NUMBER 3. All good things are three, the City is Roosting Three or was it Tree, it is the third city to be built, number three for three, it is a fairly tale city as the epic number in fairy tales is number three. For conspiracy theorists, it is all related to the power of the pyramid or triangle, for the religious crowd, the Trinity. I mean, three got it all!!!!
No doubt in my mind, it got everything, defense bonus from Hill AND river, free aqueduct from the same river. It forms a consistent border line to the west with a non sprawled and firm external border on defensible terrain, and got both enough shields and irrigation potential to become a combined agro-industrial powerhouse as well as sealing the Western border completely. It also allow us to get more potential iron and coal tiles when these resources emerge, and finally, it allows us to cut Western forests for quick shields, include valuable horses and gold, as well as needed cattle to sustain fast early growth as well as securing the external Western mountain as a fortress site to observe the Indian/Dutch border with 200 % defence bonus.
From a defence viewpoint, Indian units will get minimum defense approaching the city from West, with grasslands to cross before they can attack the high rise city on the gilded hills.
It is a very very sexy and attractive city location that has it all, golden Jewelry (gold resource), tall (hills), good mammaries (Cow),long legs (horse) and is steaming wet (river), what more can a Fanatannian man ask for ???????
I just ask you....
Get real, nothing comes close to Site 3 in the long run, and since the city is to be named Roosting Tree, we should give the Domestic Consul the honor to have such a great future city that actually has some trees.