Fishing is a MUST have in the path to naval dominance. Animal Husbandry has absolutely nothing to do with Naval dominance. Surely in terms of PURE Naval dominance Fishing is more important than AH right?
I see you're really pushing this, but when you make points like this it's hard to believe you've thought it out. AH is key to production in terms of both health and in food to work tiles. I will again point out that we might have nowhere to send the boat until closer to 2000 BC or whenever capitols pop borders a 2nd time. That so many missed *that* is quite dubious, if we're to compete with the caliper of opposition that will be fielding these watermaces and astroprivateers, we have to recognize things like that, ASAP. I'm disappointed the poll went >10 votes deep without careful analysis of either the in-game position or the screen shots.
More on topic, naval dominance *is* key and we *do* have to pay attention to it. It isn't just berserkers: it's anybody with galleons. Beware of teams like mavericks who have PHI and enough deity caliper talent to field galleons in the 1 AD to 500 AD range with the advantages that confers. Such a team might not want to negotiate, it might prefer that 4-6 coastal cities burn before their hapless victim can react.
Any extra hammers that goes into military needs to go into naval sentry forces and counter-navy. MILITARY alliances are more important than ever...you can probably secure 1 or multiple borders/sailing paths that way. We don't want 0 land troops, but if it gets to the point where 5 galleons full of even plain maces or muskets threatens multiple cities of ours, even if we're at tech parity or even a lead, we're going to have our cities burn. I've lost this way. I've beaten Lord Parkin this way as part of a 3v3v3v3 (2 monarch AI teams). It isn't pretty. We need as much early tech and productive power as we can muster, and that is NOT attained by going fishing first.
As for UUs, viking and dutch are murder. Viking have a significant advantage amphibiously for a long time, and dutch can literally blockade somebody to hell off a speed astro effort with little hope of defense. A blockaded island loses all foreign trade, INCLUDING resources. The ideal scenario is for them to do this to the vikings...we can only hope. Once frigates and airships enter the picture it's less skewed, but they're going to have a window and they will probably abuse it like nothing seen in SP.
Viking UB is excellent for water maps, probably better than the dutch version. Dutch UB is good but overrated. Coast tiles are marginal, especially to hammer cities, and will tend to be worked last. That said, we shouldn't screw around...their UU is so strong that we need to either ally or cut them early if this turns out really watery. Losing mass resource trade deals,
to work boats, and probably smaller cities is not fun. It's an L.
Fishing is a MUST have in the path to naval dominance. Animal Husbandry has absolutely nothing to do with Naval dominance. Surely in terms of PURE Naval dominance Fishing is more important than AH right?
crying "Why didn't the mapmaker give us any Horses or Metal?" 
Wow we are getting way off topic for this thread... So I moved my response.
