Hidden techs?

[Lone rider]

Underhanded Submersible warfare:

When conventional warfare at sea fails to destroy the enemy,
perhaps its time to consider the unconventional schemes of inventive madman.

havnt got this tech yet, are gonna trade when i got the money for it, however does anyone else found this tech, it isnt on the research list so Im woundring how to get without trading for it.

[Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh]

As far as I understand, the second you click on an Empire TW map, it loses any dregs of Historical accuracy that had been attached to it.

This does not belong to VV.

[zerathule]

I have at least one campaign with GB with all techs discovered.
Never seen it, and never saw the ability to create submarines.
Please note that a prototype submarine was being tested in French rivers during the revolution, designed by some american guy.
It never interested Napoleon ...

[DuffDog]

I heard it was a unique tech for one faction or another but pretty sure it wasn't gb, maybe they traded for it?

Also as was said before there was a guy trying to sell submarines to nations I think he tried the brits first then the french when they weren't interested.

In fact:

Early history of submarines and the first submersibles
The first submersible with reliable information on its construction was built in 1620 by Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, a Dutchman in the service of James I of England. It was created to the standards of the design outlined by English mathematician William Bourne. It was propelled by means of oars. The precise nature of the submarine type is a matter of some controversy; some claim that it was merely a bell towed by a boat. Two improved types were tested in the Thames between 1620 and 1624. In 2002 a two-man version of Bourne's design was built for the BBC TV programme Building the Impossible by Mark Edwards, and successfully rowed under water at Dorney Lake, Eton.

The first military submarines


The Nautilus (1800)
The first military submarine was Turtle (1775), a hand-powered egg-shaped device designed by the American David Bushnell to accommodate a single man. It was the first verified submarine capable of independent underwater operation and movement, and the first to use screws for propulsion. During the American Revolutionary War, Turtle (operated by Sgt. Ezra Lee, Continental Army) tried and failed to sink the British warship HMS Eagle, flagship of the blockaders in New York harbor on September 7, 1776.
In 1800, France built a human-powered submarine designed by American Robert Fulton, the Nautilus. The French eventually gave up on the experiment in 1804, as did the British when they later considered Fulton's submarine design.

I think the same Robert Fulton designed the first torpedos also, which the British used in a number of their cutting out attempts at Brest or another French port.

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It should be "Unrestricted submarine warfare" and only be available to Prussia

[Captian Barbossa]

Very interesting find. I don't remember seeing any submarine models in the models.pack though.

[Thanatos]

Thread moved to Gameplay and Strategy Discussion. PM me if you have any questions. - Thanatos

[Spraetter]

I've had this technology offered to me, so I accepted to see what it did. It does nothing. I've had it as Sweden, Prussia and Great Britain, and it has not given me any additional options. It's either something unfinished that got left in the game, or it's an Easter Egg of some sort.

[S-te-Fan]

Let's hope it's something unfinished thing, like te wagon forts in M2TW. Or maybe we can activate it with a future expansion/downloadable content.