Ok Venice is pretty Easy

Venice is really easy to mess up also. Venice was my first loss in BNW. puppet too early and run out of food means your science gets pummeled.
 
The Shoshone are pretty easy. Portugal is quite forgiving as well. I haven't tried Morocco yet, but I suspect they are easy.
 
I think Venice is the easiest of any Civ, ever. You really have to work at it to lose.
 
My first Emperor win was with Poland. Nothing elegant about their ability, but over the course of the game its worth an additional policy tree.
 
Venice is really easy to mess up also. Venice was my first loss in BNW. puppet too early and run out of food means your science gets pummeled.

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.

Finally gave up a little over 100 turns through.
 
I think Venice is the easiest of any Civ, ever. You really have to work at it to lose.

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.
 
I've been playing as Syria a lot. If you're a pure warmonger they're wonderful.
 
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.
 
You don't even have to try with the Shoshone.
 
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