Counterpoint; It's only 210 minutes.

Scotty could've played it in 38 minutes.

Wherever that "we need to talk about parallel dimensions" Mario 64 video is, it's in dire need of this tag.

Played it in my youth; I didn't much like it. Part of the problem was that it was 100% dice and 0% creativity; part of the problem was that everyone else took it WAY too seriously. By 1984 I'd heard enough arguments about Wild Weasels for one lifetime.

Make sure you adjust using the DRM table for assault with prone squad in morning dew -1. If suppression, squad might have to take a roll to check for percentage of pissing pants. Of forces with peed pants, take a -5 DRM for reduced effectiveness in the open. +3 for all armor which has been in maintenance within 2-5 hours. Those that have not get a -2 DRM until someone calls Barbara to grease the bearings.

I briefly tried playing it in middle school, using only the basic rules (no shuttles or EWAR thank god) and it was still exhausting. It's basically Battletech to the N(erd)th degree, and seemed to be 98% dice and busy paperwork, 2% tactics.

Which is why the video games (the recent turn based Battletech game too) were so dull. Some people got a kick out of all the damage-tracking busywork of the board games. Once you stripped that away, you realized that the actual meat of the game was bare bones with very little strategy other than lining up to shoot each other. Less futurized warfare, more Civil War firing lines.