[Endoperez]

Except when fighting in cold (and Wolven Winter and/or Illwinter hurts even more than usual), and they don't have Jotunheim's solid province defense, and lizard Shamans (main researchers) won't transform into Nether Dart-casting terrors as with Utgård, and they don't have stealth capability, and they are weak in Astral and don't have easy access to any mass-movements spells except Stygian Paths (next to useless) except in Miasma theme, and...

But yes, it does have strengths. As does every other nation.