My country was Germany. To begin with we were one of the middle class countries, not rich yet not poor. The countries with the most advantages were the ones you had the most most money at the beginning of the game (UK and the USA). I think this is because of the Industrial Revolution, in which they made lots of money and formed many colonies.
At the beginning of the game it was harder to build our empire because we didn't know who our allies were as well as not knowing who our enemies were. Once we established a form of treaties between a handful of countries it was easier to carry on with building our empire. After awhile we realized that a lot of people were planning on attacking us and our allies. Because of this reason we started to buy a lot of armies and navies. Buying armies to soon and to fast was our big mistake. Although we ended up coming in 2nd we could have easily come first if we had waited to buy armies till the round before the great war. It would have been better to buy a lot of industries first because then our country would be wealthy and therefore we could buy more armies.
Germany made many allies and only one of them turned on us. There were two main groups in the game, the U.K group and Germany's group. Both groups were planning on attacking one another toward the end of the game. What our and U.K's allies didn't know was that secretly the U.K and Germany were actually planning on turning on everybody and winning. In the end, the U.K turned on us and got support from all the small countries while we get support from just Italy. Only what they didn't know was that Germany and Italy had anticipated this and had told the U.K the wrong information about how many armies we had, thus Germany and the U.K won.
What I learnt about this simulation is not to trust anyone. Although, Germany never got attacked by any of their allies, it was hard to see other countries become poor simply because they put to much trust into their treaty.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
GREAT POWERS GAME!
Posted by Aysha at 5:31 AM
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Aysha, you appear to have done fairly well in the great powers game. I think you are correct about your conclusion that the starting economic powers were based on the results of the industrial revolution. I don’t think everyone picked up on that. Congratulations on figuring that out. I think that at the start of the game, it is more important to focus on building up a strong empire than it is to forge a lot of alliances, but I think both can be accomplished successfully at the same time. My thinking on this is that the stronger you are, the more people will want to become allies with you. You said you stocked up on armies and navies earlier than necessary. I have two points to make about this: 1) why would you stock up on navies? They’re only half as effective as armies, and they both cost the same amount. 2) Isn’t it better to buy half armies and half industries? That way you get more economic power AND have a military to defend yourself against attack.
Your third paragraph was a bit confusing to me. You said UK turned on you but you also said you and they were the winners. How is this possible? Also , I don’t quite agree with the conclusions you have drawn from the simulation. You can’t just not trust anyone, then when you’re attacked, you won’t have any support. I do agree with you that you shouldn’t put too much trust in a treaty just because it’s signed. I’m a little bit surprised that you only came to that conclusion. Maybe you only just posted that one though. Still, good job with the game and good job with the debrief.
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