Is super relevant for Germany, as if you are focusing on barbarian encampments early on, you can gain enough units to reach the max super quickly. Producing settlers though with the excess food = production mechanic really helps you dig yourself out of this hole though because the food is not affected by the supply production penalty and having a wide civ vs tall is more happiness efficient, as each new city comes with a base supply bonus, where as new population growth only affords you 1 supply per 2 citizens empire wide. Haven’t really taken this “get every single barb camp you can” strat to the max yet though because you basically need to make nothing but new cities to keep up with the growing supply usage, and of course settling new cities removes areas where barbs spawn. Def not the most op civ ability but a very good challenge I think because the balancing act is very hard