[center][img]http://i.imgur.com/FK0BtFT.png[/img] [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]: 17] [[b]Maximum Contracts[/b]: 6] [[b]Current Remaining Contracts[/b]: 0][/center] [center][hider=Companies] [b][u]Porsche[/u][/b] - [[b]3 Factories[/b] - [[b]1 Reichsmarks[/b]] - [[b]0 Gold[/b]] - [[b]+1 Preference Rating[/b]] - [b][[color=green]Panzer Effectiveness[/color][/b]: 10] - [[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]: 9] - [[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]: 7] - [[b][color=yellow]TD Effectiveness[/color][/b]: 2] - [[b][color=red]SPA Effectiveness[/color][/b]: 0][/hider][/center] [center][hider=Technology Tree][img]https://i.imgur.com/KoLPnIS.png[/img][/hider][/center] [center][b]Turn 2 [u]Results[/u]: Late 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]The firm [b]Porsche[/b] builds two [b]Factories[/b].[/indent] 2. [b][u]Espionage[/u][/b] 3. [b][u]Design[/u][/b] [indent]The design manufacturer [b]Henschel & Son[/b] decides to build the [b]Panzer II Ausf B.[/b], adding nearly a quarter centimeter of armor on the front end with [b]Armor Plating[/b]. - [b]Henschel & Son[/b] Rolls for Effectiveness: Die Roll of [u][b]4[/b][/u] + 2 (Armor Plating) = Panzer Effectiveness of 6. The [b]Panzer II Ausf C[/b] never saw the light of day however, as [b]Henschel & Son[/b] immediately took a page out of Porsche's book and implemented streamlining to their factory lines, ensuring higher quality without sacrificing quantity. - [b]Henschel & Son[/b] Rolls for Effectiveness: Die Roll of [u][b]3[/b][/u] + 4 (Armor Plating, Streamlining) = Panzer Effectiveness of 7. [center][img]http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/nazi_germany/Light_Tanks/Panzer-II/Panzer_II_Ausfc.png[/img] [i]Panzer II Ausf C, designed by Henschel & Son[/i][/center] Similarly, [b]Krupp[/b] worked on their own version of the [b]Panzer II[/b], inserting a 260 hp Krupp licensed built Daimler-Benz engine to increase both speed and range of their own Panzer II, already nicknamed [b]Panzer II Kruppen[/b]. - [b]Krupp[/b] Rolls for Effectiveness: Die Roll of [u][b]6[/b][/u] + 2 (Better Engine) = Panzer Effectiveness of 8. Only days later, [b]Krupp[/b] followed Henschel & Son's decision to up armor the Panzer II, dding nearly a quarter centimeter of armor on the front end with [b]Armor Plating[/b]. - [b]Krupp[/b] Rolls for Effectiveness: Die Roll of [u][b]5[/b][/u] + 4 (Better Engine, Armor Plating) = Panzer Effectiveness of 9. [center][img]http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/nazi_germany/Light_Tanks/Panzer-II/Panzer_II_AusfA.png[/img] [i]Panzer II Kruppen prototype, late 1936[/i][/center][/indent] 4. [b][u]Research[/u][/b] [indent]German design firms [b]Krupp[/b] and [b]MAN[/b] conducted research at the tail end of 1936.[/indent] 5. [b][u]Banking[/u][/b] [indent]No banking occurred at this time.[/indent] [b][u]EVENT[/u][/b] [indent][b][u]Porsche[/u][/b]: [b][color=green]Kama Tank School[/color][/b]: [b]Add two[/b] to your [b]Panzer Effectiveness[/b]. [i]The Kama tank school was a secret training school for tank commanders operated by the German Reichswehr at Kazan, Soviet Union. It operated from 1929 to 1933. The school was established in order to allow the German military to circumvent the military restrictions on tank research spelled out in the Treaty of Versailles[/i].[/indent] [b][u]Award Contract Phase[/u][/b] [b]Breakdown[/b] - [b]Porsche[/b]: 10 Panzer Effectiveness | 1 Factory | +1 Political Preference - [b]Krupp[/b]: 9 Panzer Effectiveness | 4 Factories | 0 Political Preference - [b]Henschel & Son[/b]: 7 Panzer Effectiveness | 1 Factory | 0 Political Preference - [b]MAN[/b]: 6 Panzer Effectiveness | 3 Factories | 0 Political Preference [b]Wehrmacht Contracts[/b]: - [b]Porsche[/b] roll [b]1d6[/b] for [b]Contracts Awarded[/b]: 3 - [b]Porsche[/b] is awarded [b]3 Contracts[/b] ([i]Panzer II Light Tank[/i]) based on their [b]Panzer Effectiveness[/b], given that they have [b]3 Factories[/b] this is the maximum they can take on. They receive [b][color=green]$3 Reichsmarks[/color][/b]. - [b]Krupp[/b] roll [b]1d3[/b] for [b]Contracts Awarded[/b]: 3 - [b]Krupp[/b] is awarded [b]3 Contracts[/b] ([i]Panzer II Light Tank[/i]) based on their [b]Panzer Effectiveness[/b], given that they have [b]3 Factories[/b] this is the maximum they can take on. They receive [b][color=green]$3 Reichsmarks[/color][/b]. - [b]Henschel & Son[/b] cannot roll as there are no more contracts remaining. - [b]MAN[/b] cannot roll as there are no more contracts remaining. [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] [indent][b][i]The Great Purge[/i][/b] Purge trials, also called Great Purge, three widely publicized show trials and a series of closed, unpublicized trials held in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s, in which many prominent Old Bolsheviks were found guilty of treason and executed or imprisoned. All the evidence presented in court was derived from preliminary examinations of the defendants and from their confessions. It was subsequently established that the accused were innocent, that the cases were fabricated by the secret police (NKVD), and that the confessions were made under pressure of intensive torture and intimidation. The trials successfully eliminated the major real and potential political rivals and critics of Stalin. The trials were the public aspect of the widespread purge that sent millions of alleged “enemies of the people” to prison camps in the 1930s. The first trial opened in August 1936, while Genrikh G. Yagoda was head of the secret police. The main defendants were Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev, Lev Borisovich Kamenev, and Ivan Smirnov, all of whom had been prominent Bolsheviks at the time of the October Revolution (1917) and during the early years of the Soviet regime. With 13 codefendants they were accused of having joined Leon Trotsky in 1932 to form a terrorist organization in order to remove Stalin from power. The prosecution blamed the group for the assassination of Sergey Mironovich Kirov (December 1934) and suggested that it planned to murder Stalin and his close political associates. On August 24, 1936, the court found the defendants guilty and ordered their executions. The second trial opened in January 1937, after N.I. Yezhov had replaced Yagoda as chief of the NKVD. The major defendants were G.L. Pyatakov, G.Y. Sokolnikov, L.P. Serebryakov, and Karl Radek, all prominent figures in the Soviet regime. They and their 17 codefendants were accused of forming an “anti-Soviet Trotskyite centre,” which had allegedly collaborated with Trotsky to conduct sabotage, wrecking, and terrorist activities that would ruin the Soviet economy and reduce the defensive capability of the Soviet Union. They were accused of working for Germany and Japan and of intending to overthrow the Soviet government and restore capitalism. They were found guilty on January 30, 1937; Sokolnikov, Radek, and two others were given 10-year sentences, and the rest were executed. At the third trial (March 1938), the prosecution suggested that the Zinovyev–Trotsky conspiracy also included Nikolay Ivanovich Bukharin and Aleksey Ivanovich Rykov, the leaders of the right-wing opposition to Stalin that had been prominent in the late 1920s. Yagoda was also accused of being a member of the conspiracy, as were three prominent doctors who had attended leading government officials. A total of 21 defendants were accused of performing numerous acts of sabotage and espionage with the intent to destroy the Soviet regime, dismember the Soviet Union, and restore the capitalist system. They were also charged with responsibility for Kirov’s death, and it was alleged that Yagoda had ordered the three doctors to murder the former secret police chief V.R. Menzhinsky, the author Maxim Gorky, and a member of the Politburo, V.V. Kuibyshev. Bukharin was accused of having plotted to murder Lenin in 1918. Although one defendant, N.N. Krestinsky, retracted his guilty plea, and Bukharin and Yagoda skillfully responded to the prosecutor Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky’s questions to demonstrate their innocence, all the defendants except three were sentenced to death on March 13, 1938. [center][img]https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2017/02/13/Voroshilov_Molotov_Stalin_with_Nikolai_Yezhov-674x420.jpg[/img] [i]Premier Joseph Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov, the latter of whom was purged in 1937[/i][/center] In addition to the so-called show trials, a series of closed trials of top Soviet military leaders was held in 1937–38, in which a number of prominent military leaders were eliminated; the closed trials were accompanied by a massive purge throughout the Soviet armed forces. Stalin’s liquidation of experienced military leadership during this purge was one of the major factors contributing to the poor performance of Soviet forces in the initial phase of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. [[b][color=red]Soviets[/color][/b]: -3 Morale] [+1 [b]Maximum Contracts[/b]][/indent] [center][[b][u]Players[/u][/b] may send their Orders.] [[b]Orders Received[/b]: [b][color=green]Henschel & Son[/color][/b] | [b][color=green]Porsche[/color][/b] | [b][color=red]Krupp[/color][/b] | [b][color=red]MAN[/color][/b] | [b][color=red]Daimler-Benz[/color][/b]][/center]