[chrispedersen]

Well, if algae et. are ok with it, I'll captain the usurpers.

However, I would like to make (remake?) my two suggestions.
None of the suggestions for the usurpers have super effective troops like our worthy opponents.

I suggested mictlan as an addition because they are early game combat effective with the S/W bless. I'd ask my worthy opponents to seriously look at the usurpers available troops and see if they don't agree?

I mean Supplicants - if we start next to the Sanguinarium - don't you want us putting up a fight? Likewise, if we start next to the Children of the Corn, doesn't the Sanguinarium want us putting up some resistance.

I suggest that its in everyone's interest that troops be fairly balanced.

My second suggestion is that Sept replace border mountains with mountains. Many nations get bonuses in mountains - and while the original maps are balanced to include mountains, randomly generated maps never have mountains, only border mountains. Border mountains do not count for the purposes of these spells or national abilities.