300 AD: Founding new cities

[TheViking]

We now have the opportunity to expand east and west. The included maps show IMO the best city sites but feel free to suggest other sites. In particular I think we should we should found C5 ASAP; it's on the same landmass as the Aztecs and probably Zulus and thus enables us to demand (and probably get) tribute from the Aztecs and Zulus before republic. The probability of getting tribute increases if we build a few military units before demanding tribute.

Of the sites in the west I think C3b and C3c are better than C3a. In theory C3a might be better but quick early growth is better and the forest makes that difficult (the city would either grow slowly or founding it would be delayed by the need to chop down some trees before founding a city).

The maps below show the sites in question:

 

[naervod]

Went for the C2 option, because I'm not a fan of having desert in the city radius. Wennt with recommended for Igloria settler.

 

[TimTheEnchanter]

c3b, c5. All whales all the time.

 

[Elsaak]

OK for the c5 site.

if we have 2 settlers, I hardly recommand to found on c3a, after begining to unforest (m or i ?).
if only 1 is ready to settl, then c3b, with(2 whales (the fish can be use by another city later)