Pwned for being Diplomatic

So I have picked up a bit of the Diplomacy by email bug. I know, I'm about 5-6 years too late, but a bunch of friends and I have started playing regularly. We play gunboat.

This is my 2nd game. The first one I was Russia and Turkey and I made a good deal and we were dominating when the game broke up and this one started (too many people went AWOL).

In this game, I agreed to stay out of GAL and Austria would help me into RUM then in CON. This is a snapshot of Spring 1902.



Everything was going well. I continued to press for Norway and was planning on helping Germany into Norway for them giving me Sweden. Then this happened -



Yea...I got pwned by Germany/Austria. I couldn't recover.