Island nations are good picks while playing MoS indeed, specially because you have a long expansion range, making it easier for you to attack places like Germany from UK or China from Japan than the other way around.
It will also be harder to play with it in poorer areas, since you have two options:
Using infantries to expand, which will lead to a slower expansion compared to your enemies on early game, something that's essential;
Using marines (and submarines), which will lead to a good expansion, but will eventually make you run out of money very fast, limiting your expansion mid-game.
Of course this doesn't apply if you're playing 25k or 50k game.
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