[Twan]

Strangely happened in 3 of my tests in a row, my last game in v0.4 and two games started in v0.5 to test my pretender. But it's probably just bad luck for the AIs (not happened in the last three games I started today to see if it was a regular outcome).

About Oceania, hum I don't know.

I've done a test game with v0.3 or 0.4, just defending a little realm and sending scouts everywhere to watch 11 AIs fighting. Oceania wasn't there but Atlantis and Rl'yeh. When I was destroyed after 80 or so turn, two land AI were by far the first, each owning 2 or 3 capitols and one half of the plain. Atlantis took the isle just after another AI (Man iirc) destroyed Pharaex. Atlantis had the isle some turns, losing it several times against Man, Eriu or others and re-taking it. Then Rl'yh attacked took the isle and finally destroyed Atlantis. Rl'yeh kept the isle more than 10 turns after, even building a fort, but even with all the bonus its forces were by far too small once big land power emerged (Eriu and Ermor in this game). So my conclusion was sea nation aren't too powerful, even if their access to the isle is far easier than for a land nation.

But of course humans may use far better the riches and gems of the isle and central seas, so I can't say how sea nations will do in a real game, we'll see.