Yes ... Big Islands Helps Human Player
Message:It keeps them off you for a while.
I think the map is bigger as well by default. Shrinking the map would reduce resources.
I just build a boat and ferry my chariots over. After first wave wrecks their peasants, I build an archery range on their island and disrupt them.
The AI gets off track and doesn't know how to recover.
I would be intrigued to see what two players on the same civ could do. With the abundance, one could build like crazy. Start the second wave into the enemy earlier.
Yours,
IronConrad
17-Feb-2021