Inspired by this thread, I laid out plans for a Buccaneer scenario.

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The idea that I've had so far is that each city is it's own civ (possibly some city states, because I don't think it's worth forcing a DLL for some 1-tile islands...), and that to win you have to unite all the cities. Don't know how far it's worth going - would we have enough ideas to make a new tech tree?

I thought I might as well put this out there, before the Buccaneers lose any cities. If anyone has any ideas, we can talk about them for a bit, and maybe get something playable.

Map, with rivers and bodies of water in general added by me.

[Edit] After realising that setting it in the renaissance would turn the date back quite a way, this is the new map. Yes, you now will have to fight the Mayans and Brazilians too :p