That kinda requires hindsight.
Is there any way to beat this opening, without moving Trieste to Venice? Or can it be demonstrated, that opening to Venice does not lose out to the other French openings?

Personally I have done well moving trieste to venice against any opening. But yes it is particularly effective against the Piedmont opening.

in F vs A and i was France, i DON'T ever go to Albania... Italy and Germany is the two countries that is fought over... it's the main piece to winning...

However there's one way for France to get out of this mess... First, the fleet have to go to atlantic... then when the Austrians move to Venice, France can go for tuscony and later Rome and Tunis, then last but not least, naples

Yes, yes, but I tried it out in a sand box; Austria won by taking StP/Swe while France was busy defending Venice.

hmm intresting

The problem really is that Austria can mobilise far quicker than France can to the Italian peninsula, and following A Tri - Ven, F Ven - Apu in 1902, France has the guess of A Rom - Nap or hold. A correct guess will only make it even, while a wrong guess loses in Italy. Meanwhile, the mere need to send more fleets to the South to try to hold part of Italy, coupled with the initial build handicap from Pie - Tus, means Austria can frequently overrun Scandinavia. From my experience Germany is usually recouped but Austria wins from rushing to 18.

I will however test a theory: I will try to use A Rom as a decoy. See what happens.

yea...

Even if F Tri -> Ven beats the Piedmont opening... seems like it would take some stones to dial that up. You're really losing momentum if France plays a non-Piedmont opening.

hmm

Rome as a decoy does not work. The winning line for Austria is to rush Kiel, and then saturate Scandinavia with as many armies as possible.

I will need to test F Tri - Ven against the Northern and Southern openings.

Disregard Italians, acquire Swedish?

Yes. Italy is eventually regained because if France devotes mountains of resources to keep those 3 centres, he will get overrun in Germany and that is also a losing proposition.

I assume that my long-time FvA tester, Mr. Eden, will be very happy to do that testing?

I am. When shall we get started?

Well what about after the Vdip cup?

I feel like this research could be helpful for the playoffs. Maybe we could even hoard it and keep it secret and use it as our secret key to domination.

...or we could just wait.

Oh well, I am in the roundrobin for the playoffs and you see, I'm supposed to do 4 games this week.
Maybe after the roundrobin?

Sounds good.