[Fal]

given the fact that good nations have no conflicts in interests AND allowed communicate each other - not to mention they are allied and locate close to each other, any single evil nation will be facing a joint army force from five different nations, and he will have to adopt several different battle strategies. IMO it's going to be an impossible task unless the evil nations somehow coordinate their actions. Hopefully the neutral players will be the buffer here, but the chances are, the neutral nations will be busy keeping themselves alive and try to get most out of both sides, if they are not eliminated early in the game that is. And this is not helped by the low indie strength (of 3), personally I think a slower early expansion might be better.

I wouldn't worry too much about R'yleh though. should be fine as long as he doesn't get 30 or so connected sea provinces.