With an unfinished game (due to starting too late) up to 1840AD, I will anyway post (probably tonight) an short report just to compare and discuss the opening moves since I might have done some highly unconventionnal move by settling (on purpose) on the Gold...
Barbarians had been at most just a small nuissance, mainly when they appeared with a new stronger unit for the first time (axe, then mace, then grenadier) but were under controle.
Stopped in 1840AD, when starting to be able to trade techs again with Spain. Gandhi being probably already in futur tech with all the wonders.
More to come later.
Jabah
edit - Reading Sirian's shadow, I realized that founding on the Gold was also the 'easy save' choice... scratch the unconventionnal in the first part
Barbarians had been at most just a small nuissance, mainly when they appeared with a new stronger unit for the first time (axe, then mace, then grenadier) but were under controle.
Stopped in 1840AD, when starting to be able to trade techs again with Spain. Gandhi being probably already in futur tech with all the wonders.
More to come later.
Jabah
edit - Reading Sirian's shadow, I realized that founding on the Gold was also the 'easy save' choice... scratch the unconventionnal in the first part