The Scope and Duration of the Campaign

The Campaign makes provision for a maximum of seven participants representing Austria, England, France Prussia, Russia, Sweden and Turkey. If necessary Sweden and Turkey can be omitted. At the time of posting six of the seven original participants have responded to the invitation to the second campaign. Nationalities will be determined by lot, with no player having the same country as last time.

The campaign can finish any time from its tenth move onwards. Each move is split into a number of phases and experience in the previous campaign has shown that a full move can take four to six weeks in real time to complete with the main variable being arranging any required tabletop games.  When the campaign ends the player with the greatest economic value of territory held is the winner. In this calculation Turkey and Sweden are given 5 and 10 points respectively to recognise their disadvantageous geographical position.