Gokudo01
Emperor
I find the lack of early production pretty crippling, with the only remedy i've found is water refinery and the might bonus giving +1 for every basic resource. Yeah by mid game it's not longer an issue, but having basically all of your starting water cities suck at production barring titanium is really difficult to handle.
Yes that's why there are only 2 sponsors which start on water.
NSA can move and defend themselves easier.
Chungsu need boats to find his foes faster : His agreements are op and he gets a lot of science from his traits