agreed with AK. you could have stabbed France for your last 3.

Bel, Lvp and Bre are all you needed. specially since it was a Gunboat, highly unlikely that Italy/France would have been able to come together in time to save the game from a solo for you.

Babak, either you're looking at the wrong game, or think Rubetok is a different person. He was Italy

Well, first of all you played a good game. It´s not easy to win a gunboat with Italy, even with a CD Turkey.
Second, I think you key mistake was a move to West Med on 1904. What you expect to get with that? France have to give up the attack on England to defend from you, and this give Germany a chance to grow a lot. To win as Italy you just need a line from Tun to Stp including War, so I think you should have focused on securing the East and wait for the moment France and Germany start to fight to make your move to the win. But in the end it could have ended in a draw anyway.
And I am probably not the best one to teach how you draw less games :-)

Agent K said it already -- you COULD have won. You had everything east of Venice you needed locked up already. The weakness in their line in the south was the lack of an army in Gascony; Spain would have fallen once you get into NAf and hit MAO and Marseilles while supporting yourself into Spain. From there Marseilles and the MAO would have gone, and then Portugal is yours for 18.

Try to think of it from your enemies' perspectives: What is the easiest way to stop a player from winning? Developing a stalemate line is often the best way to defend against a growing power.

The more games you play, the more you see potential stalemates. If you see a stalemate line running from Spain through Moscow being formed, try as hard as you can to get a unit in there before the stalemate line is completed. In this case, the main thing I see is that you had a chance to get Spain in the Spring of 1908, which would have wrecked any hopes France had of reaching a stalemate line soon enough, that you neglected to act upon. Had you done that, you probably would have won.

@ killer - yup. I'm an idiot. sorry - ignore my last post. good responses from the others - so i'll just go away now ;)

you went wrong by drawing italy lolololololol




but seriously you should probably not have made enemies of both france and germany. they should have been easier to set against each other. if you tried your best, then you did nothing wrong however.

I think you did good till the spring of 07, there you should have gone for the MAO to block France's fleet that you knew was coming instead of going for an unlikely Spain. After that you just needed to push a little harder. In the future don't be so willing to give up, go for the win even if it will take a little time. There was not much Germany could do against you in the north.

Honestly I don't think you did anything wrong, because I don't think you could have won. Germany had a solid line against you in Russia and you didn't have any clear-cut way to advacne out of the Med. Barring Germany stabbing France I think it was a draw.

Thank you all of you for your replies.
@Agent K, President Eden, Thucydides: I know I could have won, but France had started to swing his units to south, and Germany could stab him in the north and won before me, as Babak said. Well, maybe I had to try, instead of an previsible draw.
@rdrivera2005: Thanks for replying, your advices are ever valuable! I agree with you. That move to West Med was dumb and indeed it made France come back to me. "To win as Italy you just need a line from Tun to Stp including War", then you think I should keep trying to get the rest of Russia?
@askninjasks: wow.. it's true. Actually, I had tried to get Spain, but with the wrong unit. I have to improve to brake these stalemates before they're formed. Thank you.
@jmo1121109: Well, Germany could stab France as well... but next time I will keep trying a little more.
@LJ TYLER DURDEN : THANKS! You made me feel better.

I would not have drawn in that position. You still had a chance to make progress against France.