Create a game with bots. Finish it quickly. Repeat until your rating is high enough.

If I look at the small map, it's obvious that Austria borders with Milan and Venice.
If I look at the big map, and at the original variant map, it's not so obvious to me as it looks like Austria might only border with Milan, and not Venice.

What am I missing?

I'm already tied in 2 games, my maximum, otherwise I would have loved to join. Alas, maybe next time!

Yeah my bad, I didn't realize how old the thread was. At that point I couldn't delete my post anymore.

Apologies

I just joined, and for about 5 minutes I was puzzled I couldn't really join any standard game due to low reliability. Then I went to create a new game, and saw the possibility of playing against bots (which is super fun to learn to master the movement rules) and, 45 minutes later here I am, with a 1...