1. I was Italy, with KJ. I thought it was fun to build an empire, but you have to think carefully through what to do, and be careful of what you choose, because if you chose wrongly you could end up losing! I think that the bigger countries had a greater advantage, since already from the start they had more money to spend. Our empire did ok, we didn’t do too badly, but we weren’t the best either. I think our empire was pretty small compared to the others.
2. In the long run I think armies and industries are more important to buy because you need the armies for defence and the industries to make money. The other countries had a lot of both, and if there was a war we needed to have a lot of armies, and to buy armies we needed industries. Armies are worth more than navies, and the colonies are good to buy before they run out, because then you have more territory.
3. What we did well in was probably what we bought was pretty balanced. What I would do differently would be to buy more colonies in the beginning before they run out, and get more alliances.
4. I think our alliances were pretty successful, because if we didn’t help each other, we would have lost against GB, America and Japan. I trusted most of them, since we were all against the same enemy. My country didn’t declare war, so of course no one helped or hurt us, but we helped other countries.
5. What I learnt from conflict was that it is important to have allies, but you should choose your allies carefully. At the same time, don’t trust them 100%. One country went up against one of their allies, showing that a treaty means nothing to some people. Also be well prepared with armies; don’t just buy like a lot of industries, and only a few armies, because you need to be prepared for the future! You should buy a balance of both armies and industries.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Great Powers Game Debrief
Posted by Hanna Yin at 8:13 AM
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I agree with you on what's more important to buy. I, myself, wasn't able to choose, I said I was undecided, but now that you put it that way, I see your reasoning on why you should buy armies and industries.
I also agree with your saying that the bigger countries had the greater advantage. But, let me ask you, do you really think that the bigger countries had the advantage because they were bigger or because they had a lot of power already in the beginning?
And since I was in an alliance with you, I know how you feel about one particular country break their treaty and not trusting people 100%.
I agree with your opinions. Your idea how the USA and GB were the most powerful and had greater advantages at the beginning of the game was correct. I don't really agree with your opinion how armies and industries were important. I think that armies were important, but i think you should have had only as much as you needed. You needed industries and colonies more because they determined your wealth at the very end. I also learnt about allies in this game, and how you should not trust people too much.
I agree with you hanna yin in alot of things because as you said that some countries had advantage from the beginning. They had more money form other countries. We had Italy and we know that it was hard for us to build the empire. Later it was fun because we created an alliance with other strong countries. U.S.A was one of the richest and strongest with the industrial powers. But finally we defeated them by teaming up with other countries by which U.S.A won over.
Overall the war game was fun and i had you so it really was awsome.
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