EA Oceania - Knight of the deep too good?

[Loren]

Just tried a game against the AI with EA Oceania--those knights are wonderful. Getting onto the land has proven quite problematic, though. I have almost all the water (there are a few provinces owned by someone I don't really want to go to war with right now), Atlantis is gone, and R'lyeh who amazingly owned only odd land provinces just died of dominion death.

Despite Wrath of God & Lure of the Deep the breakout proved very difficult--multiple beachheads were smashed. I finally managed to distract the AI from the real province by sending out the initial troops in both directions as bait. I had empowered & itemed my pretender to be able to cast lichcraft and I got a Tartanian factory up before the AI came after the real target. Almost all the really good summons are units that can't live underwater. (Yeah, I could have cast Thestis' Blessing but that would probably get me invaded.)