Strategy for tundra starts and other questions

[Unresolved]

Just played a SV Immortal game with the 2 worker B/O and I got my fastest SV yet at turn 266. A large part of that was probably due to my great starting location, but the extra worker early on helped my cities grow. And I somehow managed to completely dominate the religion aspect of the game by having over 30 cities follow my religion while having Ceremonial Burial as my belief. At the end of the game, I had over 1400 BPT at the end of the game since I took the first policy in Order instead of going down Freedom.

 

[pspboy7]

I tend to not reroll maps a lot, and I do often get a lot of tundra and/or even ice maps more than I care too. However, people are right, religion does make these so called "bad" starts a bit more easier to swallow.