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2018 · 1-2 players · 1500min · weight 2.93 · 264 ratings
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ID
165292
Name
The Dark Sands: War in North Africa, 1940-42
Year
2018
Rank
6765
Min players
1
Max players
2
Playing time
1500
Min playtime
90
Max playtime
1500
Avg weight
2.9259
Num weights
27
Bayes avg
5.67884
Average
7.43815
Users rated
264
Num owned
1016
Wanting
31
Wishing
202
Num comments
117
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (5)
Chit-Pull SystemDice RollingGrid MovementHexagon GridSimulation
Categories (2)
WargameWorld War II
Description (459 chars)
"The Dark Sands" takes the wargame system from Ted S. Raicer’s sold-out and critically acclaimed The Dark Valley: The East Front Campaign to the legendary battles of North Africa in World War II. From the most successful British armored operation of the war, Operation Compass, to the climactic battle two years later at El Alamein, The Dark Sands breaks new ground in portraying the campaigns of the British 8th Army and Rommel’s Afrika Korps.
LLM v2 (wide)
Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).
LLM v3 (deep)
Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).
LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)
Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).
LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)
Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.