This looks like a refreshingly straightforward Monarch-level game. A coastal start, wheat, gold in the hills, several bonus grasslands, and half price harbours is a nice bonus as well.
Funny though that the Man-O-War "may be difficult to use in a pre-planned manner." I've never really had much difficulty making use of it before, there tend to be ample targets to attack with it once I'm able to build them, and on an Archipelago map I'd expect that to be the case. It makes me wonder if perhaps there is a distinct lack of saltpeter nearby. Either that, or perhaps the "coast" nearby is actually a lake and we're unusually landlocked for an archipelago map?
I may just have to play some Civ on my old Windows 8.1 box and try this one out!
(Or is PTW playable on Win10? I have the discs, but assume the lack of SecuROM, which I've left enabled on 8.1, would be a problem?)