I tried Venice recently. Got spawned in the middle of a vast, empty area with no nearby city-states or other civs. Would have been great for expansion, but of course I was Venice so that was impossible, and everyone was so far away I couldn't even build a caravan for the longest time. By the time people started settling near me and I could begin doing things I was falling behind pretty badly.
The funny thing is I came really close to having to settle for a time victory as Venice in my first BNW game (which in my own personal book, a time victory is just another phrase for defeat) from gross mismanagement of specialists in Venice. (Forgetting to run Scientists combined with building Guilds too late.)
But you don't want to be on the real earth map nor on Pangaea playing Venice; you need to found Venice on the coast for cargo ships.
Venice is cake. It turns out that Brazil ended up being the pro civ in BNW.
Brazil can be ridiculously good, but making sure you don't get useless carnivals and having a crap starting position makes them the hardest civ to exploit correctly.
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