[Spoilers] Fintourist and Old Harry have nothing to see here

[Fintourist]

I think I remember reading somewhere that the barbs get all techs that all players minus one have researched. So if you believe everyone except maybe one person has researched BW, you should prepare for axes.

IIRC barbs research techs and the speed goes something like this:

Research speed = 3 % * (players with tech) / (total no. of players)

Which would mean that if everybody would simultaneously get BW on T40, barb axes would start appearing ~T74. That said, I think there are already axes running around somewhere, but let's not worry too much. We can always 1-pop whip more bowmen if required. Even our island city will soon enough reach size 2 so that we would have 2 bowmen in place if an axe would suddenly appear.

EDIT: That formula totally comes from the back of my head, so don't take it as a credible reference..