EA Oceania - Knight of the deep too good?

[atul]

I think the placement of the sea nations by DrP was quite deliberate - 2 duels in the early game, and sea winners duel at the mid game. In hindsight I should've just run over EA R'lyeh instead of wasting few turns trying to see whether there was any good opportunities to surface. Oh well, next time I know.

EA Oceania is really strong early on, but on sufficiently large maps/seas it starts to show they're the only underwater nation without Astral.