I would disagree strat. I sent many long winded messages attempting to rationalize a stab. They might not have been as concrete as you were looking for, but they definitely were not along the lines of "stab because you should". Its hard to offer suggestions when the only real course of action you were considering was Med naval conquest. and as to the argument that i would have stuck with Austria even with a stab, all i have to say is that every good player knows that your greatest enemy can become your greatest friend and vice versa in a split second. Basically if someone was willing to stab in the Triple, I would not have hesitated to stab Austria as soon as it was profitable for me