Bavarian Technologies

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ONLY THROUGH HY 2, 1914
see below for 1915 on

Bavarian Technology, Updated through II / 1914

Naval Technology

Gun Technology
1905 Advanced (+1)

Propulsion
1902 Advanced (+1): Engine year 1905, Max. Turbine power 5000HP/Shaft, Direct-drive Turbines
1905 Cutting Edge (+3) Engine year 1909, Max. Turbine power 12000HP/Shaft since II/1908
1906 Oil-firing boilers allows bunkers with larger than 10% percentage for oil since II/1914, Italia
1906  Electric Propulsion since II/1914, Italia
1909: Engine year 1912, Max. Turbine power 20000HP/Shaft since II/1914, UKN

BB/AC Architecture
1890 Baseline (0): Mixed main armament or AQY with double turrets+casemates

Light Cruiser Architecture
1880 Baseline(0): guns in single mounts or casemates, on side/centerline
1900 Advanced(+1): ammunition hoists, deck torpedo armament, superfiring mounts since I/1911
1910 Cutting Edge (+5): twin gun mounts since II/1914, Iberian

Destroyer and TB architecture
1880 Baseline (0): single TTs - max 4, displacement 500t
1904 Advanced (+1):double TTs - max 8, displacement 750t since II/1908
1908 Cutting Edge (+3): triple TTs - max 12, displacement 1000t since I/1914

Armor technology
Advanced   Krupp Cemented 1900

Torpedo technology
1899 Baseline (0):3000@26, 1500@30, 100kg warhead(+0 dam.), early wet heater 1t
1905 Advanced (+1): 5000@26, 2200@35, 100kg warhead, imp. wet heater, 1t since I/1908

Submarines
......Dated (-1): No submarines

Mine Warfare
1900 Baseline (0): primitive paravanes and dragged booms behind small expendable vessels- suicide duty.

1908: Advanced (+1): advanced paravanes, active charges. Pressure mines. Advanced contact mines since II/1908

Naval Artillery Shells
1905 Advanced (+1): Armour-Piercing

Night Fighting
1908: basic tactics, searchlight, night scopes since II/1913
1912: Night Fighting starshell + improved tactics since II/1914, UKN

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

Land Technology

Infantry technology
1905 Advanced 5/3

Cavalry Techs
1905 Advanced 5/1.5

Army Mobilization and Reserves:
1900 Baseline: Can maintain one reserve unit per one active strength unit
1905 Advanced (+1): Can maintain two reserve units per one active strength unit  since HY2/1910
1910 Cutting Edge (+3): at General Mobilization can begin moving units from depots on day 5 since HY2, 1913

CBR warfare:
Baseline(0) Blankets with smallpox, trebuchets with dead animals.

Railroad Artillery
1905: Advanced (+1): Railway guns of up to 254mm, HY2 1913, UNK

Internal Combustion Engines (Land, submarines, and air)
1905 Cutting Edge(+3):Diesel engines, Land, airship and naval engines up to 750HP, 75 HP aeroplane engines
1910 Futuristic  (+5): IC engines up to 2000HP, 120HP Aeroplane engines (1910) since HY2, 1913

Light Armor
1905 Advanced +1; Experimental Armored Cars since I/1911

Aircraft Technology

Heavier-than-air crafts
1902 Advanced: Primitive flying machines: Wright Flyer, Langly Aerodrome etc. 1906 historical year
1906 Cutting Edge: Historical 1910 aircraft level since since I/1911

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

Anti-aircraft gun and altitudes
1908 Advanced (+1): High angle anti-air guns (20-40mm) = 5,000 feet

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Kingdom of Greater Bavaria and Swiss Technologies, II / 1915

No longer current

Complete list, now with colors. Old list retained for comparison. Will fix the massive underlining later...

Green = Mastered
Orange = Researching
Black = profound mystery

  Naval Technologies

Naval Gun Technology
1885 Primitive (-3)
1895 Dated(-1)
1900 Baseline(0)
1902 Advanced(+1)
1907 Cutting Edge(+3) - was 1910
1911 - was 1915
1915 - was 1920
1921 - was 1925
1928 - was 1930

Naval Propulsion
1895 Baseline(0): Complex Reciprocating Engines, Engine Year 1900
1902 Advanced (+1): Engine year 1905, Max. Turbine power 5000HP/Shaft, Direct-drive Turbines
1905 Cutting Edge (+3) Engine year 1909, Max. Turbine power 12000HP/Shaft
1909: Engine year 1912, Max. Turbine power 20000HP/Shaft Netherlands
1913: Engine year 1916, Max. Turbine power
1917: Engine year 1920, unlimited power/shaft
1922: Engine year 1925
1927: Engine year 1930

miscellaneous propulsion technology
1900 Underway Recoaling
1906 Oil-firing boilers allows bunkers with larger than 10% percentage for oil Italia
1906 Electric Propulsion Italia
1912 Geared Drives
1912 Capital Ship Diesel Engines
1915 Underway Refueling

BB/AC Architecture
1880 Dated: Main guns in twin turrets, secondaries in casemate
1890 Baseline (0): Mixed main armament or AQY with double turrets+casemates
1904 Advanced (+1): All-big-gun ship with wing turrets, improved turret hydraulics,
Torpedo Bulkheads
1906 Cutting Edge (+3): Superfiring turrets, all centerline, triple turrets
1912: Futurisitc:  Quadruple turrets

Light Cruiser Architecture
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 Iberia
1920: turrets and barbettes

Destroyer and TB architecture
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
1912: max displacement 1500t,
1918: quad TTs, 2000t

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"Gran Columbia
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"

Electric Torpedo Proplusion
1905: 2000@20/1000@30, +0 damage, 2t
1914 3000@20/1500@30, +1 damage, 2t
1925 4000@25/2500@35, +1 damage, 2t
1935 5000@30/3500@35 +1 damage, 2t

Submarines
requires appropriate IC engine technology
Dated- None
1900
1905
1910
1915
1920

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
1916: Improved capped shells

ASW
1910: ASW tactics, primitive depth charges
1916: hydrophones, improved depth charges
1926: further improvements

Night fighting
1908: basic tactics, searchlight, night scopes
1912: starshell + improved tactics Netherlands
1918: Illuminating shells with parachute, improved night scopes

Rangefinding, Fire Control and Gunnery (double-time tech)
1908: centralized FC, early directors - 12kyd UNK
1912: primitive FC computers -18kyd
1918: Central director stations, long base-length RF - 24kyd
1928: Search radars, spotting planes, 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"
1925: Futuristic (+5): primitive "modern" search RADAR


Land Technologies


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
1915 Cutting Edge(+3) 6/4

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

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 OR at General Mobilization can begin moving units from depots five days after mobilization is ordered.

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
1918: historical 1918 aircrafts (wireless possible in multi-engine types)
1922: historical 1922 aircrafts (wireless possible in single-engine types)

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 gun and altitudes

1900:  Baseline (0): High angle anti-balloon guns or machine guns (up to 1 pounders) = 1,000 feet - starting point for everyone.
High-angle anti-balloon guns are perfect for that role.
1908:  Advanced (+1): High angle anti-air guns (20-40mm) = 5,000 feet
1914:  Cutting Edge (+3): High angle artillery (40-80mm) = 15,000 feet
1925:  Futuristic (+5): High altitude artillery (80mm+) = 30,000 feet

Internal Combustion Engines (Land, submarines, and air)
Dated (-1): none
1895 Baseline (0): Gas, petrol(gasoline) and alcohol-fueled engines up to 20HP
1900 Advanced (+1): Land and airship engines up to 200HP, 50HP aeroplane engines
1905 Cutting Edge(+3):Diesel engines, Land, airship and naval engines up to 750HP, 75 HP aeroplane engines
1910 Futuristic  (+5): IC engines up to 2000HP, 120HP Aeroplane engines (1910)
1914: Engines up to 3000HP, 200HP Aeroplane engines (1916)
1920: Engines with no effective limit on max output (1920), Aeroplane engines 300HP

Amphibious Technology
Baseline(0)  lifeboats and the use of enemy harbors.
1905  Advanced (+1) shallow draft barges and shallow draft support shipsGran Columbia
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 UNK
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. 
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

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Kingdom of Greater Bavaria and Swiss Technologies

Current as of end of HY1, 1916

Color = Mastered
Color = Researching
Color = profound mystery

Naval Technologies

Naval Gun Technology 
1885 Primitive (-3)
1895 Dated(-1)
1900 Baseline(0)
1902 Advanced(+1)
1907 Cutting Edge(+3) - was 1910
1911 - was 1915
1915 - was 1920
1921 - was 1925
1928 - was 1930

Naval Propulsion
1895 Baseline(0): Complex Reciprocating Engines, Engine Year 1900
1902 Advanced (+1): Engine year 1905, Max. Turbine power 5000HP/Shaft, Direct-drive Turbines
1905 Cutting Edge (+3) Engine year 1909, Max. Turbine power 12000HP/Shaft
1909: Engine year 1912, Max. Turbine power 20000HP/Shaft Netherlands
1913: Engine year 1916, Max. Turbine power
1917: Engine year 1920, unlimited power/shaft
1922: Engine year 1925
1927: Engine year 1930

miscellaneous propulsion technology
1900 Underway Recoaling
1906 Oil-firing boilers allows bunkers with larger than 10% percentage for oil Italia
1906 Electric Propulsion Italia
1912 Geared Drives
1912 Capital Ship Diesel Engines
1915 Underway Refueling

BB/AC Architecture
1880 Dated: Main guns in twin turrets, secondaries in casemate
1890 Baseline (0): Mixed main armament or AQY with double turrets+casemates
1904 Advanced (+1): All-big-gun ship with wing turrets, improved turret hydraulics,
Torpedo Bulkheads
1906 Cutting Edge (+3): Superfiring turrets, all centerline, triple turrets
1912: Futurisitc:  Quadruple turrets

Light Cruiser Architecture
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 Iberia
1920: turrets and barbettes

Destroyer and TB architecture
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
1912: max displacement 1500t,
1918: quad TTs, 2000t

MTB Tech 
1905
1910
1914
1918
1922
1928


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"
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"

Electric Torpedo Proplusion
1905: 2000@20/1000@30, +0 damage, 2t
1914 3000@20/1500@30, +1 damage, 2t
1925 4000@25/2500@35, +1 damage, 2t
1935 5000@30/3500@35 +1 damage, 2t

Submarines
Dated- None
1900
1905
1910
1915
1920

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
1916: Improved capped shells

ASW 
1910: ASW tactics, primitive depth charges
1916: hydrophones, improved depth charges
1926: further improvements

Night fighting
1908: basic tactics, searchlight, night scopes
1912: starshell + improved tactics Netherlands
1918: Illuminating shells with parachute, improved night scopes

Rangefinding, Fire Control and Gunnery (double-time tech)
1908: centralized FC, early directors - 12kyd UNK
1912: primitive FC computers -18kyd
1918: Central director stations, long base-length RF - 24kyd
1928: Search radars, spotting planes, 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"
1925: Futuristic (+5): primitive "modern" search RADAR




Land Technologies 


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
1915 Cutting Edge(+3) 6/4

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

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 OR at General Mobilization can begin moving units from depots five days after mobilization is ordered.

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
1918: historical 1918 aircrafts (wireless possible in multi-engine types)
1922: historical 1922 aircrafts (wireless possible in single-engine types)

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 gun and altitudes

1900:  Baseline (0): High angle anti-balloon guns or machine guns (up to 1 pounders) = 1,000 feet - starting point for everyone.
High-angle anti-balloon guns are perfect for that role.
1908:  Advanced (+1): High angle anti-air guns (20-40mm) = 5,000 feet
1914:  Cutting Edge (+3): High angle artillery (40-80mm) = 15,000 feet
1925:  Futuristic (+5): High altitude artillery (80mm+) = 30,000 feet

Internal Combustion Engines (Land, submarines, and air)
1914: Engines up to 3000HP, 200HP Aeroplane engines (1916)
Discontinued

Amphibious Technology
Baseline(0)  lifeboats and the use of enemy harbors.
1905  Advanced (+1) shallow draft barges and shallow draft support ships from GC
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. 
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

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Color = old tech
Color = Mastered
Color = Researching
Color = profound mystery

Nation indicates tech has foreign origins and Bavaria will not pass along

Naval Technologies

Naval Gun Technology  
1885 Primitive (-3)
1895 Dated(-1)
1900 Baseline(0)
1902 Advanced(+1)
1907 Cutting Edge(+3) - was 1910 Netherlands
1911 - was 1915
1915 - was 1920
1921 - was 1925
1928 - was 1930

Naval Propulsion
1895 Baseline(0): Complex Reciprocating Engines, Engine Year 1900
1902 Advanced (+1): Engine year 1905, Max. Turbine power 5000HP/Shaft, Direct-drive Turbines
1905 Cutting Edge (+3) Engine year 1909, Max. Turbine power 12000HP/Shaft
1909: Engine year 1912, Max. Turbine power 20000HP/Shaft Netherlands
1913: Engine year 1916, Max. non-VTE power 35,000 HP/Shaft Netherlands
1917: Engine year 1920, Max. non-VTE power 40,000 HP/Shaft, Engine year = year laid down.
1922: Engine year 1925
1927: Engine year 1930

miscellaneous propulsion technology
1900 Underway Recoaling France
1906 Oil-firing boilers allows bunkers with larger than 10% percentage for oil Italia
1906 Electric Propulsion Italia
1912 Geared Drives
1912 Capital Ship Diesel Engines
1915 Underway Refueling

BB/AC Architecture
1880 Dated: Main guns in twin turrets, secondaries in casemate
1890 Baseline (0): Mixed main armament or AQY with double turrets+casemates
1904 Advanced (+1): All-big-gun ship with wing turrets, improved turret hydraulics,Torpedo Bulkheads Netherlands
1906 Cutting Edge (+3): Superfiring turrets, all centerline, triple turrets RRC
1912: Futurisitc:  Quadruple turrets

Secondaries are 4-7" guns. 8-10" medium-caliber guns are not secondaries, but medium-caliber main 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
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 Iberia
1920: turrets and barbettes

Destroyer and TB architecture
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
1912: max displacement 1500t,
1918: quad TTs, 2000t

MTB Tech  
1905
1910
1914
1918
1922
1928


Armor technology
1880 Cast Iron -20%
1890 Compound -10%
1900 Krupp Cemented 0
1915 All Imp. KC types +10% Iberia

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"Gran Columbia
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"

Electric Torpedo Proplusion
1905: 2000@20/1000@30, +0 damage, 2t
1914 3000@20/1500@30, +1 damage, 2t
1925 4000@25/2500@35, +1 damage, 2t
1935 5000@30/3500@35 +1 damage, 2t

Submarines
Dated- None
1900
1905
1910
1915
1920

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 CSA
1916: Improved capped shells

ASW  
1910: ASW tactics, primitive depth charges
1916: hydrophones, improved depth charges
1926: further improvements

Night fighting
1908: basic tactics, searchlight, night scopes
1912: starshell + improved tactics Netherlands
1918: Illuminating shells with parachute, improved night scopes

Rangefinding, Fire Control and Gunnery (double-time tech)
1908: centralized FC, early directors - 12kyd UNK
1912: primitive FC computers -18kyd
1918: Central director stations, long base-length RF - 24kyd
1928: Search radars, spotting planes, 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"
1925: Futuristic (+5): primitive "modern" search RADAR


Land Technologies  


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
1915 Cutting Edge(+3) 6/4 ESC

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

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 OR at General Mobilization can begin moving units from depots five days after mobilization is ordered.

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.
1918: historical 1918 aircrafts (wireless possible in multi-engine types)
1922: historical 1922 aircrafts (wireless possible in single-engine types)

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 gun and altitudes

1900:  Baseline (0): High angle anti-balloon guns or machine guns (up to 1 pounders) = 1,000 feet - starting point for everyone.
High-angle anti-balloon guns are perfect for that role.
1908:  Advanced (+1): High angle anti-air guns (20-40mm) = 5,000 feet
1914:  Cutting Edge (+3): High angle artillery (40-80mm) = 15,000 feet
1925:  Futuristic (+5): High altitude artillery (80mm+) = 30,000 feet

Internal Combustion Engines (Land, submarines, and air)
1914: Engines up to 3000HP, 200HP Aeroplane engines (1916)
Discontinued

Amphibious Technology
Baseline(0)  lifeboats and the use of enemy harbors.
1905  Advanced (+1) shallow draft barges and shallow draft support ships from Gran Columbia
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 356mmESC
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.  
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 Russia
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

[Kaiser Kirk]

Kingdom of Greater Bavaria and Swiss Technologies

Current as of end of HY1, 1919

Color = old tech
Color = Mastered
Color = Researching
Color = profound mystery

Nation indicates tech has foreign origins and Bavaria will not pass along

Naval Technologies

Naval Gun Technology  
1885 Primitive (-3)
1895 Dated(-1)
1900 Baseline(0)
1902 Advanced(+1)
1907 Cutting Edge(+3) - was 1910 Netherlands
1911 -
1915 -
1921 -
1928 -

Naval Propulsion
1895 Baseline(0): Complex Reciprocating Engines, Engine Year 1900
1902 Advanced (+1): Engine year 1905, Max. Turbine power 5000HP/Shaft, Direct-drive Turbines
1905 Cutting Edge (+3) Engine year 1909, Max. Turbine power 12000HP/Shaft
1909: Engine year 1912, Max. Turbine power 20000HP/Shaft Netherlands
1913: Engine year 1916, Max. non-VTE power 35,000 HP/Shaft Netherlands
1917: Engine year 1920, Max. non-VTE power 40,000 HP/Shaft, Engine year = year laid down.
1922: Engine year 1925
1927: Engine year 1930

miscellaneous propulsion technology
1900 Underway Recoaling France
1906 Oil-firing boilers allows bunkers with larger than 10% percentage for oil Italia
1906 Electric Propulsion Italia
1912 Geared Drives
1912 Capital Ship Diesel Engines ESC
1915 Underway Refueling

BB/AC Architecture
1880 Dated: Main guns in twin turrets, secondaries in casemate
1890 Baseline (0): Mixed main armament or AQY with double turrets+casemates
1904 Advanced (+1): All-big-gun ship with wing turrets, improved turret hydraulics,Torpedo Bulkheads Netherlands
1906 Cutting Edge (+3): Superfiring turrets, all centerline, triple turrets RRC
1912: Futurisitc:  Quadruple turrets
1920:  No restriction (high or low) on caliber of turreted guns

Secondaries are 4-7" guns. 8-10" medium-caliber guns are not secondaries, but medium-caliber main 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
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, powered gun mounts; unrestricted weapon armor  Iberia
1920: turrets and barbettes

Destroyer and TB architecture
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
1912: max displacement 1500t,
1918: quad TTs, 2000t
1924: quintuple tubes, 2,500t

MTB Tech  
1905
1910
1914
1918
1922
1928


Armor technology
1880 Cast Iron -20%
1890 Compound -10%
1900 Krupp Cemented 0
1915 All Imp. KC types +10% Iberia

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"Gran Columbia
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
Dated- None
1900
1905
1910
1915
1920
1925
1930

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 CSA
1916: Improved capped shells

ASW  
1910: ASW tactics, primitive depth charges
1916: hydrophones, improved depth charges


Night fighting
1908: basic tactics, searchlight, night scopes
1912: starshell + improved tactics Netherlands
1918: Illuminating shells with parachute, improved night scopes

Rangefinding, Fire Control and Gunnery (double-time tech)
1908: centralized FC, early directors - 12kyd UNK
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"
1925: Futuristic (+5): primitive "modern" search RADAR


Land Technologies  


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
1915 Cutting Edge(+3) 6/4 ESC

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

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 OR at General Mobilization can begin moving units from depots five days after mobilization is ordered.

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.

Internal Combustion Engines (Land, submarines, and air)
1914: Engines up to 3000HP, 200HP Aeroplane engines (1916)
Discontinued

Amphibious Technology
Baseline(0)  lifeboats and the use of enemy harbors.
1905  Advanced (+1) shallow draft barges and shallow draft support ships from Gran Columbia
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 356mmESC
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.  
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 Russia
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.