In the South, Manni starts with a zone defense. He retreats again and again from the quickly advancing 3-generals stack of Austria. This strategy costs him quite many diamonds TCs. The Imperial Army is not blocked in its campaign at the beginning, but in turn 7 it is defeated in battle and sent off-map. At that point Austria has already taken all Saxon objectives. Silesia was very calm in the beginning.

Against Russia, Prussia defended with the well-known Runaway-Lehwaldt strategy. Rafa invaded East Prussia with 3 Russian generals, but never dared to attack Lehwaldt. The fourth Russian general was roaming the Neumark, like a pendulum marching north and south. Hitting Saxony or Silesia was threatened once or twice, but never exectued. When Sweden exited the game (turn 6), Manni removed Lehwaldt, and so the Russian main army had a long time of marching, until it could meet the Prussians again: On turn 12, Russia made her first attack.

France was making very good progress right from the start. Even Halberstadt was conquered in turn 5. But after that Manni had established a triangle-defense. The French generals had to unstack and then this theater became very stable.

While the Russians were marching towards the Kammin area, Manni succeeded in hunting down the Austrian supply trains. This caused Daniel Jensen some supply troubles and the loss of two Saxon objectives. After turn 12, the Austrian campaign concentrated on Silesia. All players had collected quite a huge deck of TCs, since Manni avoided the big battles in a very clever way.

After turn 11, America showed up, and with turn 14 it was all over for France. Daniel Dunbring was not able to break the Magdeburg hearts defense. But, an unnecessary hearts attack against Hannover (in turn 9) which costed France 34 points in hearts, did not help either! Daniel then took over the Imperial Army, but was not able to achieve very much with it.

In the meantime, the Russian hordes had fought some clubs battles. But they never had enough. Rafa did not make use of his troops superiority. Instead, he quite often attacked inferior in troops. Even the Prussian subsidy in turn 15 and 17 did not change the tide. Daniel Jensen's Austrians were attacking again and again the Prussian troops at Breslau, but Manni never seemed to run out of spades. And, when he finally started to run out (turn 21), he countered that with a clever re-tuning of his defense: The Prussian stack swarmed out, protecting vital objectives from the sector borders.

The Tsarins died with the last fate card in turn 23. And so, Manni Wichmann became the 8th Friedrich World Champion! — He is the first to win the final for a second time! Mann was FWC champion in 2011. In the years 2009 and 2012, he became Friedrich-Grandmaster. All of this 4 final games, he played as Prussia. Quite an impressive count!