Warning!: You need to have installed the CivII: Fantastic Worlds
disk for this scenario to work! 

SPANISH CIVIL WAR: THE DEFENSE OF MADRID (version 2.0)
A scenario dedicated to the volunteers of the International Brigades

by Jess Balsinde (jbalsinde@ucsd.edu)

June 24, 1998 


(v1.0 released Jan 21, 1998)
(v1.1 released Feb 16, 1998)


"The Moors who came with Franco want to enter Madrid
but as along as there are militiamen, the Moors will never pass"
		Republican Song


"Never forget, Madrid, the war; never forget that out there
the eyes of the enemy glance at you with the look of Death"
		Rafael Alberti, "Ballad of the Defense of Madrid"




WHAT'S NEW?

Many things. Hope I do not forget to list the most important! In the first
place, I think now the Nationalists are more powerful or, if you like it the
other way around, the Republicans are weaker.

a) New unit icons for some pre-existing units. A brand-new unit: the Assault
Guards, Republican-only.

b) New WoWs. In this scenario the WoWs do not play an essential role but they
add feeling! Some of the new WoWs come from nmy previous scenarios. One other,
La Mota Castle, is brand-new. 

c) The intro text file is all new. Now a fragment of the farewell speech of 
Dolores Ibrruri to the International Brigades introduces the scenario. These
fragments, particularly the last one, are really beautiful, so please read 
them carefully. The former introductory sentences have been included at the 
beginning of this document (I liked them!).

d) The color of the pop-up boxes is changed.

e) All buildable units are now listed in the Civilopedia. The only units that
you will not find in there are those which cannot be built (German Nazis, 
Italian Fascists, and Intl. Brigades). These appear only via the events.txt.

f) Republican armament is more expensive to build now; Nationalist armament 
is however cheaper. In addition, the Nationalists have now tons of money. Two
necessary modifications to preserve the historical perspective.

g) SAMs have been removed. Not in use in 1936!!!

h) No more wandering of Portuguese units thru the peninsula.

i) The Republicans are now set as protagonists.



BACKGROUND

In the dawn of July 17, 1936, the garrison of Morocco (then a Spanish 
possession), rebels under the leadership of General Francisco Franco, and 
this is followed by military risings throughout mainland Spain. Within a few
days, Franco's Moorish troops and legionnaires are at the gates of Madrid. At
first, the European powers agree to adopt an attitude of non-intervention. 
However, the Spanish Civil War soon ceases to be a strictly Spanish affair 
when large contingents of men, arms and equipment pour into Spain from all 
sides. The rebels, autoproclaimed "Nationalists" receive considerable military
aid from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, without which they would have never 
won the war. The legitimate government of Spain, left alone by the European 
democracies, turns his sights into the USSR, from which it obtains materials
and equipment. Manpower comes in the form of International Brigades (some 
35,000 men), who volunteer from all around the world to come to Spain to 
fight against Fascism. After the initial successes of the Nationalists, the 
territories held by both sides are roughly equal in extent. The continuous 
attempts of Franco to storm Madrid and cut its railroad communications with 
Valencia and the Mediterranean sea repeatedly fail. But it is only a matter 
of time. After three years of heroic resistance, with shortenings of 
everything, Madrid falls. With the fall of Madrid, the Republican forces 
capitulate. On April 1, 1939, the war is over and Franco installs himself as
"Caudillo" and "savior" of Spain. The victory, but not the peace, begins.



INSTALLATION

As indicated above, this scenario will only work with Civ2 version 2.7.81, 
i.e the one provided by the Fantastic Worlds scenario disk. Make a new folder
under the Scenarios folder. Call it "Madrid" and put all the files in it 
except those files with extension .wav. Inside the "Madrid" folder make a 
sub-folder called "Sound" and place all the .wav files in it. Now just play. 




THE PLAYERS & SOME STRATEGY TIPS

This is (or tries to be) a 100% historically accurate scenario. That is, I 
have set up the things for them to occur as close as possible to historical 
reality. I am assuming here that you have decided to play with the 
Republicans. Well done, that is the right choice to make. Your first, second,
third and last priority is to defend Madrid. If you lose Madrid, you lose 
everything. Right at the beginning of the scenario, your foreign advisor (F3)
tells you that Republican power is supreme. Nonsense. Soon you will be 
overwhelmed by the Nationalist troops, which are more and better than yours.
Try to hold on the belt of cities around Madrid (Brunete, Guadalajara and 
Cuenca). Any of them will eventually fall. When this happens, Madrid will be
under continuous attack, especially if the city that falls is Brunete. 

Dedicate your initial war efforts to control the Ebro Valley. This means
conquering the cities of Belchite, Zaragoza, Vitoria and Pamplona. This way 
you should be able to establish safe routes between Catalonia and Madrid. 

Keep always controlled the railroad connecting Valencia and Madrid. There are
resourceful cities along the Southern Mediterranean coast whose troops may 
alleviate the pressure on Madrid. 

That's all I am giving away... I told you, this is 100% historically accurate.

If you decide to play with the Nationalists, let me warn you that it will not
be much fun.

It is absolutely pointless to choose the Portuguese. Remember, this is a 
Spanish Civil War scenario. Moreover, the Portuguese units do not move 
anymore. The Portuguese are included only for the sake of historical accuracy. 




RULES & VICTORY CONDITIONS

Research progresses at a 155/10 rate. Do not even bother. Besides, nothing 
that you can research would give you any benefit. This scenario is an all-out
war, you are supposed to have what you need to win at the start of the scenario. 
No technology is obtained from conquest.

Also there is no point in building city improvements; you should dedicate 
every resource to the war effort. No Wonders are available for building; all 
are already built. All of them, except Puerta de Alcal (formerly Cervantes'
Theater), San Lorenzo's Monastery, Plaza Mayor, and Cave Paintings, are 
obsolete at the beginning of the scenario (I needed these four wonders to 
keep the Republican men and women happy and willing to fight!).

No diplomatic talks are allowed in this scenario. The Nationalists and 
Republicans are always at war with each other. Nationalists and Portuguese 
are allies (but do not talk to each other). No government switching is 
allowed. The Republicans are a "Democracy", the Nationalists have a Fascist 
government (Fundamentalism), and the Portuguese are a "Monarchy".  

This is an Objectives Scenario. There are 90 objectives (cities plus Wonders).
In the beginning the Republicans control 42 of these and the Nationalists 
control the remaining 48. The Republicans need 80 objectives to achieve a 
decisive victory, and 69 to achieve a marginal victory. 49 objectives is a 
Republican marginal defeat, and 35 is a Republican decisive defeat. It is 
perfectly possible to achieve a decisive victory playing with the Republicans,
but it is not easy. Remember however that if you lose Madrid, nothing else 
matters, you have lost everything. Uh! Almost forgot; the scenario is designed
for play at Deity level only.

The scenario begins July 1936 and ends April 1939. There is a total of 33 
turns (only).

These are the cities that are considered objectives and the number of points
they are worth each:

REPUBLICANS 			NATIONALISTS
Madrid (x7)			Sevilla (x6)
Valencia (capital) (x4)		Burgos (capital) (x5)
Teruel (x4)			Oviedo (x4)
Barcelona (x4)			Toledo (x4)
Bilbao (x4)			Crdoba (x4)
Brunete (x3)			La Corua (x4)
Tarragona (x2)			Zaragoza (x4)
Santander (x2)			Segovia (x2)
Almera (x2)			Avila (x2)
Guadalajara (x1)		Valladolid (x2)
Albacete (x1)			Huelva (x2)
Cuenca (x1)			Cdiz (x2)
Murcia (x1)			Valladolid (x1)
Alicante (x1)			Len (x1)
Castelln (x1)			Algeciras (x1)
Gerona (x1)			Santiago (x1)
Lrida (x1)			Palma (x1)
Huesca (x1)			Granada (x1)
San Sebastin (x1)		Belchite (x1)
				Pamplona (x1)



THE TITLE.GIF

The title.gif is an actual poster of the war, issued by the Republican Office
of Propaganda. It depicts the Republic (always represented as a woman dressed
in Greco-Roman style, wearing the Mural Crown) who holds the right arm of the
Republican soldier in the left. An International Brigadist is shown in the 
right. The legend says: "The International Brigadists, together with the 
Spaniards, fight against the invaders". The background, red-yellow-purple, is
the Republican flag, the official one of Spain until Franco changed it to the
red-yellow-red, which symbolizes the monarchy and is still in use today.



THANKYOUS

The map used in this scenario was made by Pedro Lpez Rodrguez. The Stukas 
and Transport units are from Steven (The Fascist Patch). The rabbit terrain 
icon is from Frdric Meuni. The Biplane icon is from Mats Georgson. The 
Panzer icon is from Michael H. Nielsen. The Russian tank (Republican) is from
Harlan Thompson. The Nationalist and Portuguese flags are from Mike McCart 
(slightly adapted by me). I am sorry, I cannot remember where I took the Nazi
unit from. If it is yours let me know, so I can write your name here.

The rest of new units and new graphics were either done by me or adapted from
other Microprose scenarios. If you want to use any of the units I've created/
modified, please go ahead, but give written credit, (that is, acknowledge 
their origin somewhere in a text file just like I have done here with the 
work by others), and do not remove my initials (JBR) from the graphics!

Finally I would like to warmly thank those civvers who downloaded this 
scenario from the net and bothered to send me comments and suggestions. 



THE SAGA CONTINUES

"Spanish Civil War" is the second installment of my collection of Civ2 
scenarios dedicated to Spain's history. The others are: "Spanish Pride/Iberian
Pride", "The Visigoths", "The Conquest of Mexico", "Al-Andalus", and "The Time
of Thunder". All of them are now available for download at several websites. 
You can also contact me by e-mail requesting any of them.
