[chrispedersen]

rlyeh would truly be hosed:

Sea provinces are low resources, and do not benefit from adjacent land provinces. so rlyehs income is forever minimal.

The capital resource bonus is frankly irrelevent to me, although I know that some others like meteorite guards.

land province mages are limited to starchildren. Great assassins. Lousy researchers.

The usurpers suffer from a lot of other weaknesses as well. Their signature strength (astral) is widely found on independents.

Lizard shamans, Amazons, all of the metalic orders.

finally, CBM of course removes clams; sure every nation is hosed that way - but rlyehs mages are more geared to clams than anyother nation in the game, probably.