Introduction by Congress of Vienna (CoV)’s Editor, Fred Schachter – To familiarize the InsideGMT audience of what designer Frank Esparrago accomplished with his fun and exciting Congress of Vienna game, now a GMT P-500 offering which has “Made the Cut” (thank you patrons, thank you so very much!); 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 and neutral game observer Enrique Trigueros: two players were in Spain and two located in the USA. These articles will hopefully provide readers insight as to how enjoyable, thought-provoking, and entertaining Congress of Vienna is!

The first episode of this piece took readers through this example turn’s initial set-up with Parts 2 & 3 conveying a recapitulation of the game’s Diplomacy and Government Phases… where much Skype-supported “wheeling and dealing”, imprecations, and the gnashing of teeth with Major Power positioning occurred. Part 4 left the diplomatic element of the game behind and commenced describing preparations for the actual battles to come both in Europe and in North America (War of 1812).

Kindly note the following text and ensuing increments of this article series are, 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 supporting detail as needed. For now, kindly accept our apologies for having the rules behind this example of play remaining implicit. However, any quotes from the latest rules are indicated by italics.

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With that, we conclude this narrative of a Congress of Vienna example game turn with its War Phase Part II. This will explain the turn’s battles and when the smoke of warfare settles conclude with calculation of the turn’s Victory Points for each of the Major Powers: France (Jesús), Britain (Jim), Russia and its Prussia Ally (Dick), and the still neutral Austria (Marina). There is a lot of game action to describe, so no more prattling on by me! Take it away Frank and thank you for a most entertaining and informative article series!

Introduction by Congress of Vienna (CoV)’s Editor, Fred Schachter – To familiarize the InsideGMT audience of what designer Frank Esparrago accomplished with his fun and exciting Congress of Vienna game, now a GMT P-500 offering which has “Made the Cut” (thank you patrons, thank you so very much!); 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 as to how enjoyable, thought-provoking, and entertaining Congress of Vienna is! The first episode of this piece took readers through this example turn’s initial set-up with Parts 2 & 3 conveying a recapitulation of the game’s Diplomacy and Government Phases… where much Skype-supported “wheeling and dealing”, imprecations, and the gnashing of teeth  with Major Power positioning occurred.

Kindly note the following text and ensuing increments of this article series are, 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 mostly implicit. However, any quotes from the latest rules are indicated by italics.

Note: If you would like to view any of the below images in a larger size, you can click on the image and it will point you to the full image file.

With that, we resume this narrative of a Congress of Vienna example game turn as of its War Phase. This will take the remaining two parts of this five-part series, this first segment to cover preparations for the actual battles to come. Furthermore, to better explain the reasons why players conducted themselves as they did and provide related design notes; we feature remarks along those lines by Enrique Trigueros, our game observer. Hopefully, this new feature, introduced with Part 3 of 5, will be of continued help. There’s a lot of game action to describe, so no more prattling on by me! Take it away Frank!

Introduction by Congress of Vienna (CoV)’s Editor, Fred Schachter – To familiarize the InsideGMT audience of what designer Frank Esparrago accomplished 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 as to how enjoyable, thought-provoking, and entertaining Congress of Vienna is! The first episode of this piece took readers through this example turn’s initial set-up and Part 2 commenced a recapitulation of this game’s Diplomacy Phase… where much Skype-supported “wheeling and dealing” and Major Power positioning occurred.

Kindly note the following text and ensuing increments of this article series are, 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 mostly implicit. However, any quotes from the latest rules are indicated by italics.

Furthermore, to better explain the reasons why players conducted themselves as they did and provide related design notes; we’ll now feature remarks along those lines by Enrique Trigueros, our game observer. Hopefully, this new feature will be of help.

With that, we resume the narrative of this Congress of Vienna example game turn’s Diplomacy Phase. Take it away Frank!

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