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For me the Kapaku and Morgawr are by far the strongest factions. The Cult and Forgotten are the weakest. 

The remaining factions are all about the same with pluses and minuses.

My Tier list

Tier 1

Kapaku

Tier 2

Morgawr

Tier 3

Everyone else

Tier 4

Forgotten

Cult

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And yes, for me Kapaku are the best and Cultist weakest (both being my favorites factions).

I feel like the Allayi are weak. I never do good as them and AI Allayi always gets eliminated. The Forgotten AI is the same way. As for the Cult, they only seem weak cause they have only one city but if a player or AI Cultist converts dozens of villages and they start spawning tons of units they are a pain to fight. Both Morgawr and Kapaku are stupidly overpowered, at least in player hands. Morgawr AI isn't too hard, but the Kapaku AI is always at the top. Kapaku are are the Riftborn basically, in industry terms. Every other faction is in the middle.

One question I didn't see was "What faction is the best for new players?" In my opinion it's the Vaulters.

I dont know if I want I can turtle up with my cultist and never die.. but its impossible to win endgame purely because there are ~ 60 cities to wipe out.

While I can wipe city by city, after 5-7 cities I need to wait for 4turns to heal.

And AI can do nothing but take new cities while I heal or siege their cities.. 

I would say the game would be much different with no retreat/city razing feature. It would allow so many tactics like storming through enemy empire just to find the capital and waste it completely not just cultists but with any faction.

And the pesky settlers are running wild like headless chicken. Sure you attack once and then it retreats and builds itself into a town. :D You need a lot of movement points to clean up the garden.