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Naval Code Breaking
Description: This event will allow you to make future naval encounters less
or more likely to happen, on your choice. You will also benefit of a major
bonus in naval surprise tests.
Historical notes: Codes and ciphers were used extensively in World War
One. Room 40, a room in the British Admiralty, was formed in October 1914
to decrypt intercepts of German radio stations. Starting as a small unit of
hobby cryptographs, it was expanded later in the war and played an
important role in several naval engagements, including the detection of
German sorties into the North Sea that lead to the battles of Dogger Bank
and Jutland.
Conditions: automatic.
Difficulty: die roll 3+.
Modifiers: +1 in 1914.
Enter in play: Events phase, any turn.
Option #1: (historical choice) Improve chances for future naval encounters
– All future naval encounters will be more likely to happen: you will benefit
from a +3 die-roll bonus to all naval interceptions attempts performed by
your naval squadrons. In addition, a +2 die-roll bonus is also provided to all
Naval Surprise tests!
Option #2: Improve evasion tests for future naval encounters – All future
naval encounters will be less likely to happen: you will benefit from a -3
die-roll bonus to all naval evasion tests on enemy interceptions attempts
performed against your naval squadrons. In addition, a +2 die-roll bonus is
also provided to all Naval Surprise tests!
Notes: once successfully in play, the event is discarded and can later be
reshuffled in the deck.
Sabotage
Description: This event will make enemy reinforcements being delayed by
one turn!
Historical notes: The deprivations of the war were manifold and both
soldiers at the front and people in the homeland considerably suffered from
them. As the pitcher goes often to the well, but is broken at last, some
people finally decided to put this suffering to an end.
Conditions: automatic.
Difficulty: die roll 5+.
Enter in play: Events phase, any turn.
Option #1: (historical choice) Enemy reinforcements delayed – All units
enemy reinforcements are delayed by 1 turn!
Notes: once successfully in play, the event is discarded and can later be
reshuffled in the deck.
Radio Codes
Description: This event will allow you to protect your forces from the effects
of enemy play of “Army Codes Breaking” or “Naval Codes Breaking”
events. Also, you will get a bonus in Rolling Barrage firings!
Historical notes: Codes and ciphers were used extensively in World War
One. All major parties in the conflict undertook great efforts in code
breaking and code development. Broken codes were replaced by new and
better ones. However, it would not take too long until the new codes were
broken and replaced themselves. An endless circle.
Conditions: automatic.
Difficulty: die roll 2+.
Enter in play: Events phase, any turn.
Option #1: (historical choice) Army Codes not broken – The effects of any
Army Code Breaking event are to be unapplied!
Option #2: Naval Codes not broken – The effects of any Naval Code
Breaking event are to be unapplied!
Option #2: Rolling Barrage bonus – The target nation will receive a +1
bonus to all Rolling Barrage table die rolls during the following six turns!
Notes: once successfully in play, the event is discarded and can later be
reshuffled in the deck.
Technological Stratagems
Fokker
Description: The engineer Fokker joins your side and contributes to the
aviation development. This event will bring valuable bonuses in researches
of aerial technologies.
Historical notes: Born in the Dutch East Indies, Fokker was sent by his
father to Germany to receive training as a mechanic. Yet his interest was in
flying, prompting him to change schools. That same year Fokker built his
first aircraft and in 1912 founded his first company, Fokker Aeroplanbau. In
the following years he constructed a variety of airplanes and at the onset
of War the German government took control of the factory. Fokker
remained as director and designed many aircraft for the Luftstreitkräfte,
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