Rules (Kaiser-Reich Map Game)

Welcome to the negotiation table. As per League of Nations standards (Who follows them any ways am I right?) we must negotiate in a fair manner. Here is the manual provided to help us.

Basic Rules

 * Be plausible.
 * Treat others as you want to be treated (if possible).
 * The moderator's rule is law with the consensus of the community, if possible. Otherwise, his/her word is law.
 * The algorithm in war is law unless a moderator determines it as such. Remember: such algorithms may have initial errors, and thus if an error is found, an moderator must be notified to repair it.
 * Turns will be in half years.
 * There will be a UN in-game or UN-like body, if possible and assuming key events occur.
 * Choices in-game will affect the ATL 2016 so make your choices carefully.
 * Have fun!
 * Remember, World war 2 never happened, the thoughts of people is still how people back in the 20's would think.

Colonies/puppets

 * If a player is playing a colony, you must act like a colony. Not every colony wants independence.
 * The owner will act as a colony/puppet if there is no player playing it.

Algorithm
WIP

Land Algorithm
This algo is for each individual front. if you are fighting well on a front but the enemy open ups a seond front which puts you at risk then the first front will be forced to withdraw further inland counting as a battle lost in a losing front. This algo is also only viable until 1930 where it will be replaced by a more modern algo to represent the change in warfare during the era. Road to War Algo

The Road to War Algorithm is going to focus heavily on more strategic aspects of organizing a military campaign. The Military warfare of Road to war will focus heavily on objectives and realistic ability to fight in certain time periods. Before you start any algorithm, you must chose an overall strategic objective which will mostly focus on certain things. Taking Cities, Strategic locations, Breaking defensive lines, and making various advances.

The Objectives are currently as follows

Seizing City -

Seizing Strategic location -

Breaking defensive lines -

Decisive Battle -

Seizing Region -

These objectives will give direction and limitations towards your Attack. Each objective will only yield so much territory and will cause a certain amount of casualties and will also require certain things to carry out. Seizing a city can go multiple ways. Unless declared an open city (to avoid huge collateral damage to cultural artifacts or production capability) then a City will have to be seized militarily. Some cities may be lightly defended and some may be defended to the last man.

The Other player may make that decision but in order to conserve forces may only offer token resistance. The Sieging and Seizing of cities is an extremely viable tactic to break the political will of nations rather than conducting huge costly general offensives. Taking major cities (and in the case of huge sieges) can lead to easier time demanding your war goals and overall will give many attacking nations the opportunity to destroy entire armies and render the enemy less than capable of defending themselves afterwards.

The Other objectives are rather obvious as well. Seizing a strategic locations (Gibraltar for example) will yield huge amounts of benefits for the attacker if they are successful. They are able to seize strategic locations such as choke points, advantageous defensive positions, industrial territory and resources that are needed for a grand strategic element. Breaking defensive lines will result in mostly fighting to break a defensive line at the front. Trenches, Forts, things of that sort. Decisive battle will depend heavily on the players actions. Offering a decisive battle have many advantages and disadvantages. Particularly in terms of territory gained or lost. A Decisive battle can couple with many of these other objectives and is the only objective than can pair with other objectives. Decisive battles can only occur in extreme amounts of manpower and equipment (hundreds of thousands or even millions of men and tons of equipment.) In the case of smaller nations it will be scaled down. But a Decisive battle means that if there was a clear cut victor, then it can lead to destroyed armies, captured men and equipment in mass amounts, and the seizure of extremely strategic locations. However Decisive battle means that if you lose as well, youll suffer the same issue as well as a potential counter attack by a victorious defender wishing to push the advantage due to the bonus involved in fighting or pursuing a disorganized or faltering army. However this remains a choice of the player as casualties can prevent a successful counter or pursuit Objectives are required in order to wage an effective campaign and overall just cause you manage to win a victory to secure something does not necessarily mean you can keep it. Seizing core regions of Germany for Example will not lead to the ability to take the entirety of the Rhineland for example.

Location: (Goes by closest military force of significant strength) On Location: +25 At the Front as an attacker or defender


 * Near Location: +20 Within short distance of the front (able to maneuver to aid existing forces or an ally)


 * Medium Distance: +15 (within a reasonable distance to help for a future defensive or offensive)


 * Long Distance: +10 (at a long distance from that particularly conflict, potentially to be brought to said front for conflict but probably better used elsewhere)

Troop Morale: Troop morale is going to be handled by the overall troop moral rather than national morale (which handles in your overall ability to wage war for a period of time)
 * Far away: +5 (Will take months to reach this particular part of the conflict, would probably make negligible difference on the outcome)


 * Economic (Gains land, resorce, etc): +2


 * Defending territory not owned by nation more than 20 years: +3


 * Defending territory not part of heartland but held for more than 20 years: + 4


 * Taking territory of similar culture but not part of nation: + 5


 * Aiding an Ally: + 5


 * Pre-emptive Strike: +5


 * Taking back territory recently held by nation but since lost: + 10


 * Defending Heartland from attack that will not cripple/ destroy nation: + 6


 * Aiding Social/Moral Kinsmen who are being oppressed: + 6


 * Attacking to enforce politcal hegemony: +7


 * Defending Core/heartland from possibly fatal attack + 8


 * Defending from nuclear armed nation that has a motive over 5 and has not yet used their weaponry: + 8


 * Defending from nuclear armed nation, regardless of motive, that has used said weaponry: + 9

Military Quality:
 * Defending from attack that will wipe out nation and culture: + 10


 * Top Quality: +30 (This is the top quality of military hardware, and development)


 * High Quality: +25 (This is a military with a relatively high development, but is not leading the way or on par with the other Great Powers)


 * Sub Top Quality: +20 (Your military is relatively well equipped, most of its equipment is imported or contracted, and in rare cases self developed.)


 * Medium Quality: +15 (Your Military imports most or all of its weapons, or resorts to outdated technology for its standard weaponry, All colonial troops will get this as their quality standard.)


 * Low Quality: +10 (You military uses outdated weapons almost exclusively)

Military Quantity:
 * Poor Quality: +5 (Your military is in the stone age compared to the rest of the world, the occasional firearm is there, but the majority of your forces still use extremely outdated weaponry.)


 * Huge Quantity: +30 (Your military has the ability to field immense amounts of manpower from its large population at little cost to its production)


 * Large Quantity: +25 (Your military can field a large amount of manpower from its large population, with some cost to its production)


 * Moderate Quantity: +20 (Your military can field a moderate amount of manpower from its moderate population at some cost to its production)


 * Modest Quantity: +15 (Your military can field a smaller amount of manpower from its population at greater cost to its population.)


 * Small Quantity: +10 (Your military can only field a small amount of its manpower from its population without great cost to its production)

Defensive fortification:
 * Negligible Quantity: +5 (Your military can barely field any men from its population and will incur great cost to its production if it fields too many)


 * Deep Defensive doctrine (Kursk Salient, Maginot line, Atlantic Wall) +20


 * Mobile Defense: +13 (Avoiding pitched battle, your forces use counter-offense to fight conflict outside of urban areas and prevent a pitched siege or major battle)


 * Fort and heavy trench defences: +7


 * Medium Trench lines: +5

Support:
 * Light defensive fortifications: +3


 * Heavy Air Support: +15 (400+ aircraft)


 * Heavy Armor/Mechanized Support: +15 (400+ armored or mechanized vehicles)


 * Heavy Fleet Support: +15 (Consists of at least 1 Fleet Carrier/Supercarrier, 1 Ballistic Missile submarine, or 2 battleships and attendant Fleet


 * Medium Air Support: +10 (150-399 Aircraft)


 * Medium Army/Mechanized Support: +10 (200-399 Armored or Mechanized Vehicles)


 * Medium Fleet Support: +10 (1 Escort Carrier, or 1 Battleship + attendant Fleet)


 * Light Air Support: +5 (0-149 aircraft)


 * Light Armor Support: +5 (0-199 armored vehicles)

Troops: Troops will be handled in the case of the total concentration of troops you have on that particular Front. For every 100,000 troops you will be gaining a +10 in an algo every derivative of this will scale proportionally so that means ev ery 10,000 troops is +1. hence having a large amount of troops can in fact save you in an algorithm, but at the cost of Atrocious casualties for this cost of Battle. This does not mean you can just throw millions of troops into an algorithm and win, you do in fact need to proportionally attack a nation to simulate a the real cost of war. One would not simply throw millions of German troops into an attack on Bulgaria when a much more force appropriate response would be much more cost effective.
 * Light Fleet Support: +5 (battlegroup consistent of 7 or more ships destroyer or larger but not including capital ships)

Ships will be handled in a much more specific fashion. You will specifically have to keep track of how many ships your nation maintains (if you dont it will be assumed you do not have a navy or it is in port and will not be used). Along side this, a Local navy would need to be beaten in order to conduct any sort of Amphibious invasion, and fleets in being (as in a fleet in port that forces planning around it) will also be used. If a fleet is in port and you wish to conduct an invasion or coastal attack you would still need to deal with the Fleet which would come out to meet you almost definitely. the Geography of this as well will come into play with nearby fleets. A Nearby fleet could easily come around and help a beleaguered allied fleet which would in turn shift the tide of the battle. Supply ships are for the most part counted as non combatant but targets nonetheless.


 * Carriers: +25


 * Battleships: +20


 * Battlecruisers: +15


 * Cruisers: +13


 * Destroyers: +10
 * Attack Submarines: +10


 * Frigates: +7


 * Corvettes: +5

Chance: Chance will be calculated as such. The last number of each player's edit count will be divided by 3.14 and then multiplied by 2. This will allow for a random enough number. in the case of Decimals we will always round down.
 * Fleets, and Battle Groups cannot be exceedingly huge in this era. Realistically you cannot be fielding fleets in the hundreds against each other effectively. Effective combat sizes are fleets between 20-50 and battlegroups from about 3-20 ships.In order for an allied fleet to come an assist it must be within a relatively close distance and cannot be coming from across the planet to aid. Fleet actions were mostly decided within a day or two and in most cases less. Hence a fleet must be within a week's travel of the decisive engagement

Total:

Casualties: For now are mod decided but a true equation to handle casualties will come up soon.

Tiers
Quality

Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3
 * Germany
 * United Kingdom
 * USA
 * Canada
 * Australia
 * Japan
 * Netherlands
 * Spain
 * Austria Hungary
 * Italy
 * New Zealand
 * Switzerland

All European nations not listed. Tier 4 Tier 5
 * Republic of China
 * Brazil
 * Argentina
 * South Africa
 * Siam
 * Mexico
 * Rest of South America
 * Ethiopia
 * Persia
 * Ottoman Empire
 * Russia
 * Soviet Union
 * Liberia
 * Tibet

Quanity
Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier 4 Tier 5
 * Republic of China
 * United Kingdom
 * German Empire
 * United States
 * France
 * Soviet Union
 * Japan
 * Austria Hungary
 * Brazil
 * Italy
 * Argentina
 * Rest of Europe (Not mentioned anywhere else)
 * Siam
 * Netherlands
 * Ethiopia
 * Rest of South America
 * Australia
 * Denmark
 * Norway
 * Finland
 * South Africa
 * Afghanistan
 * Andorra
 * Liberia
 * Vatican city
 * Liechtenstein
 * Tibet
 * Cuba
 * San Marino

Supremacy System

 * The Supremacy System is the system for the spheres of influence, and coincides with the Ambition System. It determines the extent of an ideology's sphere of influence and the power projection of the great power or superpower in control of the ideology.
 * 1) Expand your sphere of influence as long as it is within your capability to do so.
 * There will be events to crumble spheres of influence if the sphere of influence can either be incapable of sustaining itself economically, socially or politically, military conflict or the sphere of influence becomes too powerful. So, be careful about political overextension.