Iron and Blood 4: Powerplay - Game Thread

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"If you wish for peace, prepare for war"

This message is sent to all battlefield commanders from GM Headquarters.

The following is a briefing on current rules of engagement, with guidance on the utilisation of the military and economic resources at your disposal. Please read and absorb thoroughly.

New directives have been dispatched. Please review and note any changes.

Time

Iron and Blood 4: Powerplay is turn-based, with a turn representing three months. At the end of each turn, Headquarters will update the thread with battle results, new events, recalculated income and research progress, etc.

Orders and Communication

Orders to GM Headquarters may be provided in thread or through private channels. Please include all spending, military movements, response to events, etc in your order. The latest order will always override any previous order. If orders are provided in thread, please place in bold and blue text.

Notify Headquarters of all correspondences, secret or otherwise, within and between countries.

Events

Each turn, there will be events with various effects on a country, depending on the country’s fortunes and roleplaying. Effects include but not limited to IC or research or combat bonuses, or penalties, or revolts.

Provinces

The map is divided into 90 land provinces and 30 sea zones. Land provinces are identified by name, and sea zones by numbers.

There are three types of special provinces:

Capital province – the province that the capital city is located in. Defenders here receive an automatic 100% strength bonus (see below for description of War and Combat)

Occupied provinces – provinces owned by a foreign country but under the military occupation by another, typically due to conquest. Defenders here receive an automatic 25% strength penalty, due to partisan activity. If the province is also a core of a hostile country, defenders receive an automatic 50% strength penalty. The occupied province status will end once the province is retaken by its rightful owner, or legally transferred to a new owner by treaty or surrender.

Rebel provinces – indicated by a black-red rebel flag, these provinces are in revolt; their resources are at disposal of the rebel forces and denied to the legal owner of the province. No automatic combat bonuses or penalties apply when fighting in these provinces regardless of their status as core or capital provinces.

Industrial Capacity (IC)

Industrial capacity is the sum total of economic output of a country in a turn. It can be thought of as a currency. It is primarily earned from controlling territories, each of which has a factory icon showing how many IC it provides. This is known as “Base IC”. IC earned from transfers, bonuses or modifiers is “Bonus IC”.

IC can be transferred between countries as aid; which will arrive the turn after it is sent, assuming there’s a viable, non-blockaded route to their capital. IC cannot be banked; IC must be allocated in the turn it is produced, or it is wasted.

Research

Each turn, IC can be allocated towards researching new technologies. There are discrete levels of technology, each of which will cost slightly more than the last. Each level will increase the strength of each of your military unit by one. Research investment is cumulative: it is possible to spend a small amount of IC each turn until the goal is reached.

Additionally, you may choose one bonus effect for each new level researched, the details of which can be expanded through roleplay. The effect is subject to Headquarters approval, and may include, but not limited to, administrative innovation to enhance central control and reduce revolt risk, increase in industrial production, enhancing unit capability on the battlefield, and new fortifications to improve defence.

Espionage

Each country can conduct only ONE mission per turn, and each will cost a certain amount IC (recalculated at the beginning of each turn). You can also spend an amount of IC per turn for counter-espionage. The success of a mission will depend on the amount of IC you spend on the mission versus the amount your target spends on counter-espionage.

A list of currently available espionage options, in order of least costly to most costly. Espionage and counter-espionage spending is NOT cumulative and will be reset to zero each turn.

Investigate province (gives a bonus to combat in the province)
Sabotage production (disrupt production of a military unit or damage IC)
Steal war plans (reveal secret communications)
Smear reputation (smear campaign against a country’s stability or legitimacy)
Steal technology (obtain another country’s existing bonus or research progress)
Encourage rebellion (encourage revolt or fund an existing revolt)
Launch coup d’etat (overthrow government of a country)

Stability and legitimacy

Stability represents how secure a government is in power, rated from zero to five. Stability cost is the IC cost necessary to raise stability by one level, recalculated at the beginning of each turn. Stability spending is NOT cumulative and will be reset to zero each turn. A low stability lower production and raise revolt risk considerably. Events may reduce or increase stability.

Legitimacy represents how a government is viewed by the populace and by the international community. If the country engages in morally questionable pursuits, such as suppression of dissidents, war crimes, betraying allies, or declaring war against peaceful regimes, legitimacy will decrease. Like stability, legitimacy is rated from zero to five. Low legitimacy raises revolt risk and makes it easier for other countries to attack.

Land Combat

Ground units are represented by divisions, each with a strength value, an integrity value, and an air defence value, though they also have different bonuses depending on technology, events, roleplaying, etc. (Each division is said to also include armored support and air support)

Strength represents the firepower of a unit, and determines whether a force will win a battle. In a battle, the strengths of the two sides are calculated and compared; the side with the higher strength wins the battle and controls the province the battle is being fought for.

Integrity represents the organisation of a unit, and determines if a unit will survive the battle. It is represented as a percentage chance that a unit will retreat from a given battle in the event of a defeat.

Units are NOT in a national pool; they are stationed on the map. Each unit can move one province each turn.

When going to battle, each participant should submit a war plan. Bonuses will be given according to how effective the war plan is; whether enemy action was anticipated, whether contingencies are accounted for, whether supply lines are protected, whether terrain is favourable, and so on. For instance, if in a war plan enemy forces were to be encircled, and the enemy forces in their war plans were in a position to be encircled, the encircled forces are penalised in strength, and if they lose the battle, the encircled forces cannot retreat regardless of their integrity ratings.

Each division costs 1 IC of upkeep per turn.

Naval Combat

Naval combat is similar to land combat but with important differences. There are three types of naval units: in order of cost, submarines, battleships, and aircraft carriers. Submarines have high integrity, battleships have high strength but low integrity, and carriers lower the integrity of other ships in the battle, though they are defenceless on their own if air units are not assigned to them (see Airpower section below for more details). Each unit represents one ship, to which commanders may choose to assign names (assume battleships come attached with destroyer and cruiser escorts).

Naval warfare works similar to land combat, including aspects such as strength, integrity, and war plans. Naval units are stationed in a sea zone, and can move one sea zone per a turn. However, they cannot move into a sea zone that lacks an adjacent province controlled by a friendly country.

Naval units can blockade, preventing enemy transports from crossing, and potentially lowering IC income by obstructing trade. If the capital is blockaded they also prevent IC aid from reaching a country. Units may be transferred to another country’s control or disbanded at any time.

Each ship costs 1 IC of upkeep per turn.

Airpower

Aircrafts are divided into two types: fighters and bombers.

Air units are based in a province and can operate in that province or surrounding provinces or sea zones (islands close enough to nearby provinces are considered "surrounding provinces", eg British Isles and France/Netherlands.). Air units may also be based on carriers (one air unit to one carrier).

Bombers can be used to bomb ground troops or ships or used to bomb IC. They are defenceless and needed to be escorted by fighters. Air battles will be calculated before land or naval battles; only the bombers that survives the air battles, and only in the event that their fighter escorts win the dogfight, will participate in the land or naval battles. In naval or land battles, bombers count as a land or naval unit, but will return to their base province/carrier once the battle is over (unlike normal units which move into the province in the event of victory).

Aircrafts can be rebased but will lose a turn in the process.

Each unit costs 1 IC of upkeep per turn.

Nuclear weapons

Some scientists believe it is possible to harness the power of the atom for immense destructive capabilities. If this is true, it is not practical at present time or possibly any time in the near future and thus this matter will not be discussed at this stage.
 
Turn Zero​

Commanders, please allocate national resources:

Each country starts with 50 factories, providing a base IC of 50 and, just for this turn, a bonus IC of 50. For this turn you can spend this only on factories and military units.

An additional factory costs 5 IC
A division costs 1 IC
A submarine costs 3 IC
A battleship costs 5 IC
A carrier costs 6 IC
A fighter squadron costs 2 IC
A bomber squadron costs 2 IC

Please place units and factories in your provinces.

Additionally, please broadly indicate the policy of your country with regards to:

Low political rights v high political rights
Social liberalism v social conservatism
Low economic freedom v high economic freedom
Belligerent foreign policy v peaceful foreign policy
Interventionism v Isolationism
Offensive focus v defensive focus
Army focus v navy focus v airpower focus

The map:

Spoiler :
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At last! It's happening! YAAAY! :D
 
Der Großdeutsches Reich is here!

Low Political Rights
Social Conservatism
Low Economic Freedom
Belligerent Foreign Policy
Interventionism
Offensive Focus
Army Focus


Small error on the map methinks; I believe I designated my capital as Königsberg
 
Portuguese Empire

High political rights
Social liberalism
High economic freedom
Belligerent foreign policy
Interventionism
Offensive focus
Airpower focus
 
EOTS
Eastern Oceans Trading Sphere

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The Three Naval and Economic powers of the world,The Empire of Portugal, Port of Hadley and the Empire of Japan, saw it was in their mutual interest to form a strong alliance to maintain peace and prosperity in the "Warm Oceans of the East". The Portuguese Emperor (then Prince) Nedim I met with Lady Sarah Hadley and Emperor Hirohito to discuss a better world. In 1924 the alliance was officially created with the Ceylon accord. The Accord was dubbed the League of Neptune. The main articles of the accord are:
1. Mandatory mutual defense
2. Protected Trade
3. The maintenance of peace and prosperity in the region
 
Empire of France:

High political rights
Social liberalism
High economic freedom
Peaceful foreign policy
Interventionism
Defensive focus
Army focus
 
From France
To Portugal:


We would like to remind you that before a long time, we had signed a NAP. We wish to expand this and offer you a Defensive Military Alliance.
 
From Portugal
To France:


We wish for the NAP to continue, but we cannot accept a Defensive Military alliance at this time.
 
Portugal is so obviously confused...
 
Free trade was definitely not part of the mandate of the EOTS. One of the big parts of it was ensuring that all Indian produced goods had the correct Port Hadley tariffs attached to them.

To quote from the old thread
Mandate: The agreement was one by which Japan and Portugal, through Port Hadley, extended an alliance to one another. The mandate was mainly one of trading, the correct tariffs (Port Hadley was always big on tariffs...) and laying down laws regarding illegal goods and trading regulation. There were also some subtle and couldbeinterpretedanysortofway clauses between Japan and Portugal regarding the expansion of Portuguese trading interests into East Asia.


Edit: It was also founded in 1924 at the Port Hadley 1924 Regional Trade Conference, not in 1929 nor in Seychelles
 
The USE is here!

High political rights
Social liberalism
Medium economic freedom
Peaceful foreign policy
Interventionism
Offensive focus
Airpower focus

OOC: I will be able to do serious RP this Thusday: alas essay hand in week this week but I wish to report for this grand work of art.
 
Low political rights
Social conservatism
Low economic freedom
Belligerent foreign policy
Isolationism
Offensive focus
Navy focus
 
List of French Emperors:

Napoleon I:

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Napoleon II:

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Napoleon III:

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Napoleon IV:

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Napoleon V:

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Notes: Napoleon V is the current Emperor of France.
 
WAR

High political rights
Social liberalism
High economic freedom
Peaceful foreign policy
Interventionism
Defensive focus
Army focus
 
United Republic of the Netherlands

High political rights
Social liberalism
High economic freedom
Peaceful foreign policy
Interventionism
Defensive focus
Navy focus
 
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