Land & Air Technology of Ethiopia

[Kaiser Kirk]

Army & Artillery :
Land Units

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.
1935: Pre WWII era equipment. Semi-automatic rifles common. Early SMGs. Improved  Early Specialised short range Anti-Armor equipment. Light Anti-Armor guns.  Improved plotting integration. Improved Self-Propelled Carriages for light guns. Primitive Self-Propelled MLRS. Primitive Long-Range Rockets.
1945: WWII era equipment. Advanced semi-automatic rifles and SMGs. Early Assault Rifles. Improved Short-range anti-armor equipment. Heavy Anti-Armor guns. Primitive Long-Range anti-armor equipment. Self-Propelled Carriages for all field guns and MLRS. Early Long-Range Rockets.


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
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.   
               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.
1928: Mulberry harbors and amphibious vehicles.   
               Can offensively use 100% of deployment points/turn. Can launch 9 amphibious invasions / turn.

Clarifications.
Round numbers.
Offensive: Moving Land Units into a Province that's not yours.  Requires a Deployment point in support.
Amphibious Invasion : doing the above over water.
In war, you can amphibiously invade places that aren't ports. Though there are supply constraints.

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.

[AnchorSteam]

Time to get my Turn one Development in order, lets keep it modest


1910: Motorized Headquarters and communication units

1910: X-Lighters, troop transports 
               Can offensively use 1/3 deployment points / turn. Can launch 5 amphibious invasions / turn .... (maybe?)