Powerful, yet slow and costly, Trunk technologies represent fundamental changes to your faction's society, granting new units, buildings and abilities — for instance, researching Mechanisation unlocks more powerful aircraft and tanks, while the penultimate Trunk tech, Atomic Power, grants access to nuclear bombs.
Industrial Era
"I would stay out, and work hard as long as possible, then return home at night jaded and tired, go to bed and fall asleep." — Rabindranath Tagore
Basic era
Mass Manufacturing
"Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black." — Henry Ford
Cost: 500, 500
Mechanisation
"We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them." — Erich Fromm
Cost: 1,000; 500
Electronics
"We will bring out for them a creature made of Earthly material which will tell them that the people have been uncertain regarding Our revelations." — The Qur'an (27:82)
Cost: 1,500; 750
Synthetics
"He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing and jazz — everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime." — Evelyn Waugh
Cost: 2,500; 1,000
Atomic Power
"Now you are death, the Destroyer of Worlds!" — Bhagavad Gita
Cost: 3,750; 1,500
Science research
Unlike Rise of Nations, Science research needs oil in order to operate. AND a lot of it too. Although the first 2 or 3 tiers will cost knowledge not oil, other tiers will soon require much oil in addtion to be successfully researched.
Relativity
"What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?" - Albert Einstein
Cost: 100
Unlocks University
Ecology
"We all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little." - Oscar Wilde
Cost: 160; 120
Unlocks Granary and Sawmill
Statistics
"How do you decide a battle is lost? Numbers, strategic advantage, positioning? It's all worth a sparrow's fart." - David Gemmell
Cost: 400; 160
Unlocks Foundry
Required for unique bomber aircraft upgrades (France doesn't need it)
Microbiology
"What is the good of a newborn baby?" - Benjamin Franklin
Cost: 600; 300
Jet Propulsion
"I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve." — Charles Lindbergh
Cost: 1,000, 500
Unlocks rocket infantry: Panzerschreck, Bazooka and PIAT
(required for Me-262 and Ohka suicide bomber)
Computational Systems
"Suppose now that technology were no mere means, how would it stand with the will to master it?" - Martin Heidegger
Cost: 1,600; 900
Unlocks rocket launch pad
(req for some German "super-weapons", notably the Goliath, and SAM sites)
Nuclear Physics
"E=mc^2"
Cost: 2,000; 1,500
Unlocks access to nuclear weapons from the rocket launch pad.
Commerce research
Timber is no longer required. Rather, food will be required to complete commerce research.
Scientific Management
"The workman who is best suited to handling pig iron is unable to understand the real science of doing his work. " — Frederick Taylor
Cost: 100
Radio Broadcast
"Our English radio broadcasts are being taken with deadly seriousness in England. Lord Haw-Haw's name is on everybody lips."— Joseph Goebbels
Cost: 160; 100
Unlocks National Assembly
Fiscal Reserves
Every penny gives the right vote. — Ludwig von Mises
Cost: 200; 160
Stock Exchange
"Finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples: the economy becomes nomadic, [and] life uprooted."— Alfred Rosenberg
Cost: 360; 250
Mass Communication
The public are swine; advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket. — George Orwell
Cost: 650; 400
Financial Regulation
"The conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."— Adam Smith
Cost: 1,300; 850
National Infrastructure
"Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God." — Isaiah 40:3
Cost: 1,800; 1,200
(required to build super battleship projects, SAM defence system, missile systems)
Civics research
In addition to expanding your empire, Civics is required to purchase loan vehicles, especially with Pacts and Alliances which replaces the military tech requirement of loan vehicles and units.
Peviously food was required for Civics research. Now it will be wealth that will be required to fuel your civics research.
Realpolitik
"I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses." —Adolf Hitler
Cost: 100
(unlocks Prison, Temple)
Populism
"We shall carve our way through the enemy's ranks, or if God wills, we shall die a martyr's death." — Subhas Chandra Bose
Cost: 100; 100
(unlocks National Assembly)
Separation of Powers
"The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they sleep in the night." — Otto von Bismarck
Cost: 240; 100
Intergovernmental Initiative
"We are not Duke Xiang of Song and have no use for his idiotic virtue and morality." —Mao Zedong
Cost: 460; 340
New Deal
"More than machinery we need humanity." - Charlie Chaplin
Cost: 500; 500
Pacts and Alliances
"I believe it is peace in our time." - Neville Chamberlain
Cost: 900, 700
unlocks Capitalism, State Property and Militarism from the National Assembly.
required to grant access to loaned weapons
Superpower
"France cannot be France without greatness." - Charles de Gaulle
Cost: 1250; 1000
Military research
In addition to effects explained in exhaustive detail elsewhere, Military research is now required to unlock various armoured vehicles:
Level 2 for heavy tank line.
Level 3 to upgrade flamethrowers and to introduce flame tanks;
Level 4 for modern tanks, anti-tank artillery and AT conversions
Level 6 for SPG and assault conversions
Arms Dealers
"Would you pay that price for an object however worthy it may appear to you to be?" —Mahatma Gandhi, to Adolf Hitler
Cost: 100
(opens up access to Airfield, Pillbox and Armoury)
Homeland Security
"Have you ever seen how captured criminals sleep? They sleep quietly, they enjoy their new security." —Nietzsche
Cost: 100; 100
(opens up access to Heavy Engineering Depot, Naval Yard - and tanks in general)
PsyOps
(required for flame weapons - opens up access to Bunker) "We must create an impression of mastery. Anyone who opposes us and what we believe in must be shot." — Emilio Mola, Spanish Civil War general
Cost: 200; 160
Armoured Corps Doctrine
"If the tanks succeed, then victory follows." —Heinz Gulderian
Cost: 650; 400
Required for further upgrades of all tanks from [2] onward, this is replaced by political research if on loan from someone else.
Unlocks attack aircraft for all factions other than France and Japan.
Unlocks AT guns and tank destroyer conversions at Foundry
Nation-in-Arms
"War is the natural state of the people!" — Benito Mussolini
Combined Arms Approach
"All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters, either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role." — George S Patton
Required to unlock SPG conversions at Foundry
Guided Munitions
(required for SAM defence system, Missile Silo) "Civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war." — Carl von Clausewitz
