Technological Accomplishments

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Key:
Green: Already developed or integrated
Blue: Currently under development or integration
Black: Not yet developed

Naval Artillery

1885

1895

1900

1902 (From the Netherlands)

1907 (From the Netherlands)

1911

1915

1921

1928

Naval Propulsion

1895 Baseline(0): Complex Reciprocating Engines, Engine Year 1900

1902 Advanced (+1): Engine year 1905, Max. non-VTE power 5,000 HP/Shaft,

Direct-drive Turbines

1905 Cutting Edge (+3) Engine year 1909, Max. non-VTE power 12,000 HP/Shaft

1909: Engine year 1912, Max. non-VTE power 20,000 HP/Shaft

1913: Engine year 1916, Max. non-VTE power 35,000 HP/Shaft (From the Netherlands)

1917: Engine year 1920, Max. non-VTE power 40,000 HP/Shaft, Engine year = year laid down.

Miscellaneous propulsion technology:

1900 Underway Recoaling

1906 Oil-firing boilers: Allows bunkers with larger than 10% percentage for oil (From the Netherlands)

1906 Electric Propulsion

1912 Geared Drives

1912 Capital Ship Diesel Engines

1915 Underway Oiling

BB/AC Architecture - Main battery in turrets

1880: Main guns in twin turrets, secondaries in casemate

1890: Mixed main armament or AQY with double turrets+casemates

1904: All-big-gun ship with wing turrets, superfiring turrets (restricted axial firing arcs), improved turret hydraulics, Torpedo Bulkheads

1906: Superfiring turrets (unrestricted firing arcs), triple turrets (From the Netherlands)

1912: Quadruple turrets

1920:  No restriction (high or low) on caliber of turreted guns

Aircraft/Seaplane Carriers

1910: experimental aviation ships; automatically granted upon completion of the 1910 Aircraft (1914 models) tech.

1915: floatplanes; flying-off decks for wheeled aircraft

1918: gunpowder catapults for floatplanes; separate landing and taking-off decks for wheeled aircraft

1922: hydraulic catapults; full length decks for wheeled aircraft; arrestor wires

1926: armored box carrier

Light Cruiser Architecture - Main battery in deck mounts/casemates

1880 Baseline(0): guns in single mounts or casemates, on side/centerline

1900 Advanced(+1): ammunition hoists, deck torpedo armament, superfiring mounts

1910 Cutting Edge (+5): twin gun mounts (require hoists); powered gun mounts; unrestricted weapon armor

Destroyer and TB architecture - Top speed no less than 20kts, composite hull strength > 0.49

1880 Baseline (0): single TTs - max 4, displacement 500t

1904 Advanced (+1):double TTs - max 8, displacement 750t

1908 Cutting Edge (+3): triple TTs - max 12, displacement 1000t (From the Netherlands)

1912: max displacement 1500t (From the Netherlands)

1918: quad TTs, 2000t

1924: quintuple tubes, 2,500t

Motor Torpedo Boats

1905

1910

1914

1914

1918

1918

1922

1922

1928

1928

1928

Mine Warfare

1890: long stick and Very Slow Forward. Hand detonated mines

1900 Baseline (0): primitive paravanes and dragged booms behind small vessels.  Horn mines.

1908: Advanced (+1): advanced paravanes, active charges. Reliable horn mines, early antenna mines.

1918: Reliable antenna mines.

1922: Unreliable magnetic mines & countermessures.

Naval Artillery Shells

1880 Primitive(-2): Solid shot

1890 Dated (-1): High Explosive

1895 Baseline (0): Semi Armour-Piercing

1905 Advanced (+1): Armour-Piercing

1908 Cutting Edge (+3): Capped shells

ASW

1910: ASW tactics, depth charges

1916: hydrophones, depth charge throwers

Night fighting

1908: basic tactics, searchlight, night scopes

1912: starshell + improved tactics

1918: Illuminating shells with parachute, improved night scopes

Rangefinding, Fire Control and Gunnery

(development takes twice as long as a normal tech)

1908: centralized FC, early directors - 12kyd (From the Netherlands)

1912: primitive FC computers -18kyd

1918: Spotting planes, Central director stations, long base-length RF - 24kyd

1930:  Electromechanical FC computers - 30kyd

Radar technology (double-time tech)

1905: Advanced (+1): Early Huelsmeyer-type "radar", listening dishes, War tuba's.

1915: Cutting Edge (+3): refined Huelsmeyer-type "radar"

1930: Futuristic (+5): primitive "modern" search RADAR

Armor technology

1880 Cast Iron -20%

1890 Compound -10%

1900 Krupp Cemented 0

1915 All Imp. KC types +10%

1912 Sloped external belts; "All or Nothing" Protective Schemes

Torpedo Technologies

1890 Primitive (-2) : 800m@26kts range, 50kg warhead (-1 dam.), compressed air 0.5t, 16" dia.

1890 Dated (-1): 1200@26, 400@35, 100kg warhead (+0 dam.), compressed air 0.5t, 16"

1899 Baseline (0):3000@26, 1500@30, 100kg warhead(+0 dam.), early wet heater 1t, 18"

1905 Advanced (+1): 5000@26, 2200@35, 100kg warhead, imp. wet heater, 1t, 18"

1908 Cutting Edge (+3): 7000@26, 3000@35, 100kg warhead, imp. wet heater, 1t, 21"  (From the Netherlands)

1913: (+5) 15000@26, 10000@30,7000@35, 200kg warhead (+1), 2t, 21"

1918: (+8) 20000@26, 15000@30, 10000@35, 300kg warhead (+2) 3t weight, 24"

1928: (+12)Reliable Oxygen Torpedoes (aka Long Lance Torpedoes, double time tech)

Electric Torpedo Proplusion

1905: 2000@20/1000@30, +0 damage, 2t

1914:  Torpedoes as capable as normal torpedoes at "slow" setting.

Submarines

1900

1905 (From the Netherlands)

1910 (From the Netherlands)

1915

1920

1925

1930

1935

1940

Line Infantry

1870 Primitive (-2) Rating 2 Artillery 0.5

1885 Dated (-1) 3/1

1895 Baseline (0) 4/2

1905 Advanced (+1) 5/3 (From the Netherlands)

1915 Cutting Edge(+3) 6/4

1925 (+4) 7/5

1935 (+5) 8/6

Light Infantry/Cavalry (Includes all of:  cavalry, mountain, desert, commando, marine)

1870 Primitive (-2) Rating 2 Artillery 0

1885 Dated (-1) 3/0.5

1895 Baseline (0) 4/1

1905 Advanced (+1) 5/1.5

1915 Cutting Edge (+1) 6/2

1925 (+2) 7/2.5

1935 (+2) 8/3

Army Reserves

Army Mobilization and Reserves:

1895 Dated (-1): Can maintain one reserve unit per 2 active strength units

1900 Baseline (0): Can maintain one reserve unit per one active strength unit

1905 Advanced (+1): Can maintain two reserve units per one active strength unit

1910 Cutting Edge (+3): Can maintain three reserve units per one active strength unit

1910 Cutting Edge (+3): Can bring units from reserve to active status in seven days.

CBR warfare:

1880 Baseline(0) Blankets with smallpox, trebuchets with dead animals.

1905 Advanced (+1): Tear-producing substances, chlorine,plague fleas and rats etc.

1910 Cutting Edge (+3): Phosgene

1915: Futuristic (+5) mustard gas, anthrax spores

1920: Terrifying (+7) Early nerve gases,

Heavier-Than-Air Crafts

Baseline: None, perhaps a few private experimenters with gliders

1902: Advanced: Primitive flying machines: Wright Flyer, Langly Aerodrome etc. 1906 historical year

1906: Cutting Edge: Historical 1910 aircraft level

1910: historical 1914 aircrafts

1913: historical 1916 aircrafts

1917: historical 1918 aircrafts (wireless possible in multi-engine types)

1921: historical 1922 aircrafts (wireless possible in single-engine types)

1921: historical 1922 aircrafts

1925: historical 1926 aircrafts

1929: historical 1930 aircrafts

1933: historical 1934 aircrafts

1937: historical 1938 aircrafts

Dirigible Airships

Dated: None

1898: Baseline: Type 0: Volume 10 000m³ nonrigid airships, 30kts

1905: Advanced (+1): Type 1 Volume: 20 000m³ and 4 tons military payload over 700 nm speed 40 kts

1910: Cutting Edge (+3) : Type 2 Volume: 40 000m³ and 9 tons military payload over 1200 nm speed 50 kts

1915: Type 3 Volume: 70 000m³ and 16 tons military payload over 2200 nm speed 60 kts

1920: 4 Volume: 130 000m³ and 31 tons military payload over 3900 nm speed 65 kts

1925: Volume: 210 000m² and 60 tons military payload over 5200 nm speed 70 kts

Anti-aircraft Guns and Directors

1903 (-1):  Machine gun caliber weapons aimed by hand and eye. Field guns firing non-AA specific ammunition.

1910 (0):  Purpose designed weapons and ammunition, including hand adjusted timed-fused shells for larger calibers, and tracers in machine guns and autocannon.

1918 (+1): Improved timed fuses. AA fire plans. Central post AA fire control.

1926 (+2): Improved ammunition supply for automatic weapons. Early AA fire control tables. Dual Purpose guns.

1936 (+3): Mature AA fire control. Radar guided AA fire control. Proximity fuses for guns larger than 75mm.

Amphibious Technology

Baseline(0)  lifeboats and the use of enemy harbors.

1905  Advanced (+1) shallow draft barges and shallow draft support ships (From the Netherlands)

1910 Cutting edge (+3)  LST ships

1920 Futuristic (+5) Landing support ships and LST carriers

1928 Ultimate (+7): Mulberry harbors and amphibious vehicles.

Railway guns

1900: Baseline (0): Railway guns of up to 150mm, armored trains

1905: Advanced (+1): Railway guns of up to 254mm

1910: Cutting Edge (+3): Railway guns of up to 356mm

1915: Futuristic (+5): Unrestricted calibre railway guns

Motorization

1900:  Experimental:  A few cars and trucks have been bought by your army to see what they can do; everything else follows from this.  This tech is granted automatically once the nation has the following techs researched:  1900 Internal Combustion Engines and either 1895 Line Infantry or Light/Cavalry

1910:  Motorized HQ, Artillery units; improved tactical mobility

1920:  All supporting elements motorized; improved strategic mobility

1930:  Troops mounted; improved tactical firepower/mobility, strategic mobility.

Light Armor

1905:  Historical 1907 civilian vehicles (unreliable) with improvised armor and machine gun mount.  Prerequisite:   1900 Motorization.

1910:  Historical 1912 armored cars

1915:  Historical 1917 tankettes (unreliable) and armored cars

1920:  Historical 1922 tankettes and armored cars

Heavy Armour

1910:  Historical 1916 tanks (very unreliable).  Pre-requisite  :    1900 Motorization.

1915:  Historical 1917 tanks (unreliable)

1920:  historical 1922 tanks

Signals/Intelligence

1895:  Ability to create simple codes (if a player requests this ability.)

1900:  Ability to use and break simple codes, bored crews at wireless stations listening to radio traffic

1905:  Basic encoding protocols, dedicated radio and telegraph line listening stations

1912:  Centralized cryptographic institutions, enforced radio discipline, Room 40

1920:  Primitive mechanical encoding/decoding machines etc.

Rocketry

1910:  Black powder rockets .Comparable to light field guns in effect  but utterly unreliable and inaccurate.

1920:  The start of new rocket theories, experiments with vastly different propellants, active mechanical flight stabilization.

1926:  Experiments with liquid fueled rockets. Dependable solid fuel rocket weapon systems on light field gun level.

1935:  Solid fueled siege rockets, liquid fuel rocket weapon ystems in experimental phase.

1942:  Solid fueled area effect missile systems (Katyusha), less reliable long range liquid fuel rockets available (early A4) in small quantities.