Take your time and get it right....

<t>EIA makes a player quickly decide what fights are worth fighting. When faced with a bad situation, one can only make it worse, in PP terms, by uselessly fighting on. Fighting usually means PP (hence winning) for France; this is not always the case for one of the other countries. Of course France ...

I've learned to EIA played at two levels: one has to play against the board and the second is to play against the players. The interaction between the two dynamics is what makes the game great but also easy for a newby to miscalculate.