Underwater fortresses

[Squirrelloid]

Originally Posted by quantum_mechani

Correct (and it goes the other way as well).

Yeah, well, that's rarely that much of a disadvantage. Home territories for land powers tend to have at least 3-4 land provinces adjacent to them, often high resource woods or mountains.

Whereas virtually every map gives a water nation a good chance of starting with only 2 adjacent water provinces - in addition to crappy administration values they can't even harvest resources from many surrounding provinces, and water provinces are at best mediocre in resources.