Introduction by Congress of Vienna (CoV)’s Editor, Fred Schachter – To familiarize the InsideGMT audience of what designer Frank Esparrago created with his fun and exciting Congress of Vienna game, now a GMT P-500 offering which has “Made the Cut” (thank you patrons!); previous InsideGMT articles presented “Designer’s Notes”, “Game as History: An Historical Introduction to the Congress of Vienna Period (CoV)”, “Meet the Statesmen of Congress of Vienna”, and “Congress of Vienna Goes Electric with VASSAL”. Now we present an example of how the rules and game components come together in this series entitled “Congress of Vienna Detailed Sequence of Play”. Use this link to access copies of the preceding-referenced articles: https://www.gmtgames.com/p-850-congress-of-vienna.aspx .

This series is based on a four player “across the Atlantic” VASSAL game narrated by game designer Frank Esparrago: two players were in Spain and two located in the USA. It will hopefully provide readers insight into how enjoyable, thought-provoking, and entertaining Congress of Vienna is! The initial episode of this piece took readers through this example turn’s initial set-up.

Please note the following text and ensuing increments of this article series is, with some editing, eventually intended as content for the game’s Playbook. As such, there will be ready reference to the Rulebook to explain related detail as needed. For now, kindly accept our apologies for having the rules behind this example of play remaining implicit.

With that, take it away Frank!

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