[kasnavada]

My personnal opinion on CBM is that it's about as balanced as the base game is. It has the same basic flaws : lots of undocumented changes, and mostly undocumented reasons for changes. Which is the expected result of having no guidelines (unless I missed them ?) when making a modification. guidelines like "for balance issue, nations should be able to take X number of provinces by turn Y", "for balance issue, nations should be able to field thugs around turn Z". "Those nations got thugs earlier, but compensated by lack of A B and C".

It feels like CBM changes on a forum discussion with "let's try this" ideas instead of putting down guidelines and enforcing them.

Nevertheless, CBM are fun to play because it gives a new experience with the same game, however, as winning in this game relies on completely knowing how every single undocumented stuff works... well I like new stuff more than winning so it's ok I guess.