Well, true, but even "Back In The Day" we broke games into sessions. Something like Drang Noch Osten takes several hundred hours to play. I wonder if one thing that changed is we aren't college students any more who can simply use the dining room table in our rented house for DNO over six months and meet Sunday from 2 to 5 to play.
In one case I know the "turn" lasted a week, and the various subcommanders would make their turn at various points during the week and combat happened on one designated day.
Whhhuuut??? We marathon played DNO, eight hours on both Saturday and Sunday, and if we could get in a turn on a weeknight after school we did. I don't remember playing for more than two months before one side or the other would resign or surrender because they were defeated. This includes at least two full games of
DNO/Unentscheiden. Europa was one of my favorites, and at one time I owned
DNO/Unentscheiden, Case White, Narvik, Marita-Merkur and
Fall of France. My friend Paul had all of those as well as
Their Finest Hour. We were very tempted to get
Torch, The Western Desert, The Near East, and Spain & Portugal to try the full WWII Europa experience, but never had enough time or money to get that all together before he went off to college, and I went off to Korea in the Army in 1985.
We played over at Paul's House, becuase he had a game room (not in a basement, but an extra bedroom in the ranch house) big enough to setup DNO, and no pets, and all of his brothers and sisters were older and had already moved out of the house, so the game table could sit for weeks undisturbed.
Best DNO game as the Russians, had perfect armor corps deployment behind the main line east of Poland, and totally stalled the German attack of Army Group North by forcing German Infantry divisions to retreat and block the advance of the Panzer and Panzergrenadier divisions. Counter-attacked in late July, and had taken ground Eastern Prussia by mid-August of 1941 and was almost close enough to unleash the Russian Artillery on Berlin. Paul resigned in disgust. Second game didn't go so well for me, as he made sure his Panzers and Panzergrenadier were leading everywhere in Army Group North. At least I still had Moscow when the mud came!
As Germans, my best game had me east of Moscow in early August with the entire 4th Panzer Army. I didn't bother to capture Moscow, I just completely surrounded it, and cut off it's supplies. The Infantry was slow to follow, but I had captured at least one of the Russian reinforcement cities where troops from the far east were being railed into, and had total air superiority over the entire Northern front from the Baltic to Kiev.
Worst game. Narvik. ...As the Germans, I was completely ejected from Norway in 1940. Remember kiddies, you can't get reinforcement by sea, if you don't capture the ports. Second worst game, Their Finest Hour, ...as the Germans. You know you are not doing well when Goering historically did better than you...