tilted axis

It doesn't look I'll be getting anywhere... for a very long time. Map is huge Tilted Axis, Immortal. I saved the advanced setup of leaders and victory conditions I picked. Tried restarting, but I just get the same thing. Is this even playable? I'd have to beeline science for embarking before I...

So I was trying to decide what game should I try post September patch and thought I'd check out what the new map types looked like before making a decision. Then I thought it would be nice if something like this already existed as a reference and while I found some examples on the web, they...