Level 5 · 23 March 1918
The Long Gun
- Turns
- 14 turns, a week each
- Map
- 20 districts
Chapter 7: Home FiresSealed so it does not spoil the story for you.Break the seal
The Revolution
Shells fall on Paris from a gun no one can see. Collect 100 peace petition points: each Pacifist Speaker adds 1 a turn, and a peace meeting adds 3 (once per district each turn) but may get the speaker noticed by the police.
Objective
Collect 100 peace petition points
Stars
- Win the level
- Win within 10 turns
- No secrets sold
The game's hint Meetings bring in more than speakers do, but a speaker noted at a meeting can be arrested. Spread your speakers out: the police hunt the ones they have seen.
- Won
- Paris signs for peace
- Lost
- Paris holds
The Law
The long-range gun and the night raids hit a district most turns. Have the Sacred Union at 50 or more and Output at the quota when week 14 ends. Shelters halve the damage; a shelter in all four factory districts wins the clean star.
Objective
Sacred Union 50 or more and Output at quota at turn 14
Stars
- Win the level
- Already meet the objective by turn 10
- Shelters in all factory districts
The game's hint Arrest the speakers you have seen; Mail Censorship finds more. Rally the city every turn: telegrams and shells keep eating the Sacred Union.
- Won
- Paris holds
- Lost
- Paris signs for peace
Events
News that reaches both sides during the level. Each side answers for itself.
Shells from nowhere
Explosions in the streets of Paris, and no aircraft in the sky. The gun is more than a hundred kilometres away.
The Revolution
What happensSacred Union −3
The Law
What happensSacred Union −3
Good Friday
A shell hits the church of Saint-Gervais during the service and the vault comes down on the congregation.
The Revolution
What happensUnrest +10 in MaraisSacred Union +4
The Law
What happensUnrest +10 in MaraisSacred Union +4
The spring offensive
The enemy has broken through on the Somme. The front is moving toward Paris again.
The Revolution
What happensSacred Union −8
The Law
What happensSacred Union −8
The Americans
American divisions enter the line: fresh men, by the hundred thousand.
The Revolution
What happensSacred Union +6Allies +8 toward the Law
The Law
What happensSacred Union +6Allies +8 toward you
After the level
After level 5 · 29 March 1918
Good Friday
The Revolution
A shell hit the church of Saint-Gervais during the Good Friday service. The whole city is in mourning.
- Pause the campaignOpinion +5Unrest −10 in some districts
- Make use of itShop-floor militants loyalty +10Opinion −5
The Law
A shell hit the church of Saint-Gervais during the Good Friday service. The ministers ask what to say.
- Call a day of mourningOpinion +5Unrest −10 in some districts
- Make use of itArmy loyalty +10Opinion −5
This level's booklet page
The Long Gun
In the spring of 1918 shells began to fall on Paris from a gun more than a hundred kilometres away.
If the Revolution won
The peace petition filled notebook after notebook, signed in queues and cellars.
Otherwise
Paris went down to the cellars when the sirens sounded, and came up again, and kept working.
If the Revolution chose “Pause the campaign”
On Good Friday a shell fell on the church of Saint-Gervais, and for one day nobody made politics of it.
If the Law chose “Call a day of mourning”
On Good Friday a shell fell on the church of Saint-Gervais, and for one day nobody made politics of it.
Otherwise
On Good Friday a shell fell on the church of Saint-Gervais, and by evening both sides had made posters of it.