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never be allowed to become despondent; so victories must be
exaggerated and defeats, if not concealed, at any rate minimized, and the
stimulus of indignation, horror, and hatred must be assiduously and
continuously pumped into the public mind by means of propaganda.
Conditions: not before 1915.
Difficulty: die roll 2+.
Enter in play: Events phase, any turn.
Option #1: (historical choice) Social unrests bonus – For the incoming 6
turns, the target nation will benefit from a -1 bonus to the die rolls on all
Social unrests tests: strikes, mutinies and rebellions.
Option #2: Nation Stability bonus – For the incoming 6 turns, the target
nation will benefit from a +1 bonus to the die rolls on all Stability tests.
Option #3: Parliament Mood bonus – The attitude of the target nation’s
Parliament is moved by 1 space towards Sacred Union.
Notes: once successfully in play, the event is discarded and can be later
reshuffled in the deck.
National Will
Description: This event will give your nation an immediate improvement of
your National Will. Such improvement will be determined randomly.
Historical notes: The deprivations of the war were manifold and both
soldiers at the front and people in the homeland considerably suffered from
them. Hoping for a soon victory and their men and sons returning from the
front, mothers and women worked even harder in the industry.
Conditions: automatic.
Difficulty: die roll 2+.
Enter in play: Events phase, any turn.
Option #1: (historical choice) National Will bonus – The target nation will
receive an immediate random National Morale bonus, spanning from
1 to 6.
Notes: once successfully in play, the event is discarded and can be later
reshuffled in the deck.
Sixte of Bourbon-Parme/De Witt
Description: This event will give you a big bonus in negotiating a separate
peace with Austria, for the Entente, or Russia, for the Central Powers.
Historical notes: Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma (given names: Sixtus
Ferdinand Maria Ignazio Alfred Robert; Wartegg, Switzerland, August 1,
1886 – Paris, March 14, 1934) was a Prince of the Duchy of Parma, a
Belgian officer in the First World War, and the central figure in the Sixtus
Affair. His sister Zeta of Bourbon-Parma was married to Emperor Charles I
of Austria. In 1917, Prince Charles sent his brother-in-law Sixtus to France
to secretly enter into peace negotiations with France. This was not known
to his ally Germany, but when the news of the overture leaked in April 1918,
Charles I denied any involvement. However, the French prime minister
published the letters sent by Charles I, what led to a even more dependent
position of Austria with respect to its German ally.
Conditions: automatic.
Difficulty: die roll 3+.
Modifiers: -1 before 1916.
Enter in play: Events phase, any turn.
Option #1: (historical choice) Peace negotiation bonus with Austria-
Hungary – During the following 6 turns, Entente powers will benefit from a
+3 die roll bonus to the Peace Negotiations test with Austria-Hungary, who
will suffer from an equivalent penalty on Capitulation tests.
Option #2: Peace negotiation bonus with Russia – During the following 6
turns, Central Powers will benefit from a +1 die roll bonus to the Peace
Negotiations test with Russia, who will suffer from an equivalent penalty on
Capitulation tests.
Notes: once successfully in play, the event is discarded and cannot occur
again.
Lenin
Description: This event will allow you to attempt a “red” coup d’etat in
Russia, bringing serious penalties for eventual “white” coup for Kornilov.
Historical notes: Born on April 22, 1870, Lenin immersed himself in radical
writings from an early age, especially those of Karl Marx and studied the
problem of revolutionary change in Russia from a Marxist perspective.
Although he was forced into exile until 1917 he returned to Russia after the
February Revolution and immediately took a leading role within the
Bolshevik movement, urging non-cooperation with the Provisional
Government and rejection of any participation in the war. Bolshevik
fortunes rose in August following their role in foiling an attempted coup by
general Kornilov and by October the popular revolutionary mood was
intensifying with Lenin urging an immediate armed uprising against the
provisional government. Masterminded by Trotsky, the seizure of power
was effected on the night of 25th October. In order to bring the country out
of war Lenin negotiated a peace treaty with Germany in 1918. The same
year, civil war broke out against liberal and monarchist forces who would
not be defeated until 1921. After a series of strokes, Lenin died on January
21, 1924, at the age of 53.
Conditions: a Revolution has broken out in Russia.
Difficulty: automatic.
Enter in play: Events phase, any turn.
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