Frederick the Great - Readme file
Frederick the Great is a scenario for Test of Time, the
ultimate version of Civilization 2. It can not be played on other versions
of Civilization.
Frederick the Great is designed to be played as a
single player game. Play only as the Prussians.
There are a total of 6 objective cities, each worth one
victory point. In addition, the Frederick II unit is worth 3 victory
points which are lost if it is killed, for a total of 9 victory points.
If, at the end of the game, you have 5 or more victory points, you win.
Otherwise, you lose. Each turn is one month, starting in July 1756.
It lasts a maximum of 89 turns, although it may end sooner if you have
established treaties with Austria, France and Russia. Good luck, Fritz!
BEFORE YOU INSTALL THE SCENARIO......
1. Have you installed the Test of Time patch?
It's important that you do so BEFORE starting
the scenario.
download it here:
CivFanatics
or here:
Cradle of Civilization
2. Have you disabled the animated sprites?
They can override the unit and terrain graphics of
the scenario. Turning them off using the Graphic Options menu doesn't
always work. The only 100% effective way to disable them is to create
a holding folder in the Original directory. Put all spr. files
from that directory inside the holding folder, including resource spr.
and static.spr. When you want the animated units and terrain back,
just move the spr. files out of the holding folder and back into the
Original directory.
INSTALLATION
Installation:
· Under your ToT directory, create (if you have
not already done so) a folder called Scenarios. Do not put this in
the Original, Fantasy or Sci-fi folders. It must be directly under the
main Test of Time directory.
· Inside the Scenario folder, create a second folder
called 'Frederick the Great'.
· Unzip the files from the FtG #1 and FtG
#2 into the newly created Frederick the Great folder..
· To install sound, create a folder called Sound
in your new Frederick the Great folder. Extract all the files from FtG
#3 and FtG #4 into the Sound folder.
HISTORY
See map
.
The 1740s War of Austrian Succession satisfied
almost no one. Frederick the Great of Prussia acquired the province
of Silesia from Austria, greatly increasing his realm, but Austria resented
the loss and plotted revenge. France began building a string of
forts from the Great Lakes south to modern day Pittsburg. They saw
this as a way of protecting the connection between Canada and their other
North American possessions, but Britain saw it as a provocation.
George Washington was dispatched west with an ultimatum. When the
French declared their intention to stay, Washington was sent with a small
force to remove them, but after a small skirmish, Washington holed up
in Fort Necessity and surrendered. Although war had not yet been
declared, Britain sent two regiments, or 800 men under Edward Braddock
to America to take the disputed area, but in 1755, the force was routed
and Braddock killed. Elsewhere in North America, a British force
captured Forts St. John and Beausejour on the Atlantic coast of Canada
which helped the British protect Nova Scotia. An advance to Crown
Point on Lake Champlain was unsuccessfully attacked by the French at Lake
George, but the colonials halted and built Fort William Henry.
An expedition up the Mohawk Valley failed to capture French forts along
Lake Ontario. The French determined to send 3,000 troops to reinforce
Canada. The Royal Navy intercepted and attacked the convoy but captured
only a fraction of the force while creating a major diplomatic incident.
1756
In Canada, Montcalm assumed command and
captured Oswego on the southern coast of Lake Ontario while the main
British force under Lord Loudoun concentrated near Albany.
Britain tried to prevent the war from
spreading and to isolate France diplomatically. King George II
of Britain was Elector of Hanover in northwestern Germany. If France
occupied Hanover, Britain would be forced to exchange any colonial conquests
to regain it. Further, Britain's safety from invasion relied on
friendly or neutral occupation of the North Sea ports. Britain
had a defensive alliance with the Netherlands and Austria for the protection
of the Austrian Netherlands, now Belgium. Because Britain had planned
to commit its troops to colonial conquest, they refused to help defend
the Barrier Forts protecting the area, which weakened their ties to their
two former allies. Britain's interception of the Canada convoy,
and not French expansion in North America was interpreted as aggression
by the European powers. Since the alliance with Holland and Austria
was doomed, Britain approached Russia for assistance against potential
attacks on Hanover from the French or France's ally from the last war,
Prussia. Austria interfered with these efforts by exploiting Tsarina
Elisabeth's hatred of the Prussian king Frederick II. Frederick was
in desperate need of an ally and successfully made an alliance with Britain
for the protection of Hanover.
The Austrians wanted to retake Silesia,
the province Prussia had taken during the last war. During the
Diplomatic Revolution of 1756, century-old enemies France, Austria and
Russia formed a single 
alliance against Prussia. Chancellor Kaunitz, an advisor to the
Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, plotted with France, Russia, Sweden,
and Saxony to dismember Prussia. The King of Prussia, Frederick II,
learned through his spies of the alliance building against him.
He decided to strike first before his enemies were prepared, invading
Saxony on August 29, 1756 and absorbing its army into his own that winter.
Frederick defeated an Austrian army coming to the Saxons' relief at Lobositz
in October, but Saxon resistance forced Frederick to delay his planned
invasion of Bohemia until next year.
Although war was not yet declared, France
began all out preparations against Britain. Early in 1756, French
troops concentrated along their northern coast as if to invade England.
In the Mediterranean, a French naval force escorted a French army to
Minorca, a British held island of great value to any British blockading
force. Naval efforts to relieve the island failed, and the garrison
surrendered. Byng, the admiral in charge of the relief force, was
made the scapegoat and executed by firing squad. England declared
war, but the war had already begun disastrously. Because of the
British failures, the government of Newcastle was weak and William Pitt,
the Foriegn Minister, assumed primary control of the war effort.
1757
Frederick continued the advance into Bohemia,
where he besieged an Austrian army in Prague after defeating it on May
6th. An Austrian relief army did major damage to Frederick at Kolin
on June 18th, forcing him to abandon the siege and the invasion of Bohemia.
On August 30th, in East Prussia, Field Marshal Lehwaldt with 25,000
men attacked 80,000 Russians at Gross Jagersdorf and was defeated, but
the Russians withdrew because of supply problems
As part of Pitt's plan, the British removed
troops from the American wilderness for an amphibious attack on Louisbourg.
The expedition failed and the troop removal allowed Montcalm to attack
and capture Fort William Henry. France's Indian allies massacred
some of the surrendered British troops, an event made famous by the novel,
"The Last of the Mohicans." In India, Robert Clive's British
and Indian force retook Calcutta, which had been lost during the previous
year, captured the French post in Bengal, and defeated a much larger Bengali
army at Plassey.
In September, the British made a
diversion on the French coast at Rochefort, apparently to little effect.
Although the fort was poorly manned, the British failed to take the town
or the fourteen ships of the line, eight frigates, and other ships in the
harbor. On their return, an angry William Pitt planned to send them
back to take the island of Rhe outside Rochefort, but there was little
support and the project was cancelled.
The French advanced into Germany, with
one army advancing against Hanover and another toward Saxony. A
Hanoverian-Prussian-German army under the Duke of Cumberland was formed
to defend Hanover and northwest Germany. Following the defeat at
Hastenbeck, the allied army withdrew north and Cumberland signed the humiliating
Convention of Klosterzeven, ending the war in Germany.
The other French army, under
Soubise, advanced through Germany eastward toward Saxony, but Frederick
defeated it with an army half its size at Rossbach on November 5th.
While Frederick was away, 3,500 Austrians under Hadik had raided Berlin
and ransomed the city. Now, despite the cold of December, Frederick
desperately force-marched his troops back to Silesia where an Austrian
army was reconquering the province. On December 5th, although again
outnumbered two to one, Frederick marched his army unseen behind a ridge
and deployed facing the Austrian left flank obliquely. Frederick attacked
and smashed the Austrians at Leuthen and recovered Silesia in the
following months.
Frederick had hopes of a Royal Navy
squadron in the Baltic to counter Russian and Swedish naval power, or
of bringing Denmark in the war on his side. Frederick also hoped
that Sardinia would enter the war and threaten Corsica and southern France
and that Turkey would attack Austria. He also attempted to bribe the
court of the Tsarina, but none of these efforts succeeded. Except for Britain,
Frederick was islolated. But with his decisive victory over the
French at Rossbach, the British reneged on the Convention of Klosterzeven
and reconstituted the army in Hanover. In November 1757, this army,
now under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, advanced to near Celle on the
Aller River. Frederick hoped the returning troops from Rochefort
would land at the mouth of the Elbe in January, combine with Lehwaldt's
corps and the Hanover army and push the French up the Weser River to Minden.
In the spring, with 3,000 more cavalry, they could push the French completely
out of Germany. Pitt did not want to get bogged down in a Continental
war, and the fanciful plan was not adopted. In December, the French
advanced again, pushing Ferdinand back to Luneberg and taking Harburg
on the 30th.
1758
The British-Prussian alliance was solidified
in early 1758. In April, the British began providing a large subsidy
to Prussia, allowing Frederick to continue the war. His brother-in-law,
Prince Ferdinand of
Brunswick took command of the Anglo-Hanoverian army. In a brilliant
campaign, Ferdinand pushed the French army back across the Rhine.
The allied army crossed the river, and scouts reached as far as Louvain
and Charleroi in modern Belgium. The French fell back south along the Rhine,
but Ferdinand had to withdraw when his rear was threatened.
Frederick began the year in April by besieging
Olmutz in Moravia from his base in Silesia, but the Austrians threatened
his lines of communications and forced him to withdraw. The
Elector of Saxony, whose territory had been invaded by Frederick, was also
the King of Poland. While the Polish nobles refused to go to war with
Prussia, they did allow the Russian army to cross Polish territory to
attack Frederick. The Russians advanced to the Oder River, threatening
Berlin. Frederick moved north, evading the Austrians, and struck
the Russians at Zorndorf on August 25th, winning a costly victory.
The Russians withdrew but besieged Kolberg on Prussia's Baltic coast. In
the indecisive Battle of Tornow on September 25, a Swedish army repulsed
six assaults by the Prussians. Frederick moved into Saxony to counter
the Austrians, who attacked and defeated him at Hochkirk on October 14th.
Prussian maneuvering mitigated the defeat.
William Pitt proved an excellent manager
of the war, subsidizing Prussia and minimizing Continental troop commitments
while protecting Hanover mostly with troops from the German states.
For 1758, British troops were sent on diversionary attacks on the French
coast, at St. Malo (see map) and Cherbourg, which were thought by Pitt
and Frederick to divert troops away from Germany. An expedition
to western Africa captured the French slaving station at Senegal.
In North America, a force was dispatched to take the vital fortress of
Louisbourg, which it did, but there was no time to take Quebec, the next
objective. A British force under Maj. Gen. James Abercrombie took
heavy casualties in a failed attack on Ticonderoga, but an expedition under
Col. John Bradstreet captured Fort Frontenac and gained control of Lake
Ontario. As a result, an expedition under Col. Forbes found Fort Duquense
abandoned and burned. Fort Pitt on the modern site of Pittsburg was
built in its place.
1759
A British army under James Wolfe captured
Quebec in the decisive battle on the Plains of Abraham in which both
Wolfe and French general Montcalm were killed. In this brilliant
campaign Wolfe captured the key to Canada, preventing the French from
reinforcing or escaping from Canada. Along Lake Ontario, the British
captured Oswego and Fort Niagara. The main army in America under
Jeffrey Amherst slowly advanced north to Crown Point and built a fleet
to control Lake Champlain.
For 1759, Pitt ceased diversions on the
French coast and instead directed attention to the West Indies, specifically
Martinique. The island was found too formidable so Guadeloupe was
taken. Meanwhile in France preparations were being made to invade
England, but decisive naval actions at Lagos off Portugal, where seven of
twelve ships of the line were captured or sunk, and Quiberon Bay where seven
more ships were lost, ended the possibility of invasion and cemented British
naval mastery. The blockade, however, was difficult on neutrals and
there was the real possibility of Spain, Holland, and Denmark entering the
war against Britain. Pitt restricted privateers and returned captured
ships to ease relations.
In Germany, Ferdinand had been in winter
quarters along Munster, Lippstadt, and Paterborn. In addition to
the lower Rhine army, now under Armentieres, Ferdinand was faced by Broglie,
who threatened his rear from his Frankfort base. Ferdinand advanced
on Frankfort, but was repulsed at Bergen on April 13th. Fortunately,
Broglie did not pursue. Prince Henry had advanced into Bohemia,
and in May advanced from Zwickau to Bayreuth, forcing the Imperialist
army back to Nurnberg until Henry fell back.
In July, Contades advanced from Geissen,
threatening Ferdinand's left, pushing him back beyond Minden, which was
taken July 9th. The lower Rhine army, under Armentieres took Munster
and moved to join Contades. Just when Hanover seemed lost, Ferdinand
turned and attacked at Minden on August 1st, gaining a great victory.
The whole French army could have been destroyed, but the cavalry under
Lord George Sackville did not join the attack. Ferdinand followed the
French to Warburg, but did not pursue vigorously. An allied force
retook Munster, and Contades continued to fall back to Giessen on the Lahn
River. Frederick's difficulties forced a reinforcement from Ferdinand,
weakening him just when he was doing so well. The new French commander,
Broglie, now ordered the lower Rhine army to threaten Ferdinand's right by
advancing from Colonge to Dillenburg on the Dill River, but Ferdinand successfully
held Marburg.
The year 1759 saw some severe Prussian
defeats. 
The Austrians moved against and conquered Silesia but denied
Frederick the chance for decisive battle. Austrian general Daun forced
the surrender of an entire Prussian corps of 13,000 men in the Battle of
Maxen. At the Battle of Kay, or Paltzig, the Russian Count Saltykov with
70,000 Russians defeated 26,000 Prussian troops commanded by General von
Wedel. The Russians were approaching Frankfurt on the Oder River, and Frederick
moved up from Silesia to confront them. Frederick tried another
of his famous flank attacks, but rough terrain hampered the effort and
he was badly beaten at Kunersdorf, losing 19,000 of his nearly 50,000 men.
The armies of Russia and Austria now combined, and the Imperial army
retook Dresden, the capital of Saxony. The Austrians and Russians
had now planned to advance on Berlin and finish Frederick off, but the
Prussian army of Prince Henry maneuvered into allied lines of communication
which forced them back into Silesia. The Russians now saw that their
communications from the north were vulnerable and withdrew. The Austrians
withdrew into Moravia, so the armies ended the year just where they had
started.
1760
In Germany, Ferdinand was reinforced by
British troops while the Prussian contingent joined Frederick.
The French, under Broglie outmaneuvered Ferdinand, threatening his right
and advancing from Giessen, clashing with the allies at Korbach near Waldeck
on July 10th, and continuing the advance and capturing Kassel. Despite
an allied success against a French army approaching from the lower Rhine
at Warburg on July 31st, the allies and French were in a stalemate.
Ferdinand sent a detachment to the Rhine to pressure France into peace,
but after crossing the Rhine it was defeated at Klosterkamp on October
16th in part by a new French army formed from coastal units. The
campaign ended with the allies withdrawing.
Frederick had a difficult year, with pressure
in both Silesia and Saxony. The Prussian general Fouqué
was defeated in the Battle of Landshut. The Austrians captured Glatz in
Silesia. The Swedes occupied part of Pomerania. Frederick defeated an attack
on his marching army by the Austrians at Liegnitz on August 15th.
He then maneuvered the Russians out of Silesia, and ended plans of Russian
and Austrian cooperation. Although Berlin was briefly taken, Frederick
won a costly victory over the Austrians at Torgau, forcing them to retreat
to Dresden.
In Canada, the British had spent a difficult
winter in Quebec, and the city was nearly retaken by the French.
When the ice cleared away, British reinforcements ended the threat.
The year's campaign involved mopping up French resistance, culminating in
the surrender of French forces in Montreal in September 1760. This
ended the war in America.
Admiral Hawke, in charge of the blockade
of France, took the island of Dumet off Morbihan in Quiberon Bay, which
proved useful in supplying vegetables and water to the blockading fleet.
Hawke created a plan to land troops on the nearby Rhuys peninsula.
Using it as a base, the troops would be used against the remaining French
ships in the Villaine River by landings and operations around Auray and
Vannes. Pitt, however, decided the occupation of Belleisle would
provide a good base for further raids. Hawke's promising plan was
cancelled in favor of Pitt's.
In southern India, the French had captured
Fort St. David in 1758 and besieged Madras in 1759. The French force,
under Lally, was however defeated at Masulipatam in 1759 and at Wandewash
in 1760 and all French territory was captured by 1761.
1761
In February, Ferdinand began a winter
offensive, advancing south beyond Kassel, but failing to capture it.
In March, a French counteroffensive pushed the allies back. In
June, a French army under
Soubise advanced from the lower Rhine while an army under Broglie
moved north to take Hanover. Ferdinand moved on Soubise and marched
completely behind him. Broglie joined Soubise and attacked Ferdinand
at Vellinghausen on July 15th and 16th. Despite having 92,000 French
to 65,000 allies, Ferdinand was victorious. Soubise withdrew to
near Munster while Broglie went back to Warburg. Maneuvering the
rest of the summer was inconclusive.
Belleisle was captured by the British
in early 1761 but proved disappointing. Another abandoned project,
the capture of Mauritius and Bourbon in the Indian Ocean, would require
a year to complete and was cancelled with a possible peace approaching.
In Germany, Ferdinand forced Soubise out of Hesse to Frankfort. By
late July, however, French armies under Soubise and de Broglie, which outnumbered
Ferdinand two to one, tried to maneuver the allies from the Lippe River,
from which they protected Hanover. Ferdinand defeated Broglie, ending
French hopes.
Frederick was unable to prevent the junction
of the Austrians and Russians in Silesia, and took up a strong position
at Bunzelwitz which the allies would not attack. Meanwhile, the Austrians
made progress in Saxony and captured Schweidnitz.while the Russians
took Kolberg on the Baltic, which greatly increased the threat to Prussia.
1762-63
France convinced Spain
to enter the war to regain enough naval power to once again attempt an
invasion of England. Controversies related to the entry of Spain
as well as the coronation of George III led to the fall of Newcastle's
and Pitt's government and the formation of a new one under Bute. Britain
now threatened to withdraw her subsidies, and, as the Prussian armies
had dwindled to 60,000 men, Frederick's survival was severely threatened.
An invasion of England was never really practical and Spain gained
nothing by the war. Despite having a new enemy, Britain captured
Martinique from France followed by Havana on August 12, 1762 and Manila
on October 6, 1762, both from Spain. With the loss of Havana, Spain
lost three ships of the line sunk, nine captured, and two being built,
which amounted to roughly 20% of the Spanish navy. More importantly,
this blocked Spain's vital trade and treasure network which financed their
war effort. Spain invaded Britain's ally Portugal in the hopes of
gaining a bargaining chip at the peace talks. They hoped to divert
troops from Britain in preparation for the foiled desperate invasion attempt.
Britain shifted troops from Belleisle to Portugal and the Spanish invasion
was halted.
In Germany, the two French armies under
D'Estrees and Soubise combined and advanced from Kassel to Ferdinand's
line behind the Diemal River. Ferdinand crossed the river and attacked
and defeated 70,000 French with his army of only 40,000 at Wilhelmsthal
on June 24th, ending any French offensive plans and forcing them back
to Kassel. A new French army under Conde advanced from the Rhine
to link up with the main French army, whose communications with Frankfurt
were now nearly cut. On July 23rd, Ferdinand battled the main French
army at Lutterberg to draw their attention north, but his attempt to advance
from the south and completely cut their communications was frustrated
by the weather. Ferdinand withdrew and the war bogged down along
one of Germany's many defensible rivers.
Meanwhile, Tsarina Elisabeth died and was replaced by Peter III,
an admirer of Frederick the Great. Russia made peace with Prussia
(the Treaty of St. Petersburg) and even supplied Frederick with troops. Sweden
also made peace at this time.. In the aftermath, Frederick was able to
drive the Austrians from Silesia in the Battle of Freiberg (October 29,
1762), while his Brunswick allies captured the key town of Göttingen.
The British-French hostilities were ended in 1763 by the Treaty
of Paris, which involved a complex series of land exchanges, the most
important being France's ceding of New France to Britain. Spain
lost control of Florida to Britain, but received New Orleans and the Louisiana
Territory west of the Mississippi River from the French. France also returned
Minorca to the British. Austria, facing the prospect of fighting Frederick
alone, also agreed to end the war.
European boundaries were returned to their pre-war status
by the Treaty of Hubertusburg (February 1763). Prussia thus maintained
its possession of Silesia, having survived the combined assault of three
neighbours, each larger than itself. Prussia gained enormously in influence
and was henceforward counted in the ranks of the Great Powers.
The Seven Years' War was the last major military conflict in
Europe before the outbreak of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
towards the end of the 18th century. Frederick's campaigns would later
be studied by Napoleon. After conquering Prussia in 1806, Napoleon visited
the tomb of Frederick the Great and said, "If he were alive, we would not
be here."
The Seven Years War, or the French and Indian War in North America,
had a great impact on world history in several ways.
1) Britain conquered Canada. The American colonists
no longer needed protection from Britain, and the attempt by Parliament
to tax the colonists to help pay for the war sparked the American Revolution.
2) France and Spain embarked upon a major naval buildup,
made possible by the retention by France of fishing rights off the Canadian
coast. Stronger Bourbon navies made possible the American victory
in the Revolutionary War.
3) The debts France incurred in this war and later in the
American Revolution helped cause the French Revolution. The humiliation
of the army led to reforms and innovations which were later used with
great success by Napoleon.
4) Prussia survived the war and retained Silesia despite
enormous odds and confirmed its place as an important European power.
After the Napoleonic Wars, Prussia increased its power relative to Austria,
and in 1870 Prussia united Germany.
5) Russia showed itself to be a major power capable of enormous
influence. It gained greater influence in Poland, and this would
eventually lead to its partition.
6) By its lack of participation, The Netherlands showed itself
to be in relative decline. Smaller states like The Netherlands
and Saxony were becoming increasingly vulnerable. Despite its
glorious past, Spain confirmed that it was a weak client state of France
with minimal military power.
7) Britain confirmed itself as the world's dominant naval
and economic power and a force to be reckoned with in the European balance
of power. Britain became the dominant European power in India enabling
it to eventually conquer all of India and used its resources to further
expand the empire. Some historians believe British control of India
made the Industrial Revolution possible.
DESIGNER'S NOTES
Frederick the Great was a relatively easy scenario
to design. Essentially, there is only one playable civ, under constant
attack by five of the other civs. The design problem is a matter of balancing
their flow of reinforcements against the ability of a human player to hang
on for the designated number of turns. The scenario starts in July 1756,
as a contest between Prussia and Austria, with Prussia having the initiative.
Both sides are reinforced in April 1758, but new French, Imperial, Swedish
and Russian armies appear later in the year, leaving Prussia assailed on
4 sides. From this point on, it's a defensive struggle for the rest of the
game. Be very conservative with your leader units, especially Frederick II,
since they can't be replaced.
Prussia's only ally is the British in Hanover. When
Britain has lost 3 of it's fortress* units, events are triggered which
create Prussian-controlled units in British cities. By giving control of
the British and Hanoverian reinforcements to the Prussian player, the scenario
allows the human player to control all the important military activity of
the war. To avoid historically unrealistic situations, a house rule prevents
British, Hanoverian or Hessian units being moved east to reinforce Prussia.
Given the seasonal nature of military campaigns during
this period, each AI-controlled civ gets fresh reinforcements during
the April turn of each year. By late fall, most of these should have been
expended and things will probably cool down a bit. Use this time to rebuild
and reorganize your army for the next year's campaign. Sell off improvements
to rush buy units you will need, since Prussia gets no more event created
reinforcements after 1757. Complete researching 'British Subsidy'. This
turns on your Hanoverian Succession wonder (Adam Smith's Trading Co.) After
that, research is irrelevant, and you can consider selling off your libriaries
and universities. If the British civ loses control of all four of its'
original cities, the Hanoverian Succession is turned off permanently.
Fortresses and sieges were an important feature of
warfare in this period, and they are in the scenario as well. Most cities
(but not all) contain a fortress unit. When a city containing a fortress
unit is captured, a new fortress unit belonging to the attacking civ is
created in the city by events. It was apparent during early testing
that a fortress that was challenging for the human player to capture was
impossible for the AI. The solution was to create two types, a stronger
one with a red centre, and a weaker one with a blue centre, further identified
with an asterisk. British and Prussian fortresses are blue, Coalition fortresses
are red. When a city containing a coalition (red) fortress is captured,
it is replaced with a blue one to simulate the damage sustained during the
siege. Fortresses are also a type of 'settler' unit, which means they can
sometimes be eliminated by starving the city they're in.
Prussia can buld spies, but they can't bribe cities
or steal techs. AI civs can't build spies. Prussia can't build caravans,
but can get them via events by attacking caravans of others. Siege Batteries
can often (but not always) take out a fortress unit in one shot. They have
the missile flag so they are lost after attacking and are very expensive,
so don't waste them. Only Jaeger and Pandour units may enter mountain terrain.
An engineer unit is included, but it's not enabled as I didn't see any need
for it.
Sometime after turn 66 (Dec 1761) the Russians, the
Imperials, the Swedes and the French will be able to talk to you for the
first time. You may want to make peace, unless they still control any cities
you need for your victory conditons. Once both France and Russia can talk,
and you capture an Austrian controlled city, Austria will also be able to
talk. Once France, Russia and Austria can all negotiate, you will get the
tech 'das Ende', which ends the game. If you haven't got it by turn 88,
events will give it to you regardless, and the game ends.
When you receive 'das Ende', your score will be computed
by events. You get 1 point for controlling each of Berlin, Magdeburg, Stettin,
Breslau, Konigsberg and Hanover. You get 3 points if Frederick has not been
eliminated. If you have 5 or more points, you win. The game should tell
you whether or not you won and then end.
There are new stereo sounds with commands in
German, Russian, English and French. Baroque music is by Bach, Handel
and Vivaldi.
TACTICS
All terrain except ocean has an invisible 'airbase', relabeled
as 'stackable'. This makes it possible to stack multiple units in
a square without fear of the entire stack being wiped out in a single
attack. Sometimes the airbase will be removed by an AI controlled
unit, so be careful, especially when besieging cities. Human players are
prohibited from pillaging airbases.
Rivers are usually placed in 'valley' terrain which has a 2 MP
cost to enter and a 1/2 defense. This means that crossing rivers is
dangerous as your units will be subject to attack at 75% strength
while crossing.
Many cities have a 'fortress' unit in them. Scout with a spy or
a weak combat unit before attacking cities, as a leader will likely
be killed attacking a fort unit and can't be replaced. Use siege batteries
to kill the fortress unit before attacking with leaders or other units.
A fortress is best defended with a group of units, including several
infantry units, a leader, some artillery for counterattacks and a cavalry
unit or two to attack nearby enemy artillery units. If the city's fortress
unit is destroyed, you may have to abandon the city or risk the loss of its
other defenders as well.
Always keep your city walls in good repair, as this puts attacking cavalry
at a disadvantage and keeps the city from declining in population as a result
of repeated attacks.
HOUSE RULES
Pillaging stackable terrain (airbases) is not allowed.
No British or Hanoverian unit under Prussian control may move
east of line 29 (Brunswick), and no Hesse-Kassel unit or the Ferdinand
unit may move east of line 33 (Magdeburg). Actual Prussian units built
in NW German cities may move farther east to reinforce Frederick.
Prussian spies may not be used against the British or the Poles.
WONDERS
Hofburg,
Vienna
(Pyramids)
Sans Souci,
Berlin
(Hanging Gardens)
Silesian Guilds,
Breslau
(Colossus)
Notre Dame Cathedral, Rheims
(Oracle)
Vauban's System,
Lille (Great Wall)
Pragmatic Sanction,
Budapest (King Richard's Crusade)
Copernicus' Observatory, Krakow (Copernicus'
Observatory)
Der Altstadt,
Dresden
(Shakespeare's Theatre)
Schonbrunn Palace,
Vienna (Bach's Cathedral)
Voltaire's Salon,
Dijon
(Newton's College)
Hanoverian Succession, Berlin
(Adam Smith's Trading Co.)
Prague Castle,
Prague (Eiffel
Tower)
Schloss Nymphenburg, Munich
(Cure for Cancer)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Frederick the Great: A Military Life", Christopher Duffy
"The Seven Year's War", Daniel Marston
"The Wars of Frederick the Great", Dennis Showalter
West Point Atlas "The Dawn of Modern Warfare", Thomas E. Griess, ed.
"Frederick the Great, the Campaigns of the Soldier King", Frank Davis, Strategy
and Tactics Magazine, no. 49
DEDICATION
To Markos Giannopoulos (Mark G) for his work over the years
to create a place for the Civilization community to grow.
THANKS
To Fairline for custom making the graphics used for the
units of this scenario. To Curt Sibling for the city graphics. And
to AGRICOLA for hex-editing the alliance between the Poles (barbarians)
and the other civs. To my playtesters: AGRICOLA, Fairline, Curt Sibling,
Palaiologos and EZRhino.
I hope you enjoy it.
techumseh, April, 2007
