If you do a video review please post it here
I tried Freecol long ago and didn't finish the game, but I think I just dropped it for no reason. I've always found annoying software that requires Java, although I guess it was a handy way to support any OS.
What I want is a clone of the classic that fixes those two only flaws, allows me to expand as in Civilization,, and confronts me with AI players that know how to expand in the same way.
EDIT It had been so long that I played Freecol, that I didn't remember I reviewed it for Reloaded
http://www.reloaded.org/download/FreeCol/368/