2005Ananda Gupta, Jason Matthews
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- Creators
- 62
2 players120 - 180 minHeavy weight

2022Jason Matthews
Mainly reviews and playthroughs. Twilight Struggle: Red Sea – Conflict in the Horn of Africa is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 14 reviews, 12 how-to-play guides, 14 recorded sessions, 10 unboxings, and 5 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
Part of GMT's Lunchtime Series, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea – Conflict in the Horn of Africa is a two-player card driven game that builds on the award winning Twilight Struggle. The year is 1974, and the Soviet Union and the United States have been locked in a life-or-death struggle across the globe. As so often happened during the Cold War, a relatively obscure region of the globe suddenly took center stage. Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, a bedrock U.S. ally in Africa, had grown old and increasingly dictatorial. When he was overthrown in 1974, a Marxist coalition took the reins of power. This new revolutionary leadership initiated a chain of events that upset the regional balance of power and unleashed all the familiar elements of Cold War competition in the Horn of Africa. With a more limited scope and much shorter playtime, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea is the perfect way to introduce new players to the Twilight Struggle system, while maintaining all the tension, decision making, and theme of the original classic. The cards from Twilight Struggle can be used in TS: Red Sea and vice versa.
Twilight Struggle: Red Sea – Conflict in the Horn of Africa has 55 videos from 25 creators: 14 reviews, 12 how-to-play guides, 14 playthroughs, 10 unboxings and 5 other videos. They date from 2017 to September 2024.
To learn the rules, start with "Twilight Struggle: Red Sea - BGG How to Play" by BoardGameGeek, which runs 21 min. For a quicker teach, "A look at USAID" by 18xx Training Boardgame Zone runs 5 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "TDG: Twilight Struggle: Red Sea - Conflict in the Horn of Africa" by The Discriminating Gamer. 11 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Solo Play of Twilight Struggle Red Sea" by 18xx Training Boardgame Zone, one of 14 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Twilight Struggle, Imperial Struggle, Tide of Iron: Designer Series Vol. 1 and 1960: The Making of the President, also by Jason Matthews.
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2005Ananda Gupta, Jason Matthews
2 players120 - 180 minHeavy weight
2020Ananda Gupta, Jason Matthews
2 players120 - 240 minVery heavy weight
2008Michael Bennighof, Richard H. Berg, Frank Chadwick, John Goodenough, Jack Greene, Don Greenwood, John Hill (I), Bill Jaffe, Chad Jensen, Corey Konieczka, Robert A. Kouba, Dana Lombardy, Jason Matthews, Joseph Miranda, John Prados, Jack Radey, Ted Raicer, Mark Simonitch, Vance von Borries, Rick Young
2 - 4 players120 minMedium weight
2007Christian Leonhard, Jason Matthews
2 players90 - 120 minHeavy weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Part of GMT's Lunchtime Series, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea – Conflict in the Horn of Africa is a two-player card driven game that builds on the award winning Twilight Struggle. The year is 1974, and the Soviet Union and the United States have been locked in a life-or-death struggle across the globe. As so often happened during the Cold War, a relatively obscure region of the globe suddenly took center stage. Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, a bedrock U.S. ally in Africa, had grown old and increasingly dictatorial. When he was overthrown in 1974, a Marxist coalition took the reins of power. This new revolutionary leadership initiated a chain of events that upset the regional balance of power and unleashed all the familiar elements of Cold War competition in the Horn of Africa. With a more limited scope and much shorter playtime, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea is the perfect way to introduce new players to the Twilight Struggle system, while maintaining all the tension, decision making, and theme of the original classic. The cards from Twilight Struggle can be used in TS: Red Sea and vice versa.
Designer
Jason Matthews
Artist
Terry Leeds
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GMT Games
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