It is April, 1757, and the armies of central Europe are rumbling into position.
Prussia has established itself in stolen Silesia and conquered Saxony, ready to extend its pincers into Bohemia. Frederick himself commands the main force of blue-coated regulars massed in occupied (but none the less scintillating) Dresden.
Austria brings its polyglot legions together under the banner of the double eagle. Led by the brave and worthy Prince Charles of Lotharingia (it helps if your brother is married to the empress, almost as much as having married her sister yourself), it will doubtless defend the Hapsburg homeland doughtily.
