As long as I get some decent resource count, and no tundra, I'm fine. You do not need a specific resource to do anything, just get better at playing. Deal with having the Huns as a neighbour, I have them as a neighbour on a 22 civ duel map, and they are a perfect little attack dog. Make friends early, build 4 cities, if a civ goes hostile, it will insult your empire for being puny, but that's just because they are being mean, no neutral/friendly civ will do that. Build Roads, make trade deals, have gold buildings. Trade routes will help, but these are helpful. I can get +100 gpt with only food trade routes in medieval, using this. AI cities will not 2 shot your units, unless they are industrial swordsman.. But if you have a composite getting attacked by 2 chariots and a city, over 2 turns, it will die.