Great Powers Game

1. Which country were you? How did it feel to build your empire? Which countries had the advantage at the start of the game? Why? How did your empire compare to other empires?

1 A. We were Great Britain, and it was actually very fun building our empire. We kept buying a bunch of industries and doubling our money and then we bought like 300 armies. So we were rich and powerful. The countries with the advantages at the beginning were USA and us, Great Britain, because we both could buy four things at the beginning, and so we got bigger quicker. Except we killed USA later... I think we were pretty powerful. We had many industries and loads of armies so we could take on practically any other country. Except Germany, which we would have been able to defeat if Italy hadn't helped them. Some of the other empires were really weak, and depended on their allies to help them in case of a war.


2. In the long run was it more important to buy armies, navies, industries or colonies? Why?

2 A. It was most important to buy armies, but in order to do that you had to have many industries and colonies. You always had to be ready for a war because you never know when someone was going to attack you, so it was important to have armies.


3. What did you do well? What would you have done differently?

3 A. I think we did well in getting powerful. We planned what we were going to buy and when and ended up with many industries and armies. If I could change something, I would have never attacked Germany and then both of us would have been winners. Or I would have been allies with Italy so they would have helped us in the war against Germany.


4. How successful were your alliances? Did they help or hurt you? Could they be trusted?

4 A. Our alliances weren’t very successful. They depended on us to help them in case of a war. They didn’t help us because we didn’t need their help, except in the war with Germany when all of them joined in to give us armies. Our alliances, except USA, could be trusted. I wouldn’t tell them everything incase they were going to attack us and needed to know how many armies we had, but otherwise we trusted them not to go to the other side.


5. What are three specific things you learned about conflict from this simulation?

5 A. I learned that you can never trust anyone. Your closest friends will stab you in the back when they see that the other side is getting more powerful. I also learned that in order to be powerful, you need to have a lot of money to buy armies with.