Hum. Big game, tough research... could work.
And we're at 21 players! Woo. Welcome on board DC
I'll start looking at the game setup. If both water nations start in the western sea area of the Faerun, they shouldn't have too much room to grow unchallenged.
Barring objections/better ideas, we'll look at playing on Faerun 466.
Rabelais has suggested difficult/very difficult research - what do people think?