I would be happy to play with pretty much whatever settings.

...Plus I am reliable!

I just don't want to hold the game up if it does take us a number of months to play through. But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it...

If there is no AI then difficulty level won't matter?

I think it'll run fine LC. Warlords will run as a separate application. I did have problems, but it was not really from installing BTS, it was from corrupted files, or something like that. I consequently just uninstalled Warlords altogether. The cool thing about having them both on there is that the map files should more or less work b/w the two apps, though there could be some problems with the mods.

If Sword doesn't speak up, I'm in. I'd love to pair up with ComedyDave.

Re game settings. I think climate should just be temperate, not random. I'm not sure we' want the map to be random, though I think random civs is good. Totally random map includes things like Ice Age, Oasis, Highlands, Inland Sea.

If we want some degree of randomnicity, I think Shuffle might be best option (random generates either Pangeaa, Archipelago, Continents, or Fractal).

I'll play with whatever, but my personal preference would be a Terra map. Hopefully this match will go on for years, and be fascinating for that whole time, and if there is a New World for us to compete in colonizing it will DEFINITELY make the late Rennaissance through Space Age far more interesting. Any map except Terra means that MOST of the land mass will be discovered if not settled by one of us before Mid Ages. This to me is not as fun for the later game. With a Terra map we all know there is another Hemisphere out there to be discovered, so being an 'explorative' civ is one strategic option.

Other ideas: Standard size is probably fine, but  I kind of don't like the idea of no AI. One interesting possibility would be to have it be large Terra, but put Barbs on Raging. A large map with only four humans, and raging barbs would keep us all busy fighting off barbs and give them plenty of room to develop Barb cities, while minimizing early human-vs-AI exploits.

Everything else default is fine IMO. If this is not really what you had in mind LC, no problem. Of course I'll back off and let you play your game the way you like

BTW, that Prince level Ethiopia BOTM at Civ Fanatics is a really fun map.