longer than even ww2. Its not even real time strategy; its slow mo
I mean, you're doing the work of every field marshal involved and then some. It kind of reminds me of HoI4's black ice mod just even less user friendly.
@@GrimdarkCrusader20th Ah, so it's user-hostile.
I 100% thought the "Crim & Sons Paving" hat was some kind of a reference to a British comedy show I never heard of. Like Trotters Independent Trading but more obscure.
I've got to say that is a new one!
@@kamsandwich "Crim" is a slang term for criminal over there and knowing that the name totally comes off like the name of a dodgy company in a comedy sketch. 🤣
The real question is if they'll just make your money disappear, or if they can make other... problems... disappear.
The 8 hours of Le Mans game is a shocker, I am a huge car nerd and I never knew about it... Also, the model cars at 11:06 are accurate cars that would race in Le Mans, they look great!!
I will never know why youtube started recommending me your videos, as I do not really play board games. But I'm so glad it did because your videos are so stupendously entertaining. I love them so much thank you Mr Sandwich
I was not expecting someone to mention the Europa Universalis board game again on youtube. I've wanted to play it ever since I saw a review of it on youtube many years ago (partly because of the epic scale, partly because of my love of the computer game version). Thanks for giving some other suggestions for game to trick my friends into playing.
13:13 OLLIE GAYTOR IS APART OF STARWARS YOOOOOO
he returned when we needed him most... the hero we don't deserve
@@Jaminux he’s gotta turn the whole universe into his gay paradise, he must serve and slay so no straight city can exist ever again
@@Strawberry_Cubes taking over the entire universe just to eradicate a city goes hard, i'm all in
18xx games are actually pretty straight forward, and don't have that many rules, especially compared to wargames. They do take a while to play, but are shorter than shown here if you play with poker chips instead of paper money, which most people do.
Your delivery just keeps getting better. Your back to back punchlines often have me reeling. Keep it going, Kam.
I wasn't expecting multiple back-to-back SWBFII references, but I am here for it.
My father loved Freedom In The Galaxy as a kid. He told me that he combined it with Panzer Leader to simulate the ground battles as well as an Atari tank game. A bit much for a board game, but he was ahead of the curb when computer games got started.
The dirty secret from this video is that Kam Sandwich is secretly a stealthy wargamer in disguise.
Richard H. Berg was of the "if-the-customer-wants-chrome-give-it-to-em-in-spades" school of wargame design. He would "vomit" on the porch with the full expectation that the cat would lick it up and he was, by-and-large, correct.
You've been killing it with the videos, my man. Keep up the hard work!
Ultima TTS board game stream when
As a reptile, whenever a single game of mammalian Candy Land just get too exciting and I feel the instinctive need to have it continue into infinity my houserule is simply to flip all the cards back over into their starting position and play again with the same player order. I call it Eternal Return.
Cheese
You better do what raprat does because he's the boss
@@henrybierman8431 yes.
Absolutely cannot wait to send this video to my mom. Recently, she and I discussed establishing custom rules for the next time we play "Monopoly," because she thinks the game is way too long. Wait till she gets a load out of what's featured in this vid, lmao 😂
13:16 got so much nostalgia from that battlefront loading screen
0:37 magic the noah games be like
I played 1 game of gloomhaven years and years ago and walked away asking all of my friends "So... it's a video game that you play on paper? Why are we not playing DnD?"
Agreed, I have a strict rule for "would this be better as a video game ?" which Gloomhaven absolutely fails. In fact, only a couple of the games shown in this video might pass that rule. Europa Universalis being the most obvious example, as the video game series has completely eclipsed the board game...
Slay the Spire absolutely slaps as a board game tho
My dad, brother, and I tried to play Freedom of the Galaxy, but it is a do your taxes simulator for the Empire player and the pray you don’t get killed by the planetary defense system for the Rebel player.
11:10 in real life Le Mans drivers _are_ allowed to drink (using a dedicated straw in their car), so the Eight Hours of LeMans not letting you drink seems unessecarily mean
You're also allowed to piss in the seat so that seems harsh too
I love the idea of these long games. I want so badly to plan out an entire weekend of playing these kinds of games, with the maximum player counts. I'd even have the whole weekend fully catered.
I also think it would be fun to have a Twitch channel dedicated to playing these super long games out to completion for charity (like those Desert Bus Sim guys do.)
Anyway, I look forward to Campaign for North Africa winning this contest again. In the mean time, I'm gonna look into that Not Star Wars game on TTS.
Can't wait to see Kam speedrun campain for North Africa
5:03
Kam, you might need to hire an exorcist.
What do you mean? It's just a regular IPad. Shame the screen doesn't work anymore though
@@kamsandwich Yeaaaaah you need to call an exorcist. Preferably one from the Geek Squad.
14:19 I KNEW you would mention that! Watch those wrist rockets!
13:14 triggered a sleeper agent in me- amazing reference!
5:49 I heard the r for rail and got REALLY worried for a moment there
Yours quickly became my favorite board game channel on RUclips. Just good classic vibes and a real passion to talk about weird stuff.
Personally I think Campaign for North Africa should be disqualified from this based on how we don't actually know the length time for the game since as far as I know no one has ever actually finished a game of that monstrosity.
Apparently a group of people have. I can't verify it though.
When you got to the war board games with tiles, I was certain you were going to reference more Avalon Hill games.
It's great to see people's reaction when asking someone if they'd like to play Rise and Decline of the Third Reich
I mean we all know this is building up to TCFNA:TDW,1940-43! The least surprising but most anticipated mentioning ever
So you're saying that it might be easier learning French than trying to find a decent translation of Europa Universalis.
Based.
OMG Kam.......I was having a really bad night man......
Was gunna do something stupid again and make a terrible mistake.........saw ur video and you know what.......I still got alot to live for even being sick........thanks bud❤.....Know u were just following schedule for putting up another hilarious insightful video about board games.....(like board james......just better in evey way )........it really helped me tonight bud.......You have no idea
The campaign for north africa was just reissued! I bought it for my dad to give him for christmas
thank you for getting me interested in playing american megafauna with my wife. Our next 10 hours shall be two girls arguing about what evolutionary monstorisity is goofier
HOLY FUCK THIS SHIT GOES FOR $120 ON EBAY. HELL NAW
Good for Mississippi, happy for them
I did not expect "Yo we playing American Megafauna" to become something I quote daily, but here we are.
Axis and Allies games between me and my dad usually lasted upwards of a week, and would inevitably have about twenty or so units in the Dutch East Indies and the Marshall Islands.
"Whoever has the most amount of personal wealth when the bank runs out of money wins"
In real life I'm pretty sure the opposite is true.
Europa Universalis: Price of Power is a newer version of the same concept and actually quite good. It is slightly shorter, but one grand campaign game with my friends still took almost 30 hours
3:34 humans avoiding conflict? 😂❤
If you aren't planning to cover it already, you should cover Empyrean Challenge, it's even more complex than Campaign for North Africa and players (which there are recommended to be 150 of) are recommended to use a spreadsheet program, which has been said to sometimes produce over 1,000 pages of results on a single turn.
I am a chess arbiter so I used to refereeing games that could take up to 8 hours to complete... This video showed me another level of long!
2:53 Honestly, that game sounds cool as hell compared to the 35th military (yuck) simulation game.
I hate the fact that 1870, a game that is set in 1870, has an EMD cab unit on the box, a locomotive that could be built in 1939, at the earliest.
The 18xx games track (no pun intended) railroad and train technology from the title year to the mid-twentieth century, almost always ending with the diesel train. It's a weird choice for the cover art but the game only starts in 1870.
@@HelenVandersluys Okay.
There’s a board game called Diplomacy. The people I played it with used some sort of really stupid home brew rules where there is no limit on how many turns you have to play. The second time I and the other sane people in the room decided to collectively surrender, as it seemed the only option to actually be allowed to leave. We’d been there for 6 hours and there was no end in sight.
Now we wait for the "I try, review and rank all the longest board games in real time" video
I love Twilight Imperium, truly amazing game, I only played it once becasue finding 6 people in my friend group who will say yes to a complex strategy game with minimum 8h play time was a bit too hard.
I'd love to play that one and Here I Stand more often but yeah it's so rare to get a full day where everyone is free.
An honorable mention should be given to Avalon Hill's Titan as that one can take 6-8 hours to play as well.
These games have an alternate win condition of being the last player to not get bored and resign.
23:42 TSR!?!?!? I was not (but probably should of) expecting them
Had Freedom in the Galaxy. It was a fun game, except it was wildly unbalanced in favour of the Empire. Then Rebels have all the cool stuff, like Planetary Secrets to discover and "domino" rebellions where one success sending a planet into revolt can set off others elsewhere, leaving the empire scrambling to contain the damage. It takes a whole lot of work and luck to set up, though.
A good revision would be to focus on the diplomatic game (including characters and running gun battles to keep things fun) and abstracting everything else. It would be a tough little simulation of insurgency/counter-insurgency. The system could be used for Vietnam, Occupied France...
I don't know if you can do anything with this info, but I remember playing an army of darkness game where you have a bunch of miniatures and play as either the deadites or the living, and you fight against each other. The deadites win if they get the necronomicon or if they kill the living and the living win if they kill the deadites or the sun comes up which takes 6 real life hours.
Who does Richard Berg even find to play his frankensteinian horrors? He must have some dedicated friends.
You're like scott the woz for board games I didn't know this was a niche I needed filled
Whoah an ENRON reference? In this economy? Consider my jimmies rustled!
18XX is my favorite series but it is impossible to find people willing to play with.
I sure do wonder what game is famously long and takes weeks to perform a single turn
If you don’t even mention Twilight Inperium then I will scream.
Continuation: Okay thank god you did
It was just in the honourable mentions. So yeah that's the scale of this insanity.
Digging up the sports board games, how long would a full 9-inning game of Strat-O-Matic run using no computer assistance for the rolls and using the most complicated ruleset? (On average, technically in a worst case Strat-O-Matic would be the longest board game ever, even beating Campaign for North Africa, thanks to the funny little quirk of baseball that technically, no game is ever guaranteed to end if both teams remain tied ad nauseum or if one team is just that incompetent and can not get 3 outs in an inning)
I love axis and allies, I used to play it monthly with a friend. We got the setup down to just 1 hour when working together and finished our games in roughly 6 hour sessions
13:18 Lovely detail! ❤
I will finish a round of this game in my lifetime.
My friends shall suffer for my ignorance!
Looking forward to part 2. The champ has to be Drang Nach Osten & Unentschieden
That Battlefront 1 Loading Bloop set off my nostalgia neurons and made me pog while pointing at the video screaming
5:18 thank you for the sign, I wasn’t entirely sure until then
What I've heard from this channel is that Richard Berg is either an insane lunatic or a board game genius. Maybe both.
Can’t wait for the Ollie Gator cameo in the next Star Wars movie
Kam reading full needlessly long game titles ALWAYS makes me laugh
Why even hide Campaign For North Africa? Its obvious what it is. Unless theres another game of similarly monstrous length.
Drang Nach Osten & Unentschieden
This is fascinating! Everything about this is right up my alley. Also should I be mildly concerned for myself that I kind of want to give one of these a go.
Looking forward to part two!
Somebody is gonna try to play all the board games in this video and all its future parts in a row.