Level 2 · 1 June 1853
The Great Demolition
- Turns
- 16 turns, a month each
- Map
- 12 districts
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The Revolution
The prefect has a map with straight red lines across it, and three of them run through the Cité, Saint-Marcel and the Temple. Every house in their path is to come down. Delay the works with lawyers and petitions, or with crowbars at night, and stop at least two of the three.
Objective
At turn 16, no more than 1 of the 3 planned boulevards finished
Stars
- Win the level
- Already meet the objective by turn 12
- Petitions only, no sabotage
The game's hint The works only advance while Engineers are on site. Petitions and sabotage add turns; Stop the Wreckers cancels a site outright. Each finished boulevard pushes families into the outer districts and raises Unrest there.
- Won
- The old streets stand
- Lost
- The new city
The Law
Baron Haussier has the emperor's plan and the banks behind him. Send your Engineers to the Cité, Saint-Marcel and the Temple and keep them on site until each boulevard is open. The displaced will be angry: finish all three with no district at 60 Unrest or more.
Objective
Finish the 3 planned boulevards with no district at 60+ Unrest
Stars
- Win the level
- Win within 12 turns
- No deportations
The game's hint Escort your Engineers and keep them in place. Sergents calm the districts the displaced move into. A boulevard caps barricades at level 1 and gives Cuirassiers +2 Strength.
- Won
- The new city
- Lost
- The old streets stand
Events
News that reaches both sides during the level. Each side answers for itself.
A new prefect
Baron Haussier, prefect of the Seine, has the emperor's map with the new boulevards drawn on it, and the banks have the money.
The Revolution
What happensThe prefect's financiers loyalty +6
The Law
What happensThe prefect's financiers loyalty +6
The Rue de Rivoli
The great street is pushed east past the Louvre. A thousand houses are down. The dust settles on the Marais for weeks.
The Revolution
What happensUnrest +4 in the workers' districts
The Law
What happensUnrest +4 in the workers' districts
The new banks
A new kind of bank lends to the works and is repaid by the rising value of the land along the boulevards.
The Revolution
What happensTreasury +80
The Law
What happensTreasury +80
After the level
After level 2 · 1 January 1860
The Last Street
The Revolution
One crooked street is left in the path of the new boulevard: a printer, a cobbler, forty families and a well from the time of the kings. The tenants ask what you will do.
- Save it as a symbolThe faubourgs +10 toward youOne old street is kept for good
- Relocate the families togetherWorkers' Associations loyalty +10
The Law
The last street in the path of the boulevard has forty families who refuse to leave. The prefect's lawyers ask what compensation to offer.
- Pay fair compensationTreasury −100Opinion +5
- Pay the legal minimumThe prefect's financiers loyalty +15
This level's booklet page
II. The Demolition
For seven years the prefect's wreckers worked from dawn. The Cité lost its alleys, Saint-Marcel its tanneries, the Temple its courtyards. The new boulevards were wide, straight and lit all night.
One way “The Great Demolition” can end
But two of the three red lines on the prefect's map stayed on the map. Lawyers, petitions and broken scaffolding held them back long enough for the money to move elsewhere.
Otherwise
All three were finished. The families who had lived in their path moved out to the edges of the city and paid twice the rent.
If the Revolution chose “Save it as a symbol”
One crooked street was saved, and it is still there, between two boulevards, with its well.
If the Revolution chose “Relocate the families together”
The families of the last street were moved together to the same courtyard in Belleville, and the association went with them.
If the Law chose “Pay fair compensation”
The prefect paid the last tenants fairly, which nobody had expected and nobody forgot.
Otherwise
The last tenants got the legal minimum and a cart for their furniture.