/* well IMHO HQ is what you need more than GM. Golden features, golden rounds, building queue, rally points, pictures in your articles, free Recruiting Bureau .
If you want to play 100 and 500 - HQ is what wins the maps. You need some level of automatization fo your 2 0000 provinces. */
to the topic
Do you remember number of population and number of armies for them? I know that back in the days there were also factories in some points and some mechs with some Forts like Lemberg, Breslau and Konigsberg. Plus Germans and France had really good railway network.