The Kingdom of Prussia
The Kingdom of Prussia did not become the dominant power in Central Europe by being the loudest voice in the room. It got there by being the most prepared, the most organized, and the most willing to reshape its approach the moment the situation changed. Prussian commanders do not fall in love with their opening plan. They treat it as a starting position, a framework to be refined as the engagement develops and the enemy reveals where their thinking has gaps. By the time a Prussian fleet commits fully, it already knows exactly where it is going and exactly what it expects to find there.
Prussian aerial doctrine is built around control of effort. Other factions allocate their Command Points and execute. Prussian captains allocate, watch, and adjust, moving resources from one priority to another as the battle develops without losing the thread of the larger plan. A point held in reserve for movement becomes firepower when the angle opens. A defensive allocation becomes an offensive strike when the opponent overextends. This is not improvisation. It is structured flexibility, and it is the product of a command culture that trains its officers to think several turns ahead and act with precision when the moment arrives.
There is a patience to Prussian play that rewards commanders who are comfortable letting the battle come to them. Prussia does not need to win the opening exchange. It needs to win the correct exchange, the one it has been positioning toward since the first turn, the one the opponent did not realize was coming until the Command Points were already moving. The Prussian player who spends early turns observing, repositioning, and holding resources in reserve is not being passive. They are building toward a moment of concentrated effort that the opposing fleet has no prepared answer for.
Strategic Insight captures this at the individual ship level, the ability to take an unspent Command Point from any category and redirect it where it is needed most, keeping every Prussian vessel in a constant state of calibrated readiness rather than locked into decisions made before the turn began.
Faction Trait: Strategic Insight
Once per round, during the Prussian airship's Turn, a Prussian airship may reassign 1 unspent Command Point from any category that still has unspent CPs, including Reaction, to any other category. The receiving category must still respect normal category limits. This ability may not be used during a Reaction.
And when the battle reaches its pivot point, when the Prussian commander has identified the moment and the target, Disciplined Allocation arrives. All unspent Command Points on one airship are fully reassigned plus five additional CPs added to the pool, turning careful preparation into a sudden concentrated strike that lands with a weight the opponent was not ready for.
Strategic Command: Disciplined Allocation
Once per game, choose one Prussian airship. That airship may fully reassign all of its unspent Command Points at that moment and add an additional 5 CPs to that remaining pool. This ability may be declared at any point during the airship's Turn. Command Points already spent before this ability is declared are not recovered. Only the CPs remaining at the moment of declaration are reassigned, plus the 5 bonus CPs. The reassigned CPs must still respect all normal category limits.
