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[b][u]Morale[/u][/b]
[[b][color=gray]German Reich[/color][/b]: 21] [[b][color=pink]Allies[/color][/b]: 27] [[b][color=red]Soviet Union[/color][/b]: 20]

[[b]Maximum Contracts[/b]: 3] [[b]Current Remaining Contracts[/b]: 3][/center]
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[b][u]Porsche[/u][/b] - [[b]1 Factory[/b] - [[b]1 Reichsmarks[/b]] - [[b]0 Gold[/b]] - [[b]+1 Preference Rating[/b]] - [b][[color=green]Panzer Effectiveness[/color][/b]: 8] - [[b][color=yellow]TD Effectiveness[/color][/b]: 2] - [[b][color=red]SPA Effectiveness[/color][/b]: 0]
[b][u]Krupp[/u][/b] - [[b]4 Factories[/b]] - [[b]0 Reichsmarks[/b]] - [[b]0 Gold[/b]] - [[b]+0 Preference Rating[/b]] - [b][[color=green]Panzer Effectiveness[/color][/b]: 4] - [[b][color=yellow]TD Effectiveness[/color][/b]: 2] - [[b][color=red]SPA Effectiveness[/color][/b]: 0]
[b][u]MAN[/u][/b] - [[b]3 Factories[/b]] - [[b]2 Reichsmarks[/b]] - [[b]0 Gold[/b]] - [[b]+0 Preference Rating[/b]] - [[b][color=green]Panzer Effectiveness[/color][/b]: 4] - [[b][color=yellow]TD Effectiveness[/color][/b]: 2] - [[b][color=red]SPA Effectiveness[/color][/b]: 0]
[b][u]Henschel & Son[/u][/b] - [[b]3 Factories[/b]] - [[b]0 Reichsmarks[/b]] - [[b]0 Gold[/b]] - [[b]+0 Preference Rating[/b]] - [b][[color=green]Panzer Effectiveness[/color][/b]: 4] - [[b][color=yellow]TD Effectiveness[/color][/b]: 2] - [[b][color=red]SPA Effectiveness[/color][/b]: 0][/hider][/center]
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[center][b]Turn 1 [u]Results[/u]: Early 1936[/b]
[All [b]Actions[/b] occur in numerical order.][/center]
[center][[b][u]Action Phase[/u][/b]][/center]

1. [b][u]Build[/u][/b]
[indent][b]MAN[/b] finishes construction of two [b]Factories[/b].
[b]Henschel & Son[/b] finishes construction of two [b]Factories[/b].[/indent]
2. [b][u]Espionage[/u][/b]
[indent]No espionage occurred at this time.[/indent]
3. [b][u]Design[/u][/b]
[indent]Design manufacturer [b]Porsche[/b]--anticipating future orders from the Wehrmacht, institute [b]Streamlining[/b] to their development of the [b]Panzer II[/b] tank currently being designed and developed to eventually replace the much smaller [b]Panzer I[/b]. With compartmentalized production, Porsche workers were able to focus on two or three individual tasks on each tank, letting their coworkers worry about their own task and subsequently increasing workplace efficiency.
- [b]Porsche[/b] Rolls for [b]Effectiveness[/b]: Die Roll of [b][u]6[/u][/b] + 2 ([i]Streamlining[/i]) = [b]Panzer Effectiveness[/b] of 8.

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[i]Porsche weapons factory, Bavaria, March 1936[/i][/center][/indent]

[indent]Manufacturer [b]MAN[/b] similarly submits a design for a [b]Panzer II[/b] utilizing an [b]Improved Gun[/b] to a 2 cm KwK 30 L/55. The 2 cm KwK 30 L/55 was a German 2 cm cannon used primarily as the main armament of the German SdKfz.121 Panzerkampfwagen II light tank. It was used during the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. The KwK 30 also served as the basis for the 20 mm C/30, an aircraft variant that was mounted experimentally in some Heinkel He 112 fighters and proved to make an excellent ground-attack weapon during the Spanish Civil War. Direct ground-attack was not considered a priority for the Luftwaffe, however, and the cannon was not used on other designs.
- [b]MAN[/b] Rolls for [b]Effectiveness[/b]: Die Roll of [b][u]4[/u][/b] + 2 ([i]Improved Gun[/i]) = [b]Panzer Effectiveness[/b] of 6.

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[i]Panzer II Ausf B, manufactured by MAN[/i][/center][/indent]

4. [b][u]Research[/u][/b]
[indent]German manufacturers [b]Krupp, Henschel & Son[/b] and [b]Porsche[/b] spent very little downtime, instead sending their engineers to get to work on developing new technologies to win potential new contracts for the Wehrmacht.

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[i]Krupp engineers go back to the drawing board, 1936[/i][/center]
- [b]Krupp[/b] receives three [b][color=green]Event[/color][/b]/[b][color=red]Technology[/color][/b] ([i]Research + Focused Effort[/i]).
- [b]Porsche[/b] receives two [b][color=green]Event[/color][/b]/[b][color=red]Technology[/color][/b] ([i]Research[/i]).
- [b]Henschel & Son[/b] receives two [b][color=green]Event[/color][/b]/[b][color=red]Technology[/color][/b] ([i]Research[/i]).[/indent]
5. [b][u]Banking[/u][/b]
[indent]No banking occurred at this time.[/indent]

[b][u]Award Contract Phase[/u][/b]

[b]Breakdown[/b]
- [b]Porsche[/b]: 8 Panzer Effectiveness | 1 Factory | +1 Political Preference
- [b]MAN[/b]: 6 Panzer Effectiveness | 3 Factories | 0 Political Preference
- [b]Henschel & Son[/b]: 4 Panzer Effectiveness | 1 Factory | 0 Political Preference
- [b]Krupp[/b]: 4 Panzer Effectiveness | 4 Factories | 0 Political Preference

[b]Wehrmacht Contracts[/b]:
- [b]Porsche[/b] roll [b]1d3[/b] for [b]Contracts Awarded[/b]: 2
- [b]Porsche[/b] is awarded [b]1 Contract[/b] ([i]Panzer II Light Tank[/i]) based on their [b]Panzer Effectiveness[/b], given that they have only [b]1 Factory[/b] this is the maximum they can take on. They receive [b][color=green]$1 Reichsmark[/color][/b].

- [b]MAN[/b] roll [b]1d3[/b] for [b]Contracts Awarded[/b]: 3
- [b]Porsche[/b] is awarded [b]4 Contracts[/b] ([i]Panzer II Light Tank[/i]) based on their [b]Panzer Effectiveness[/b], given that there are only [b]2 Contracts[/b] remaining, that is the most they receive. They receive [b][color=green]$2 Reichsmarks[/color][/b].

[b][No Contracts Remaining][/b]

[b][u]Inflation Phase[/u][/b]
- [b]Skipped[/b] during [b]Peacetime[/b].

[b][u]Event Phase[/u][/b]
- No Events played.

[b][u]War Status Phase[/u][/b]
[b][i]Spanish Civil War[/i][/b]
[indent]The Spanish Civil War was a military revolt against the Republican government of Spain, supported by conservative elements within the country. When an initial military coup failed to win control of the entire country, a bloody civil war ensued, fought with great ferocity on both sides. The Nationalists, as the rebels were called, received aid from Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. The Republicans received aid from the Soviet Union, as well as from International Brigades, composed of volunteers from Europe and the United States.

A well-planned military uprising began on July 17, 1936, in garrison towns throughout Spain. By July 21 the rebels had achieved control in Spanish Morocco, the Canary Islands, and the Balearic Islands (except Minorca) and in the part of Spain north of the Guadarrama mountains and the Ebro River, except for Asturias, Santander, and the Basque provinces along the north coast and the region of Catalonia in the northeast. The Republican forces had put down the uprising in other areas, except for some of the larger Andalusian cities, including Sevilla (Seville), Granada, and Córdoba. The Nationalists and Republicans proceeded to organize their respective territories and to repress opposition or suspected opposition. Republican violence occurred primarily during the early stages of the war before the rule of law was restored, but the Nationalist violence was part of a conscious policy of terror. The matter of how many were killed remains highly contentious; however, it is generally believed that the toll of Nationalist violence was higher. In any event, the proliferation of executions, murders, and assassinations on both sides reflects the great passions that the Civil War unleashed.

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[i]Republican militia take aim at a passing Nationalist aircraft, September 1936[/i][/center]
The captaincy of the Nationalists was gradually assumed by General Franco, leading forces he had brought from Morocco. On October 1, 1936, he was named head of state and set up a government in Burgos. The Republican government, beginning in September 1936, was headed by the socialist leader Francisco Largo Caballero. He was followed in May 1937 by Juan Negrín, also a socialist, who remained premier throughout the remainder of the war and served as premier in exile until 1945. The president of the Spanish Republic until nearly the end of the war was Manuel Azaña, an anticlerical liberal. Internecine conflict compromised the Republican effort from the outset. On one side were the anarchists and militant socialists, who viewed the war as a revolutionary struggle and spearheaded widespread collectivization of agriculture, industry, and services; on the other were the more moderate socialists and republicans, whose objective was the preservation of the Republic. Seeking allies against the threat of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union had embraced a Popular Front strategy, and, as a result, the Comintern directed Spanish communists to support the Republicans.

Both the Nationalist and Republican sides, seeing themselves as too weak to win a quick victory, turned abroad for help. Germany and Italy sent troops, tanks, and planes to aid the Nationalists. The Soviet Union contributed equipment and supplies to the Republicans, who also received help from the Mexican government. During the first weeks of the war, the Popular Front government of France also supported the Republicans, but internal opposition forced a change of policy. In August 1936, France joined Britain, the Soviet Union, Germany, and Italy in signing a nonintervention agreement that would be ignored by the Germans, Italians, and Soviets. About 40,000 foreigners fought on the Republican side in the International Brigades largely under the command of the Comintern, and 20,000 others served in medical or auxiliary units.

German involvement in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 commenced with the outbreak of war in July 1936, with Adolf Hitler immediately sending in powerful air and armored units to assist General Francisco Franco and his Nationalist forces. The Soviet Union sent in smaller forces to assist the Republican government, while Britain and France and two dozen other countries set up an embargo on any munitions or soldiers into Spain. Germany also signed the embargo but simply ignored it. The war provided combat experience with the latest technology for the German military. However, the intervention also posed the risk of escalating into a world war for which Hitler was not ready. He therefore limited his aid, and instead encouraged Mussolini to send in large Italian units. Franco's Nationalists were victorious; he remained officially neutral in the Second World War, but helped the Axis in various ways from 1940 to 1943, even offering to join the war on 19 June 1940 in exchange for help building Spain's colonial empire. The Spanish episode lasted three years and was a smaller-scale prelude to the world war which broke out in 1939.

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[i]Spanish Panzer I tanks, October 1936[/i][/center]

German support for General Franco was motivated by several factors, including as a distraction from Hitler's central European strategy, and the creation of a Spanish state friendly to Germany to threaten France. It further provided an opportunity to train men and test equipment and tactics.

[[b][color=gray]German Reich[/color][/b]: +1 Morale]
[[b][color=pink]Allies[/color][/b]: -1 Morale]
[+1 [b]Maximum Contracts[/b]][/indent]