Prussia had a bad start. Out of nervousness, Manni moved Ferdinand out of supply and lost all of Ferndinand's 8 troops. France had not to play a single card for that. And Russia had many clubs, defeating Dohna in the Kammin area. So Prussia had to enter the Gollnow-position already in turn 6! The only good thing was that the Austrians sent their main army (3 generals, 23 troops) to Silesia, so that Prussia could afford not to play diamonds against the Austrians by vacating Saxony.

In Silesia, the dancing for good positions started in turn 4: Daun with 23 troops attacked Prince Heinrich (14 troops). The first two spades battles saw one minus-1 retreat on each side. But then, in turn 6, Sebastian decided to attack again the Prussians in Breslau. He chose Ohlau as attack position – a city with only one retreat path open! Manni equaled out the initial −9. And the tie was the final score since Austria had no spades left! In the next Prussian turn, Manni encircled and attackerd the monster stack. Although Sebastian had 4 reserves (Manni made big eyes!), this was not enough to save the day. Austria lost 23 troops, and Prussia had some calm turns in the south, with no fear of monster stack attacks.

Against France Manni made consequent use of a minus-1-retreat-strategy. The new thing: Hanover never played a TC in combat, but only for recruitment (by recruiting just so many troops that an automatic −1 would result as initial score). This strategy worked until the last turn, and drove Bernd out of his mind. It must be noted that France forgot to send a supply train to Stade, thus raising the recruitment costs from 6 to 8 points of TC. One handicap for Bernd was the early loss of America (turn 8).

Against Russia the Gollnow position was safe almost until game end as well. The early exit of Sweden helped a bit (turn 9). Two times Dohna dared to leave the diamonds sector in order to test the Russian clubs. The second time ended with a fulminant −10 retreat of Soltikow and Fermor. Right after that battle victory, Russia dropped out (turn 15).

Soon before that, the first Prussian subsidy reduction had occurred (Lord Bute, turn 13).
The only danger for Manni between turn 7 and 14 were on two fronts: a) the chess clock (after turn 11, Prussia was down to 55 minutes left, while the attackers still had 105 minutes); b) the Imperial army: After the desaster in Silesia, Sebastian had switched over perfectly fast to an Imperial win strategy. The imperial general "Hildi" conquered fst 7 cities. A Prussian intervention in the central Saxon diamonds sector was not possible due to the importance of the Gollnow defense. Between turn 10 and 14, there wer a lot of wonderful tactical maneuvers and finesses: Imperials, French, Austrians, Prussians, all these nations crowded the Halle-Magdeburg area. After turn 11 the composer Händel died, and this gave the Prussians a wonderful breathing space on the city of Halle. Soon after that the Imperial Army switched players due to the dropout of Russia, and the Imperial danger was gone then, too.

Austria moved back to Silesia very fast then. Attack after attack, but no decisive victory. Then Poems showed up, the second subsidy reduction (turn 17). But strategically nothing changed . France moved his generals – already quite frustrated by the Hanover style of playing – to central Saxony. The Austrians made one last big push in Silesia, but in vain. And after turn 18, India was lost for France. The game was over, Manni won with Prussia!