The Game started with a typical "Telle-opening": An early hunt on the Imperial army, with perfect delaying positional play in the other theatres. The Imperial Army was attacked in turn 3, but could retreat by 2. The immediate following counterattack of the Austrians blew the Prussian Winterfeldt from Marktredwitz and off the board (but he had only 1 army, so no big disaster for Prussia). In the main Austrian theatres of operations there was no big action so far: Cautious manoevering on both sides. More and more an unbelievable Austrian weakness in diamonds shaped out, though.

In the meantime, the French advanced with enormous pressure and conquered Central Hanover. Soubise followed Cumberland (who operated at the French flanks) into deep Saxony. In turn 5, Cumberland was encircled in a truly brilliant Austrian-Imperial-French cooperative campaign and wenn off-map..

Also in turn 5, Steffen Schröder's Russians succeeded to pin Lehwaldt in East-Prussia, defeating him totally. Russia now concentrated on Kammin and the Neumark area, both of which were defended by Anton with a masterful positional play (repeated switches from clubs to spades and vice versa).

When Josef Gundel realized that his chances in Saxony were not existant, he began a long march: Three Austrian Generals plus one supply train were sent via Lusitia towards Berlin and from there to Magdeburg, where they finally arrived at around turn 14. — Maybe it was Anton's only mistake (in an otherwise masterfully perfect game!) that he did nothing but watch this long march. Josef's plan was to bring some changes into the stalemated situation, since Anton's Prussian TC deck has grown to about 60 cards in the meantime. If Anton would start to move out of Saxony to stop the Austrian march, Josef would have a chance to fight him in other suits than diamonds.

Meanwhile, Russia and Sweden had dropped out (turn 11 and 12, respectivly), and the Prussian subsidies were shortend in turn 15 and 16.

In turn 9, France had crushed Hanover totally: After 2 diamond battles near Stade, both Hanoverians went off-map. However, with some very clever and tricky recruitments and retreats, the Hanoverian general Ferdinand managed to gain some manoever space again ion turn 15, and he began to threaten the Austrian supply train near Berlin.

Now the game was on the razor's edge of the Austrian supply situation: If Prussia/Hanover would succeed to eliminate the Austrian supply train, before the Austrian were able to throw their troops into battle in the Magdeburg area, Prussia would surely win. The Austrian supply situation finally became hopeless after the Prussian general Keith re-entered the game in Berlin (turn 17).

But this was too late! France was already close to victory, and the Austrians clocked several key-cities needed for the protection of Magdeburg. In a final desperate attack, Anton tried to break through the phalanx of Austrians to relieve the siege of Magdeburg: Anton played 130 points of diamonds against 141 Austrian points of hearts, but lost. In the final battle for Magdeburg, France defeated Prince Heinrich, and so Magdeburg was conquered. And Bernd Preiß became Friedrich-World-Champion!