The East Is Red: The Sino Soviet War is a two-player board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1974. It simulates a hypothetical Russian invasion of Manchuria and North China using the armaments of the 1970s. One player controls the Russian invaders and the other the Chinese defenders. The game uses a 22 by 34 inch hex-grid map scaled at 50 kilometres per hex and 100 die-cut counters, and follows the alternating I Go, You Go sequence of movement and combat that SPI had first developed for Kursk: Operation Zitadelle. Victory depends only on how many Chinese industrial centres the Russians take: 22 or fewer is a Russian defeat and 23 or more a victory. Jim Dunnigan designed it, and it first appeared in Strategy and Tactics issue 42. Decision Games later acquired the rights and published an updated second edition, Dragon vs Bear, in 2014.
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Playing Time PublisherSPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.) 2 Game Category Game Category Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Minimum Players Maximum Players Classification
Player Count Sport
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1. The East is Red: The Sino Soviet War (Wikipedia)
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is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc.
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(SPI) in 1974 that simulates a hypothetical invasion of Manchuria and North China by Russia
Description, players
The East Is Red is a two-player game in which one player controls the Russian invaders
Derived From: Kursk: Operation Zitadelle, Description, gameplay system
uses an alternating system of "I Go, You Go" turns, movement and combat first developed by SPI for Kursk: Operation Zitadelle (1971)
View the Source2. The East is Red: The Sino Soviet War (BoardGameGeek)
- Playing Time: 360
- Designer: Jim Dunnigan
- Publisher: SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.)
- Game Category: Modern Warfare
- Game Category: Wargame
- Game Mechanic: Dice Rolling
- Game Mechanic: Hexagon Grid
- Minimum Players: 2
- Maximum Players: 2
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