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We may call it anyhow but nation balance in CBM is, most probably, worse than in vanilla. Yes, you may be happy, that PoD costs 125 instead of 75 and that weakish nations for whom PoD was nearly the only viable choice can't take it anymore. You may be happy that there's no more fever fetish that was nearly the only hope for Machaka to do at least something. You may be happy that there's no clam of pearls for MA C'tis which has nearly no chance in CBM now unless it is really, really lucky. Yes, you may live and be happy but it is nations, not pretenders, or fetishes, or clams what people are supposed to play for and lead to victory, aren't they?
And, once again, CBM is a very good mod with a lot of work in it and many, many good and balance-wise changes, many new strategies and options etc. It is more interesting to play, without doubt but it is not balanced and actually is pretty far from that.