By the way, this is my Germany. I sadly haven't been able to get any wacky colonies since I've been sandwiched between... Every single Great Power.
However, after 60 years of constant war, France trying to take away my cores, Austria trying to bully me, releasing a few nations to keep my infamy down, the fucking Dutch slandering me, and the Russians looming threateningly over me, GERMANY STRONK at second place. Unfortunately, now all of these bums owe me money. Literally, I'm more or less bankrolling everybody else because I'm the single biggest creditor nation in the world.
My current issue is keeping everybody else in their place and therefore from ganging up on me. Austria-Hungary did propose to join me but I had to turn them down because it would have been over my infamy limit, so I figure I'll have to keep sniping turf from them.
I honestly don't know where to go from here except MAYBE creep into first place by bullying the other great powers, which sucks, cuz I would have liked to have some wacky colonies. German Japan, anybody XD
I have some West African colonial land but sadly France keeps beating me in the colonial races. I managed to steal Algiers from them but that didn't seem to affect them very much.
Any tips? I was thinking maybe using the fact that these guys all owe me money somehow to my advantage but I'm not sure how I'd go about doing that.
Also, the liberals keep shrinking my military score so I get the feeling it's time to bring the Conservatives back -_-