Level 3 · 13 July 1788
Hail and Hunger
- Turns
- 14 turns, a week each
- Map
- 12 districts
The Revolution
The hail flattened the wheat from here to Chartres. By autumn a loaf will cost a day's wage. Madame Arnaud says hunger is louder than any pamphlet. Make the faubourgs heard.
Objective
Push 4 districts past 70 Unrest at the same time
Stars
- Win the level
- Win within 10 turns
- Win without starting a riot
- Won
- The faubourgs rise
- Lost
- Hunger stays quiet
The Law
The harvest is gone and the price of bread will climb all winter. Keep the faubourgs fed, watched and calm. If too many districts boil at once, the city slips out of the king's hand.
Objective
Never more than 2 districts at 70+ Unrest at the end of a turn, from turn 7 to 14
Stars
- Win the level
- Already meet the objective by turn 10
- Never use the Royal Guard
- Won
- The bread holds
- Lost
- The faubourgs rise
Events
News that reaches both sides during the level. Each side answers for itself.
Hail flattens the harvest
A storm of hail as big as walnuts has crossed the north of France. The wheat is gone from here to Chartres. Bakers are already raising prices.
The Revolution
What happensUnrest +4 in the workers' districts
The Law
What happensUnrest +4 in the workers' districts
After the level
After level 3 · 1 September 1788
The Baker's Daughter
The Revolution
Her father hid the flour. She came to the Lodge anyway, and she knows every baker in the faubourg. What do you do with what she told you?
- Expose the bakerRadicals loyalty +10Merchants −10 toward you
- Recruit her insteadA free Agitator in Saint-Marcel
The Law
A baker in Saint-Marcel hoards flour while the queue runs down the street. Fine him, and bread gets cheaper, or protect him, and the merchants remember.
- Fine the bakerBread Price −1
- Protect himMerchants +15 toward you
This level's booklet page
III. Hail and Hunger
The storm came on the thirteenth of July and left nothing standing between Paris and the Loire. By the feast of Saint Louis the price of a loaf had doubled, and the queues outside the bakeries of Saint-Marcel began before the bells.
If the Revolution won
By September four quarters of the city were ready to boil over at once, and the police knew it.
Otherwise
The Watch and the bread doles held the line. The faubourgs grumbled through the autumn, but they did not rise together.
If the Revolution chose “Expose the baker”
We printed the name of the baker who hid the flour. The crowd did the rest, and the merchants never forgave us.
If the Revolution chose “Recruit her instead”
It was the baker's own daughter who came to the Lodge that night. Madame Arnaud did not expose the man. She hired the girl, and by September every oven in the faubourg had a friend of ours beside it.
If the Law chose “Fine the baker”
The lieutenant fined the baker in public, and for a week the price fell by a sou.
Otherwise
The Crown protected the baker, and the grain merchants of the Halles remembered who their friends were.