GP

My partner, Asim and I played Germany in the GP. There were many tough decisions that were to be made at the start and to the end of the game. First choosing allies, was a hard decision to make because you had to make sure you aren't being allies with one of your other allies enemies. USA and France were the countries with the most advantage at the start of the game, probably becuase of the economic units they recieved to start with. They were strong countries but during the game, other colonies, like russia were able to catch up by planning, and choosing what to buy with their economic units. France's idea of waiting the first year and not making any allies was very smart because they then had the advantage to see which empire they want to join. Germany started out with a good number of economic points but during the middle of the game,we made many wrong decisions like helping out during a war and loosing more than getting back though we won the war.
At the start of the game, we bought alot of armies. That helped other empires defend and fight wars. But towards the end we wished we bought more industries and colonies becuase they add on extra econimic points. Industries dont seem important becuase they dont help you fight wars when it comes to seeing who has more becuase the amount of navy and army that an empire has is whats counted. But the reason an empire will have thier armies or navies at all is depended upon the amount of colonies and the amount of industries that you have. Navies are completely useless. You can fight with them in a war but they are only worth half of armies. Germany kept a very strong army in the begginning and many empires came to us to become allies. Even in wars, we saved them from loosing to other very strong empires like USA and France. If we were to play this game again, buying colonies and industries in the start of the game would help us a great amount for the long run.
Germany had many allies, all except for USA. We were allies with Japan but we broke off the treaties because they had joined the USA too. However, we were allies with France , who too were allies with USA but it needed to be made sure the France would not attack us. Japan did not have a very strong army and it did not matter if they were to attack us becuase Russia or great britan would help us, and Russia espeically had a strong army, and us put toghether is even stronger. During the game, i learnt you can't trust any of your allies becuase they might have made allies with your enemy too and they can always back out on helping you in a war. Also its a right that they help the other empire because they made allies with both sides.
During this game, i learnt that before getting straight to building an army, you should start with colonies and industries that will help you on the longer run. Another fact that i learnt is that you have to make sure you don't double cross your allies becuase they are all greedy just like your own empire. They want to take whenever they have that chance to take, and so they will just join these wars that started out small which became a "great war". I also learnt that conflicts dont always profit your empire becuase even when you win, you don't always get more than what you provided for the war.