Afrika Korps is a two-player wargame

Wargaming

A wargame is a strategy game that deals with military operations of various types, real or fictional. Wargaming is the hobby dedicated to the play of such games, which can also be called conflict simulations, or consims for short. When used professionally to study warfare, it is generally known as...

 published by the Avalon Hill Game Company

Avalon Hill

Avalon Hill was a game company that specialized in wargames and strategic board games. Its logo contained its 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 simulations...

 in 1963 and then re-released in 1965 and 1977. Played on a mapboard depicting the northern coastline of Africa

Africa

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, the game follows Erwin Rommel

Erwin Rommel

Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel , popularly known as the Desert Fox , was a German Field Marshal of World War II. He won the respect of both his own troops and the enemies he fought....

's Afrika Korps

Afrika Korps

The German Africa Corps , or the Afrika Korps as it was popularly called, was the German expeditionary force in Libya and Tunisia during the North African Campaign of World War II...

 and their Italian

Italy

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 allies as they fought back-and-forth campaigns against British

United Kingdom

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 forces in World War II

World War II

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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-Day

D-Day (game)

D-Day is a board wargame published by Avalon Hill first in 1961 and later re-released in 1965, 1971, 1977 and 1991.An operational/strategic simulation of the Western Front between June and September, 1944, the game simulates the invasion by the Allies of France while it was occupied by the Axis...

 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

Regiment

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 up to division

Division (military)

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size. The game's system emphasizes the importance of supply, particularly the variability of Afrika Korps supply and reinforcements.