- They're our allies, not our friends. - The Austrian Empire recollected. He made sure his son knew of that before making any further advances. His future empire should learn to avoid attachments, friendships will only pull the both down. A build up to an eventual relations. German Empire & Austria-Hungary - but I might plan to make it a little more A-H focused. . . . Won't lie... last I wrote about GE & A-H was in 2020... but here we are. As per most GE & A-H, this would not be historically accurate. The beginning is aimed to take place before they became "empires"... I suppose.