Question on game balance in this setup

[JimMorrison]

You can't conquer anyone with only Illithids though. Most UW infantry that is worth using against a player is rather resource intensive, and thus incredibly hard to produce en mass. Then add in the fact that the water nations don't have much troop capacity on land (yay, indie invasion!), and you are seriously talking about not making a water nation playable in an MP setting.

I think the water nations already start with a rough paradox in real MP. Yes, they are terribly hard to invade from land, this is a great advantage, their share of the map is not cost effective to claim, so they are not likely to die before the end of the game. But the flip side of this is that it is so hard to make a *meaningful* ground campaign, that it is unlikely from turn 1 that the aquatic race will actually win the game.