Intelligence agency

The main screen of your intelligence agency, where you can upgrade your agency, choose operations or decrypt enemy's ciphers.

An intelligence agency is required for most of the espionage actions. It requires investing 5-15 civilian factories for 30 days to become operational.

Operatives[edit | edit source]

Main article: Operatives

Operatives are your agents working in the field under your agency. They can perform different missions on map or conduct operations. You gain one operative when you set up your agency, and an additional operative after five agency upgrades. You can get additional operatives from advisors ("Illusive Gentleman"), via national focus or from being the spy master of your faction.

Missions[edit | edit source]

Main article: Missions

Operatives can perform various missions on the map. The strength and impact of a mission generally depends on the size and strength of your spy network.

Operations[edit | edit source]

Main article: Operations

Operations become available to you after sufficient intel network has been established in the target country. All available operations can be found under the "Operations" tab in your Intelligence agency.

Agency upgrades[edit | edit source]

All agency upgrades are divided into 5 branches: Intelligence, Defense, Operations, Operative Training and Cryptology Department. Every upgrade requires a variable amount of civilian factories to be invested for 30 days, but this time can be shortened by -15% (to effectively 25 days) if you employ an Illusive Gentleman advisor.

Intelligence branch[edit | edit source]

Intelligence branch consists of 4 upgrades, one for each field of intel:

Name	Effect	Civilian factory cost	Prerequisites
Economy/civilian	Civilian Intelligence: +25%	5	-
Army Department	Army Intelligence: +25%	5	-
Naval Department	Naval Intelligence: +25%	5	-
Airforce Department	Air Intelligence: +25%	5	-

Defense branch[edit | edit source]

Defense branch interacts with operatives' missions. Counter-intelligence bonus from Passive Defence increases execution time of hostile operations on your territory and increases chances of stopping enemy's Operatives. Anti-partisan upgrade increases effectiveness of Root Out Resistance of your Operatives.

Icon	Name	Effect	Civilian factory cost	Prerequisites
	Passive defense	Counter intelligence: +1.5 for the first upgrade Counter intelligence: +1.25 for the second upgrade Counter intelligence: +1 for the third upgrade Counter intelligence: +1 for the fourth upgrade	5	-
	Anti-partisan	Root Out Resistance mission effects: +25% for the first upgrade Root Out Resistance mission effects: +25% for the second upgrade	5	-

Operations branch[edit | edit source]

Operations branch upgrades increase chances for positive results and decreases risk of your operations.

Name	Effect	Civilian factory cost	Prerequisites
Blueprint stealing	Steal Blueprint effectiveness: +25%	5	-
Portable radios	Coordinated Strike effectiveness: +100%	8	Has researched Radio
Invisible ink	Intelligence gained from Operatives and Infiltrated Assets: +20% Steal Blueprint risk: -25%	5	-
Plastic explosives	Targeted Sabotage efficiency: +25% Strengthen Resistance efficiency: +25%	8	-
Suicide pills	Death chance of our Operative on capture: +10% Own operative detection chance offset: -0.05%	5	-

Operative training branch[edit | edit source]

Operative training branch upgrades improve effects of certain missions your Operatives can perform in field and provide improvements for the Operatives pool.

Name	Effect	Civilian factory cost	Prerequisites
Localized training centers	Enemy nationality recruit chance: +25% Occupied friendly nationality recruit chance: +25% Operative recruitment choices: +1 Unlocks Local Agent Recruitment Decisions	10	-
Commando training	Chance of recruiting an Operative with the Commando trait: +100%	5	-
Interrogation techniques	Enemy operative capture chance: +100% Enemy operative intel extraction rate: +25%	5	-
Diplomatic Training	Control Trade mission effects: +25% Diplomatic Pressure mission effects: +25%	5	-
Psychological Warfare	Propaganda mission effects: +25% Boost ideology mission effects: +25%	8	-

Cryptology department branch[edit | edit source]

Cryptology department branch unlocks and improves the cipher decryption mechanic.

Name	Effect	Civilian factory cost	Prerequisites
Form Department	Decryption power: +25 Cryptology Level: +1 Unlock Cryptology Department: Yes	8	-
Radio Interception Group	Decryption Power: +25 for the first upgrade Decryption Power: +10 for the second upgrade	5	Has completed Agency Upgrade Form Department
Machine-Assisted Decryption	Decryption Power: +25 for the first upgrade Decryption Power: +15 for the second upgrade Decryption Power: +10 for the third upgrade	10	Has completed Agency Upgrade Radio Interception Group Has researched Mechanical Computing
Government Cypher School	Cryptology level: +1 for the first upgrade Cryptology level: +1 for the second upgrade	5	Has completed Agency Upgrade Form Department
Machine-Assisted Encryption	Cryptology level: +2 for the first upgrade Cryptology level: +2 for the second upgrade Cryptology level: +2 for the third upgrade	15	Has completed Agency Upgrade Government Cypher School Has researched Mechanical Computing

Cryptology[edit | edit source]

Cipher decryption mechanic uses two stats: Cryptology strength and Decryption power.

Cryptology strength can be described as a defensive stat for your ciphers, while Decryption power is your offensive stat.

Every day, your Decryption power adds up towards decryption of selected ciphers.

In order to decrypt an enemy's cipher, you have to accumulate your Decryption power until it reaches your opponent's Cryptology strength.

Starting Cryptology level is 0, which requires you to accumulate 12000 Decryption power.

Each upgrade in Cryptology level increases the net pool by 4250, so with Cryptology level 7 your enemy will have to reach 41750 net Decryption power. The formula will look like this:

{\text{Total Cryptology strength}}=12000+4250\cdot {\text{Cryptology level}}

It is possible to decrypt multiple codes at once, but your Decryption power will be split into even parts as well, i.e. if you have 50 Decryption power and are trying to break the codes of two countries at once, you will invest 25 Decryption power towards decrypting one opponent's cipher and 25 - towards another. However, if you pause the decrypting process for one country, all your Decryption power will be used for the other code.

Additionally, countries not at war suffer a 50% percent decryption penalty.

Cracked code provides you with following passive bonuses against the target country:

Air detection: +5.0%
Interception Mission Efficiency: +5%
Decrypted Civilian Cipher Bonus: +10%
Decrypted Army Cipher Bonus: +10%
Decrypted Navy Cipher Bonus: +10%
Decrypted Airforce Cipher Bonus: +10%

You can also reveal intel about the cracked codes to the enemy, which will grant you active bonuses on top of the passive ones for 30 days:

Invasion Penalty: -15%
Planning Speed: +50.0%
Defense bonus against country: +15.0%
Invasion Preparation Speed: +50.0%
Breakthrough bonus against country: +15.0%
Decrypted Civilian Cipher Bonus: +50%
Decrypted Army Cipher Bonus: +50%
Decrypted Navy Cipher Bonus: +50%
Decrypted Airforce Cipher Bonus: +50%

After 30 days opponent will change cipher and your decryption progress will be reset to 50%.

Becoming the Spy Master[edit | edit source]

Once you have upgraded your agency at least 3 times, are independent or a Dominion, and you are a part of a faction, you can choose to invest 50 PP to become this faction's Spy Master.

Spy Master status provides you with an additional spy for every two independent nations and high autonomy puppets (Dominion, Satellite, Imperial Subject, Supervised State) in your faction. It is also dependent on the other nations’ industry. From 0 - 10 factories the nation will contribute 0 spies, for 10 - 49 factories the nation will contribute 1/4 of a spy, for 50+ factories the nation will contribute 1/2 of a spy.

For example, when Germany is a Spy Master for the Axis and it puppets Slovakia, it will not receive an additional operative. When Italy joins the Axis, because it has more than 50 factories, Germany will gain 1/2 of a spy and give you an additional operative. If Romania becomes a satellite and it has 10 - 49 factories, Germany will get a 1/4 of a spy.