The Scramble for Africa

In Friday's game, we were playing as Great Britain, which at first we thought was an advantage because Great Britain was a really powerful country back then, and our only real competition was France. But when we started playing we were completely torn to pieces by the Netherlands. We got the advantage (or disadvantage) of starting first. One of the things we needed was to get the Suez canal and to find Iron, Petroleum, and Zinc. We started by first getting the Suez canal and marked some dots there. But by the second round the Netherlands wanted to negotiate and tricked us by getting some of our squares in exchange for theirs. Later they went to a 'war' with us and got their parts back, and after that they just kept attacking. But before that, we also checked our text books and found places where our resources were. We found iron, petroleum, but we didn't know were to find zinc. Still, we got most of our resources until the Netherlands came and crushed us.

I think that either France or the Netherlands won the game. They both got a lot of land and all of the resources that they needed. They conquered other countries and defeated European ones. They both had the most squares.

The teams that lost were Great Britain, (us : ) and Spain. Obviously Britain lost because we didn't get all of our resources and no access to the Suez canal. Spain lost because they didn't get ANY of the resources that they needed and also they were surrounded by all the other countries that could attack at any time they wanted.