Level 5 · 15 July 1792
The Palace Falls
- Turns
- 12 turns, a week each
- Map
- 12 districts
Chapter 2: Year of FireSealed so it does not spoil the story for you.Break the seal
The Revolution
The foreign armies have threatened to burn Paris if the royal family is touched. The sections have answered by marching. Take the Tuileries.
Objective
Take the Louvre and Tuileries
Stars
- Win the level
- Win within 9 turns
- None of the defenders killed
- Won
- The palace falls
- Lost
- The palace holds
The Law
The faubourgs are marching on the palace. Hold the Tuileries with the Swiss, and keep at least some of the Citizen Guard on your side when it is over.
Objective
Hold the palace and keep at least one Citizen Guard company
Stars
- Win the level
- Already meet the objective by turn 9
- Never give the Volley Order
- Won
- The palace holds
- Lost
- The palace falls
Events
News that reaches both sides during the level. Each side answers for itself.
The foreign manifesto
The commander of the foreign armies promises to destroy Paris if the royal family is harmed. Nothing could have made the sections angrier.
The Revolution
What happensOpinion +8Foreign Powers +10 toward the Law
The Law
What happensOpinion −8Foreign Powers +10 toward you
The tocsin rings
All night the bells of the sections ring the tocsin. At dawn the faubourgs march on the Tuileries.
The Revolution
What happensUnrest +15 in Louvre
The Law
What happensUnrest +15 in Louvre
After the level
After level 5 · 10 August 1792
The Swiss
The Revolution
The Swiss have thrown down their muskets on the palace steps. The crowd is looking at you.
- Spare themModerates loyalty +15Violence −5
- No quarterMountain loyalty +15Violence +10
The Law
The palace is lost. The royal family can flee to the Assembly, or the Swiss can hold the stairs to the last.
- Escape to the AssemblyLegitimacy +10
- A last standGuards loyalty +15
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V. The Palace Falls
On the tenth of August the tocsin rang all night, and at dawn the faubourgs marched on the Tuileries with the Marseillais singing at their head.
If the Revolution won
By noon the palace was taken and the monarchy with it. The king and his family were locked in a tower of the Temple.
Otherwise
The Swiss held the staircases and the faubourgs fell back. The monarchy had survived another day, which was all it could hope for now.
If the Revolution chose “Spare them”, or If the Law chose “Escape to the Assembly”
The Swiss who threw down their arms were spared and led away through the crowd. Some of them lived to tell it.
Otherwise
The Swiss were killed on the staircases where they stood. A stone lion in Lucerne remembers them.