Sharples
Prince
Considering how bad Tundra is. I've had Russia starts where there is Tundra around you and you HAVE to rely on forested food tiles to get anywhere with a good population. Same with Sweden they biases are very unfair especially in the Mulitplayer where people get Plain and Grassland starts. Your capital is going to lack behind in a Tundra start.
Even Raw desert is better than Tundra tiles because you can build farms on it. You need either a lake tile or a river tile to make a farm on Tundra which is my games aren't usually common. (Not sure if this is the same for others). There are no Tundra wonders. Tundra faith pantheon is very hard to work without Rivered/Lake Tundra. Fertilization is useless because you can't make farms on them. There is no production, no gold. Just raw food tiles that only come useful during Civil service which will give three food (and again it has to be rivered or laked).
Plus, in my experience barbarians seem to spawn up in the snow where Civilizations do not spawn as often and they don't explore these areas, meaning they're not going to help against them, so while you're exploring you're probably getting pillaged.
Even Raw desert is better than Tundra tiles because you can build farms on it. You need either a lake tile or a river tile to make a farm on Tundra which is my games aren't usually common. (Not sure if this is the same for others). There are no Tundra wonders. Tundra faith pantheon is very hard to work without Rivered/Lake Tundra. Fertilization is useless because you can't make farms on them. There is no production, no gold. Just raw food tiles that only come useful during Civil service which will give three food (and again it has to be rivered or laked).
Plus, in my experience barbarians seem to spawn up in the snow where Civilizations do not spawn as often and they don't explore these areas, meaning they're not going to help against them, so while you're exploring you're probably getting pillaged.