Espionage.

[Vance]

Espionage.

This works in any game where you are playing with tech.  At the beginning of your turn you can buy 1 die to roll.  You can spend between 1 and 5 IPCs.  Your likelihood of successful espionage increases the more you spend.

$1= 1 hits
$2= 1 or 2 hits
$3= 1, 2 or 3 hits
$4= 1, 2, 3 or 4 hits
$5= 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 hits

For instance if you spend $2 and roll a 1 or 2 then your espionage is successful.  If you spend $5 you will be successful if you roll anything but a 6.

If you are successful, you now roll a second die to see the outcome of your espionage.

Espionage chart.
1) Steal enemy technology - you get 1 tech of your choosing that is owned by an enemy power, and they lose it
2) Copy enemy technology - you get 1 tech of your choosing that is owned by an enemy power, and they keep it
3) Sabotage enemy technology - you get nothing, but an enemy power loses 1 technology of your choosing.
4) Copy technology from a friend- you get 1 tech of your choosing that is owned by a friendly power, so you both have it
5) Share technology with a friend - a friendly power of your choosing also gets a technology that you already have
6) Double crossed - You get nothing but an enemy power of their choosing gets to share one of your technologies!

 

[knp7765]

This would work well with Grasshopper's Tech Tree, don't you think? The purchase and rolling seems to be a similar system.

One question: If you did use it with Grasshopper's Tech Tree, if an enemy spy caused you to lose one of your technologies, would that lower your level of dice rolling? EG: You have achieved the level where you can roll a D8. Enemy spy steals or destroys the tech you attained. Do you have to go back to D6, or can you still roll D8?

[Vance]

Not sure, but i think you'd have to go back.

[Young Grasshopper]

I first changed espionage to read: steal one technology from an enemy power, but for the consistent progression up the tech ladder, I thought it was to powerful. So I changed my espionage to read: you may develop any technology that an enemy power possesses. This way you have choice, but your enemy keeps their technologies they earned. Vance's rule is different and ment to work with the original R&D system, but if Vance wants to make an espionage house rule within my R&D ladder house rule, that would be very cool, but I don't want to mess with the simplicity of my tech ladder as it stands.

[Vance]

yeah this one is more of a funny rule that people could play with in a not-so-serious game.  "hey you stole my rockets!" kind of thing.

[Gargantua]

I think each country should have 6 of their OWN techs.

That means with Espionage, depending on how you do it, you could legitimately steal other countries techs, which would be DIFFERENT from your own.

[crusaderiv]

Espionnage rules should effect the situation on the battle field,piece movement and or player turn.

[Der Kuenstler]

Sounds like a fun and creative idea to try! I like the doublecross on "six" - makes it more of a gamble.