Just keep out hunting dogs and its fine, Laming with ew is the biggest problem and to fix it, give a -1 los for dark age eagle and eagle wont be that superior over scout anymore.
Looking in hindsight,the idea of hunting dogs was to speed up game pace, but I don't think it really works as such since ur villager count at any minute of the game would be the same as without hunting dogs. Maybe a better idea would be to bring back the "e-sport" version where all civs start with +3 or +2 villagers. That would in true essence fast-forward the game enough to see early action.
What hunting dogs is doing imo, is just giving extra res (saving a bit of villager time) but that only affects the early game balance (like easier m@a rushing or drushing + 10:00 mins feudal or so).