Difficult deity start (Toku/Fractal)

[Simple Machine]

I am curious to see how experienced Deity players would approach this start. We are Tokugawa of Japan, and our initial position is:

Really curious if anybody can figure out what the best opening is here without any prior map knowledge! I think you might realize it is quite tricky within the first 40-50 turns or so.

Even with some advance map knowledge, I still can't figure out what the best way to open is. Main questions are:

Spoiler Things you'll have to figure out early :

What things to tech first
How to deal with barbs
How/where to expand
Whether or not to rush Louis

Spoiler Isolated? :

Not isolated.

Starting as Toku with an AH resource is already not ideal, but here's what makes this start even harder...

Spoiler Why a tough start? :

You start close to Louis XIV, who is very likely to settle in your face by T35 and also is likely to build TGW.
There is a fairly large region of territory to the S and SE that will spawn lots of barbs.

Anyway... I've always been settling on the PH

 

[Fippy]

Why PH with the standard warrior move (w or nw)?
Creates those early tech problems imo.

 

[Simple Machine]

Why PH with the standard warrior move (w or nw)?
Creates those early tech problems imo.

Where to settle would be better, you mean just SIP?

 

[Fippy]

Nope

Spoiler :

I warrior moved nw and saw corn & oasis. Corn i would def. want with a no AH first possible leader, oasis would be very nice too.

With BAT used we can prolly spoiler freely anyways..won't be much feedback coming (when i look in the past).

 

[Simple Machine]

Nope

Spoiler :

I warrior moved nw and saw corn & oasis. Corn i would def. want with a no AH first possible leader, oasis would be very nice too.

With BAT used we can prolly spoiler freely anyways..won't be much feedback coming (when i look in the past).

Oh I see, I didn't think of that

 

[sampsa]

Oh I see, I didn't think of that

Yeh, I might play the start if you give a worldbuilder-file.