Grepolis=Gamma=GrepoHugs; sorry but everything else is inferior.
We were always smaller than our competition until we won the real war continually fighting on 3 or 4 fronts against the other top 2-4 alliances.
This was before the time of World Wonders but at any given time we were in 3rd fighting the 1st & 2nd place, in points, along with maybe the 4th &/or 5th also being an enemy (although that 4th or 5th probably was 2nd in skill).
From the beginning of Gamma until weeks after we crushed the largest alliance the peanut gallery wrote us off as puny or decaying; we did not win because we were the largest (the first 2 years of gamma we never were), we became the largest because we won.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIWFKzCeSeo
Sincerely,
Rackhir
p.s. hope all is well with all y'all new & old...