Hello! I’m A&A: North Africa Lead Game Designer Matt Hyra … a WWII and A&A buff for nearly 40 years. I’ve been working alongside Larry Harris since early March to bring this game to life after it won Renegade’s “You Pick the Battle” contest.

We are ready to invite experienced A&A players who are at least 21 years of age to join the playtest. We are looking for active testers, not preview-seekers. Previews will happen months before the release.

Our playtesting uses the Screentop online game platform, similar to Tabletop Simulator. This platform is free to use (for you - we pay to host our games there). You’ll need to have a microphone and laptop/desktop computer to play.

Click on this link to read more and to join us: Renegade Playtesters

A link there will send you to our Playtest Discord channel where you’ll need to make a free account (if you don’t already have one) and sign an NDA. With that done you’ll soon be able to see the games we have available to playtest and the newest at the bottom is North Africa. Add your name to the list and we’ll send you an application. Real names are required.
You don’t need to remember all this. The links will walk you through it.

Once accepted, there will be new rules to read and debates to join on our private Discord channel. Make your mark on the game by signing up early and playing your first warm-up game very soon!

Thanks,
Matt

All correct!
Thanks,
Matt Hyra

@The-Captain
I’m not really authorized to give actual previews, but I can tell you that playtesting has been underway for over 3 months, and continues to this day. This week alone has seen 4 games played.

There are several new rules/mechanisms to cover certain aspects of the theater.

That’s about all I can say. Rest assured that the marketing team with blitz you with info when the time is right.

@Witt All good. Thanks for jumping in with excellent rules knowledge, as it took me a couple of days to see the question. And thanks for the kind words!

@nishav To further explain, AAA aren’t land defenders when rolling AAA, as there aren’t any defenders yet. The decision to defend or retreat happens after landmines and AAA.

@17Mark71 To explain further, everything inside the Malta circle is Malta land territory. Ignore the water inside the circle. An aircraft leaving Malta always makes its first move into the Malta Convoy Zone.

@johnny5 Yes, they could.

@Driel310 If defenders can’t fire and can’t retreat, then they are all destroyed at the end of the current round of combat. If some defending units are self-sufficient, they can stand and fight while the others are destroyed. And those soon-to-be-dead units can be used as casualties in that round of combat only, as they will all be dead when it’s time to retreat and they cannot.
Page 22: “Each <retreating> unit may move to a different territory, but if no eligible territory is available to retreat to, it is destroyed.”

So those Self-Sufficient units can stay alive into another round of combat if there are enough casualties among the retreaters. The Axis might need only 2 rounds of supply to win in this example. But if there are a couple of Scout Cars and Air Units, Cairo might survive only 1-2 attackers.

@johnny5 Yes, they could.

@Driel310 If defenders can’t fire and can’t retreat, then they are all destroyed at the end of the current round of combat. If some defending units are self-sufficient, they can stand and fight while the others are destroyed. And those soon-to-be-dead units can be used as casualties in that round of combat only, as they will all be dead when it’s time to retreat and they cannot.
Page 22: “Each <retreating> unit may move to a different territory, but if no eligible territory is available to retreat to, it is destroyed.”

So those Self-Sufficient units can stay alive into another round of combat if there are enough casualties among the retreaters. The Axis might need only 2 rounds of supply to win in this example. But if there are a couple of Scout Cars and Air Units, Cairo might survive only 1-2 attackers.

@Witt All good. Thanks for jumping in with excellent rules knowledge, as it took me a couple of days to see the question. And thanks for the kind words!

All correct!
Thanks,
Matt Hyra

@nishav To further explain, AAA aren’t land defenders when rolling AAA, as there aren’t any defenders yet. The decision to defend or retreat happens after landmines and AAA.

@17Mark71 To explain further, everything inside the Malta circle is Malta land territory. Ignore the water inside the circle. An aircraft leaving Malta always makes its first move into the Malta Convoy Zone.

@The-Captain
I’m not really authorized to give actual previews, but I can tell you that playtesting has been underway for over 3 months, and continues to this day. This week alone has seen 4 games played.

There are several new rules/mechanisms to cover certain aspects of the theater.

That’s about all I can say. Rest assured that the marketing team with blitz you with info when the time is right.

@The-Captain Status is that things are going well!

@The-Captain Hello! We do not have the map to show yet. Not sure when the marketing team will want to release that or have any sort of previews. Certainly won’t be this year.

As to your earlier post (just saw it), things move a little too fast to do print & play testing.

Thanks,
Matt

@MMFestus Great! Follow the link in my post above.