Technology

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Note : OUTDATED
This tech list dates from prior to the 2020 consolidation and has been eliminated.

[Kaiser Kirk]

Parthian Technology as of Beginning HY2, 1917
Using the updated Technology list.

Recently Completed
1914 Aircraft - Completed
1910 Amphibious Tech - Completed
1914 true quadruple turrets - Completed
1910 submarines - Completed
1915 Art : Shells +10% - Completed

Currently under development :

1909 Engines : Hydraulic- Completing 1917.5
1915 CV- Floatplane. - Completing 1918.0
1915 Submarines - Completing 1918.5
1910 Motorized HQ
1912 Signals Int.

           
Naval Artillery                     
Baseline: Muzzle-Loading cannon. Primitive Breechloaders. Solid Shot. Primitive High Explosive Shells                     
1880: Breach loading guns. High Explosive Shells.                     
1895: Quick-Firing guns. Semi-Armor Piercing Shells                     
1900: Smokeless Powder.                     
1905: Improved Smokeless Powder. Armor Piercing Shells                     
1910: Capped Shells                 
1915: Shells can be 10% over SS default                        
1920: Improved Capped Shells Shells can be 20% over SS default                     
1925: Advanced Capped Shells                     
                     
Naval Propulsion:                    
Baseline: Simple Reciprocating Engines                     
1895: Complex Reciprocating Engines, Oil Spraying up to 10% of bunkerage.               
1902: Turbines, Underway Recoaling                     
1906: Electric Drives, Oil Fired Boilers                     
1909: Hydraulic Drives                     
1912: Geared Drives                     
1915: Diesel Engines                     
1918: Underway Oiling                     
                     
Capital Ship Architecture:                     
Baseline: Main guns in twin turrets, secondaries in casemate, tertiary in casemate or deck mounts.
1891: Mixed-caliber main battery (Main+intermediary calibers), Superfiring secondaries (Restricted Axial Firing Arcs) and Stacked Main Battery turrets OR Main caliber battery in AQY. [Pick One Only]   
1903: All-big-gun ship with wing turrets OR Superfiring turrets (restricted axial firing arcs) [Pick one or both]
1905: Improved turret hydraulics, independent gun elevation, Torpedo Bulkheads, triple turrets     
1910: Superfiring turrets (unrestricted firing arcs), "All or Nothing" Protective Schemes, "Pair of Twins" Quadruple turrets
1914: True Quadruple turrets, Sloped external belts   
1920:  No restriction (high or low) on caliber of turreted guns   
1926: Primitive DP secondary batteries
1932: Improved DP Secondary batteries. De-Capping plates   
1940: Advanced DP Secondary batteries.
1946: Automatic Secondary Guns


Aircraft/Seaplane Carrier Architecture:                    
Baseline: None                     
1910: Experimental aviation ships.  automatic                    
1915: floatplanes; flying-off decks for wheeled aircraft.   
1918: gunpowder catapults for floatplanes   
1922: hydraulic catapults; full length decks for wheeled aircraft; arrestor wires.
1924: Improved airgroup handling practices. Primitive deck parks.                   
1928: armored box carrier
1932: Early Deck-Parks
1938: Improved deck parks and hanger ventilation.       
1942: Advanced Deck Parks. Advanced Air-Launched Torpedoes.               
                     
Cruiser Architecture:                   
1900: ammunition hoists, deck torpedo armament, superfiring mounts. Cruisers under 6000 tons may have composite hull strength > 0.90                     
1910: twin gun mounts (require hoists); powered gun mounts; unrestricted weapon armor     
1920:  No restriction (high or low) on caliber of turreted guns. Cruisers under 3000 tons may have composite hull strength > 0.75, Cruisers under 8000 tons may have composite hull strength >0.90           
           
Destroyer, Torpedo Boat, and Motor Torpedo Boat Architecture:                    
Baseline: 500t DD, single TTs (4)
1904: 750t DD, double TTs (8 ), MTB-A
1908: 1000t DD, triple TTs (12),  MTB-B                 
1912  1500t DD, MTB-C/D                     
1918: 2000t DD, quad TTs, MTB-E/F                     
1924: 2500t DD, quint Tts, MTB-G/H                 
1928: MTB-H/I/J
                     
Mine Warfare:                     
Baseline: Hand detonated mines...                     
1897: Primitive Horn Mines...                       
1900: Reliable Horn mines. ...     
1908: Early antenna mines...                    
1918: Reliable antenna mines.                     
1922: Unreliable magnetic mines ...                       
                     
Night Fighting & Remote Sensing Devices:                    
Baseline: Mk1 Eyeball ...                       
1905: Early Huelsmeyer-type "radar"...               
1908: Basic tactics, ...                 
1912: Starshells, ...                       
1918: Illuminating shells...                     
1922: refined Huelsmeyer-type "radar"...                     
1930: Primitive search RADAR. ...                 
1934: Improved search RADAR. ...                       
1938: Functional Air & Surface RADAR, ...                       
1942: Airborne radars. ...                       
1946: Full Night blindfire RADAR,...                       
                     
Rangefinding, Fire Control and Gunnery:                    
Baseline: 2km-  Local control of individual guns.  Iron sights...                     
1905: 6km - Continuous Aim Systems. Short-base rangefinders...                 
1908: 10km- Centralized FC, early directors                       
1912: 14km - Primitive FC computers                      
1918: 24km - Spotting planes, Central director stations           
1930:  30km- Electromechanical FC computers

Torpedo Technologies:                    
Baseline: Spar mounted Torpedo, Primitive Self-Propelled Torpedoes
1890: 16", 1.5t, Early Self-Propelled Torpedoes with Compressed Air engines.     
1899: 18", 2t,  Early Wet Heater engines Early warheads.                     
1905: 18", 2t,  Improved Wet Heater engines. Improved fuses                     
1908: 21", 3t,  Improved warheads                    
1913: 21", 4t,  Advanced Wet Heater engines                 
1918: 24", 5t,  Advanced warheads. Advanced contact fuses.                     
1928: Early Oxygen Torpedoes. Primitive magnetic firing pistols.                     
1935: Improved Oxygen Torpedoes. Early magnetic firing pistols.                     
1940: Advanced Oxygen Torpedoes. Improved Magnetic firing pistols. Primitive programmable paths.     
1945: Advanced magnetic firing pistols. Early programmable paths. Primitive remote guidance methods.                     
                     
Submarines and Countermeasures:                    
1900                     
1905   
1910                    
1915                     
1920                     
1925                     
1930                     
1935                     
1940                     
                     
Army & Artillery (Land Units):             
Baseline: United States Civil War era equipment.                       
1880: Victorian era equipment.                       
1895: Spanish American War era equipment.     
1905: Pre Great War era equipment.                    
1915: Great War era equipment.                       
1925: Post Great War era equipment.                       
1935: Pre WWII era equipment. S             
1945: WWII era equipment.     
                     
Aircraft and Countermeasures:                    
Baseline: None but experiments                 
1902: Up to Historical 1906 aircraft and countermeasures                     
1906: Up to Historical 1910 aircraft and countermeasures                     
1910: Up to Historical 1914 aircraft and countermeasures                 
1914: Up to Historical 1916 aircraft and countermeasures                     
1918: Up to Historical 1919 aircraft and countermeasures                     
1922: Up to Historical 1924 aircraft and countermeasures                     
1926: Up to Historical 1929 aircraft and countermeasures                     
1930: Up to Historical 1933 aircraft and countermeasures                     
1934: Up to Historical 1937 aircraft and countermeasures                     
1938: Up to Historical 1940 aircraft and countermeasures                     
1942: Up to Historical 1944 aircraft and countermeasures                     
1946: Up to Historical 1948 aircraft and countermeasures                     
                     
Amphibious Technology:                     
Baseline: Lifeboats and the use of enemy harbors.                       
1905: Shallow draft barges and shallow draft support ships.             
1910: X-Lighters, troop transports             
1920: Landing support ships and LST carriers, combat loading.                     
1928: Mulberry harbors and amphibious vehicles.                       
                                         
Logistics:                    
Baseline: Horsedrawn limbers, covered waggons, foraging. Use of rail networks     
1900: Improved coordination. Experimental use of motorised equipment.      
1910: Motorized Headquarters and communication units                     
1920: Motorized logistics trains                     
1930: Small-scale battlefield transport                     
1940: Large-scale battlefield transport                     
                     
Mechanization:                     
Baseline: None                     
1905: Experimental. Automatically granted in 1910. Requires 1900 Logistics     
1915: Early Armored Cars. Primitive Tanks                     
1925: Improved Armored Cars, Early Tanks. Primitive APCs                     
1935: Advanced Armored Cars, Improved Tanks, Early APCs                     
1945: Advanced Tanks, Improved APCs                     
                     
Signals/Intelligence:                    
Baseline: Wax seals, primitive codes.                     
1895:  Ability to create simple codes.                     
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.                 

[Kaiser Kirk]

List as of Beginning of HY1 1928 attached.

[Kaiser Kirk]

As of beginning of HY2, 1930

Naval Technologies

Beginning

HY2, 1930

Naval Artillery

Baseline: Muzzle-Loading cannon. Primitive Breechloaders. Solid Shot. Primitive High Explosive Shells

1880: Breach loading guns. High Explosive Shells.

1895: Quick-Firing guns. Semi-Armor Piercing Shells

1900: Smokeless Powder.

1905: Improved Smokeless Powder. Armor Piercing Shells

1910: Capped Shells

1915: Shells can be 10% over SS default

1920: Improved Capped Shells Shells can be 20% over SS default

1925: Advanced Capped Shells

Naval Propulsion:

Baseline: Simple Reciprocating Engines

1895: Complex Reciprocating Engines, Oil Spraying up to 10% of bunkerage.

1902: Turbines, Underway Recoaling

1906: Electric Drives, Oil Fired Boilers

1909: Hydraulic Drives

1912: Geared Drives

1915: Diesel Engines

1918: Underway Oiling

Capital Ship Architecture:

Baseline: Main guns in twin turrets, secondaries in casemate, tertiary in casemate or deck mounts.

1891: Mixed-caliber main battery (Main+intermediary calibers), Superfiring secondaries (Restricted Axial Firing Arcs) and Stacked Main Battery turrets OR Main caliber battery in AQY. [Pick One Only]

1903: All-big-gun ship with wing turrets OR Superfiring turrets (restricted axial firing arcs) [Pick one or both]

1905: Improved turret hydraulics, independent gun elevation, Torpedo Bulkheads, triple turrets

1910: Superfiring turrets (unrestricted firing arcs), "All or Nothing" Protective Schemes, "Pair of Twins" Quadruple turrets

1914: True Quadruple turrets, Sloped external belts

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

1926: Primitive DP secondary batteries

Aircraft/Seaplane Carrier Architecture:

Baseline: None

1910: Experimental aviation ships. Requires and is automatically granted upon completion of the 1910 Aircraft tech.

1915: floatplanes; flying-off decks for wheeled aircraft. Primitive Air-Launched torpedoes

1918: gunpowder catapults for floatplanes; separate landing and taking-off decks for wheeled aircraft. Early Air-Launched torpedoes. Rapid Consecutive Takeoffs limited to single aircraft.

1922: hydraulic catapults; full length decks for wheeled aircraft; arrestor wires. Primitive Anti-Shipping Bombs. Rapid Consecutive Takeoffs limited to single squadrons

1924: Improved airgroup handling practices. Primitive deck parks. Anti-Ship Level Bombing. Rapid Consecutive Takeoffs with no more than 25% of the airgroup

1928: armored box carrier Improved Air-Launched Torpedoes. Early Anti-Ship Dive Bombs

Cruiser Architecture: For all years, Cruisers with turrets shall have a composite hull strength > 1.0.

Baseline: guns in single mounts or casemates, on side/centerline

1900: ammunition hoists, deck torpedo armament, superfiring mounts. Cruisers under 6000 tons may have composite hull strength > 0.90

1910: twin gun mounts (require hoists); powered gun mounts; unrestricted weapon armor

1920:  No restriction (high or low) on caliber of turreted guns. Cruisers under 3000 tons may have composite hull strength > 0.75, Cruisers under 8000 tons may have composite hull strength >0.90

Note: effective HY1, 1913: Pre-existing cruisers are grandfathered. If they have a turret and 0.90 hull, presume they have required extra bracing, and the lesson has been learned.

Destroyer, Torpedo Boat, and Motor Torpedo Boat Architecture:

Baseline: single TTs - max 4, displacement 500t

1904: double TTs - max 8, displacement 750t Type A MTB

1908: triple TTs - max 12, displacement 1000t Type B MTB

1912: max displacement 1500t Type C, D MTB

1918: quad TTs, 2000t Type E, F MTB

1924: quintuple tubes, 2,500t Type G, H MTB

Mine Warfare:

Baseline: Hand detonated mines. Running into mines with ships.

1897: Primitive Horn Mines

1900: Reliable Horn mines. Primitive paravanes and dragged booms behind small vessels.

1908: Early antenna mines. Advanced paravanes, active charges.

1918: Reliable antenna mines.

Night Fighting & Remote Sensing Devices:

Baseline: Mk1 Eyeball with limited optical enhancement (eg Binoculars), standard searchlights in regular mountings.

1905: Early Huelsmeyer-type "radar", listening dishes, War tuba's.

1908: Basic tactics, Specialized nighttime acquisition Searchlight mounts, night scopes

1912: Starshells, Improved tactics

1918: Illuminating shells with parachute, improved night scopes

1922: refined Huelsmeyer-type "radar". Short range directional indicator.  Magnetron Research.

Rangefinding, Fire Control and Gunnery:

Baseline: Local control of individual guns. Limited non-rangefinding magnification equipment for main batteries. Iron sight aiming. 2km All ships equipped w/o misc weight allocation.

1905: Continuous Aim Systems. Short-base rangefinders. Dedicated Spotting infrastructure. Primitive centralization. 6km

1908: Centralized FC, early directors - 10km

1912: Primitive FC computers -14km

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

Torpedo Technologies:

Baseline: Spar mounted Torpedo, Primitive Self-Propelled Torpedoes with improvised warheads.

1890: Early Self-Propelled Torpedoes with Compressed Air engines. Primitive warheads. Early contact fuses.

1899: Early Wet Heater engines Early warheads.

1905: Improved Wet Heater engines. Improved fuses

1908: Improved warheads

1913: Advanced Wet Heater engines

1918: Advanced warheads. Advanced contact fuses.

Submarines and Countermeasures:

1900

1905

1910

1915

1920

1925

Army & Artillery :

Land Formations

Baseline: United States Civil War era equipment. Muzzle loading muskets and rifles. Limited number of repeating and breach-loading rifles. Primitive Gatling Guns. Muzzle loading cannon on simple wheeled carriages. Very Primitive single-shot Black Powder rockets.

1880: Victorian era equipment. Black Powder Bolt-Action rifles. Improved Gatling Guns in greater quantity. Improved mobility of field guns. Primitive Breech loading light field pieces.

1895: Spanish American War era equipment. Improved single-shot breechloaders. Smokeless Powder  Bolt-action rifles Primitive rifle-caliber MGs. Proliferation of QF hydraulic recoil carriages for light field pieces.

1905: Pre Great War era equipment. Improved Bolt-action rifles. Rifle-caliber MGs. Improved Breech loading guns. Primitive Recoilless carriages for light field pieces.

1915: Great War era equipment. Advanced Bolt-action rifles. Proliferation of light MGs, sprinkling of heavy MGs. Field mortars. Improvised Short range Anti-Armor equipment. Increase number of heavy guns. Experimental MLRS-style weapons.

1925: Post Great War era equipment. Improving number of man-portable automatic weapons. Proliferation of heavy MGs. Early Specialized short range Anti-Armor equipment. Improved split-tail and towable carriages. Proliferation of hydraulic recoil carriages for heavy field pieces. Primitive and limited use Self-Propelled Carriages for light guns. Primitive Artillery plotting. Primitive MLRS.

Aircraft and Countermeasures:

Baseline: None, perhaps a few private experimenters with gliders or hot air balloons.

1902: Up to Historical 1906 aircraft and countermeasures

1906: Up to Historical 1910 aircraft and countermeasures

1910: Up to Historical 1914 aircraft and countermeasures

1914: Up to Historical 1916 aircraft and countermeasures

1918: Up to Historical 1919 aircraft and countermeasures

1922: Up to Historical 1924 aircraft and countermeasures

1926: Up to Historical 1929 aircraft and countermeasures

Amphibious Technology:

Baseline: Lifeboats and the use of enemy harbors.

Can offensively  use 3 deployment point / turn. Can launch 1 amphibious invasion / turn.

1905: Shallow draft barges and shallow draft support ships.

Can offensively use 1/6 deployment points / turn.  Can launch 3 amphibious invasions / turn.

1910: X-Lighters, troop transports

Can offensively use 1/3 deployment points / turn. Can launch 5 amphibious invasions / turn.

1920: Landing support ships and LST carriers, combat loading.

Can offensively use 2/3 Deployment points/ turn. Can launch 7 amphibious invasions / turn.

Logistics:

Baseline: Horsedrawn limbers, covered waggons, foraging. Use of rail networks

1900: Improved coordination. Experimental use of motorised equipment.

1910: Motorized Headquarters and communication units

1920: Motorized logistics trains

Mechanization:

Baseline: None

1905: Experimental. Automatically granted in 1910. Requires 1900 Logistics

1915: Early Armored Cars. Primitive Tanks

1925: Improved Armored Cars, Early Tanks. Primitive APCs

Signals/Intelligence:

Baseline: Wax seals, primitive codes.

1895:  Ability to create simple codes.

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.