Groups. These are potential proxies for you to control in order to wage your secret war between each other.
Each group has an alignment, a nationality, Power, Resistance, income, and Treasury.
Alignment determines what the groups are. A similiar kind of a group will be able to control each other with more ease. A different kind of groups will not.
The types of groups include...
Governments... Opposed by Communist (government)...
Weird... Opposed by Conventional
Liberal... Opposed by Conservatives
Fanatics... Opposed by Other Fanatics...
Violent...Opposed by Peaceful
And Criminals... OPPOSED BY NONE MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Power indicates the amount of influence that the particular group has. More influence, more power. This means that you can use EVIL PLOTS to increase your groups' power. To win this game, you have to collect Power in various different continents and super powers.
Some groups may come with Transferable Powers. This means that these groups, instead of doing their own devilish little things, can transfer a certain percentage of their power to another group doing devilish things... FOR FREE! No devilish plots or explanations necessary!
Each group comes with a
Resistance. That is how entrenched their members usually are. Resistance is used to show how difficult it is for another secret society or a group to control them.
If the difference between the power level and the target's resistance is less than 2, then it is generally inadvisable to just plain directly attempt to control the group without doing anything else to weaken it before. It may lead to loss of several limbs.
Being close to the core secret society also increases a faction's resistance. A group directly controlled by the Illuminati have a resistance of +10 to their normal resistance. A group controlled by a proxy of the Illuminati have +5. Group controlled by proxy of a proxy have +2. The rest doesn't.
For example... let's say that the Russian Mafia attempts to control the IRS....
Russian Mafia: Criminal, European. Power 7. Resistance 6. Income: 5. Treasury 7. +4 IN ANY ATTEMPT TO DIRECTLY CONTROL ANOTHER CRIMINAL GROUP.
IRS: Criminal, Government. American. Power 5. Resistance 4. Income SPECIAL. Treasury 15. CAN TAX 2 MB FROM ANY GROUP
Both are criminal groups, so Mafia gets a +4 to their power when attempting to control the IRS. IRS is criminal, so the mafia gets an additional +4 power. Russian Mafia is European, so it rolls a -2 for different nationality penalty. So it has a 13 power against IRS's 4 resistance, which seem like a good enough deal. But the IRS's treasury is MASSIVE, with 15 MB inside. It may need some assistance by a good plot if they want to succeed in taking the IRS under their palms.
Some groups, such as Secret Society, have no Resistance. This means that these groups CANNOT POSSIBLE BE ATTACKED. BY ANYONE.
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Treasury and Income As hinted before, each Group has its own individual Treausry and individual Income. The money in the group's individual treasury can only be used to do their own little devilish plots or to protect themselves in case of an attack.
The main treasury controlled by your Secret Society, however, can be used to fund pretty much anything.
The money in the group's treasury can be transferred up the proxy network. However, some of the money is lost during every transference. Some groups, such as the Federal Reserve or the Swiss Bank, have special ability to negate this penalty when they are transferring money.
Proxies: Each group has a set number of proxies that it can control. Generally speaking, more influential the group is, more proxies it can control. Even a group with a weak Power can control up to three proxies, although it may struggle to keep the groups under control.
No groups, except for secret societies, may control more than three proxies at a same time. Secret Societies can control up to 4 proxies directly.
Evil Plots and Actions
Every turn, every group under your control may each perform one action, unless I specify otherwise. There are 4 generic actions that you could do...
Attack to Control: Your group will attempt to infiltrate, substitue, bribe, and blackmail their way into control of another group. *You may not perform this action if the group cannot control any more proxies* Attacking a group with same nationality and alignments will give a boost to the attacker's power, while different alignments and nationalities willl not.
Attack to Neutralize: Your group will attempt to assassinate the command structure of the rival Secret Society that controls another group, making that group become uncontrolled. *Your group may not perform this action if it cannot control any more proxies* This action follows the same rules as attack to control, except that the attacker gains a base +4 to his power.
Attack to Destroy: Your group will annhiliate another group by extreme force. *A group may perform this action at any time* This action follows the opposite rule as attack to control, which means that different alignments and nationalities give a boost to power. In addition, the target's resistance is based on his power ratings instead of his resistance ratings.
Power Structure Revision: A proxy under your control may move in your power structure to become another group's proxy... *Note: you may only do this twice every turn*
In addition to this, groups with a set amount of "Transferable Powers" may be able to aid another group do an Attack by adding the amount of transferable power they have to the power value of the aided group. This is done for free whereas, if you use a Plot by another group, you would have to pay some pretty pennies.
However, every group may do an action that is thematic to what they are by paying money from the Treasury. International Communist Conspiracy, for example, may be able to fund a communsit revolution in another country owned by a Government group. This is considered a Plot. Theoretically speaking, you can chain a plot by one of your proxy with a plot by another one of your proxies to cause... who knows?
Creating a New Group and Entrenching
You may use money and plots by other groups to create a new front for your organization. The new front is considered a new group with its own sets of alignment, nationalities, and abilities.
Alternatively, you could entrench your group to change its power, resistance, alignment, and even the number of proxies that you can control.
Updates will be done in news format by the IBS News, the world's conspiracies at your fingertip.
Every turn, the IBS news will reveal the stats of several groups that could be controlled by your Secret Society. You may attempt to take over groups that are not revealed by the IBS News, but you would essentially be shooting blind... and some groups may not be able to be controlled from the very beginning.
Of course, there are other ways to gain the stats of other groups.
ower 0. Resistance 3. Income 2. Peaceful. Liberal. European
