I'm in favor of a city site A. It increases the number of forests available and only sacrifices a single floodplain that wouldn't be worked for quite a while anyway.
Also, it looks like we may need a little bit of farming early to benefit from both gold mines. I don't normally condone it, but since we're lacking a large food resource, I'd say farm a floodplain or two. Maybe a research path that looks like Agriculture, Bronze, then Pottery (mostly for the granary). This would be followed up by either Animal Husbandry or Hunting and Archery. I'd lead with a worker first (to build a farm then start on the gold mines), followed by a couple warriors while growing the population, then (when available) a granary. If we could steal a second worker that'd be great. Otherwise, we should probably chop/pop rush one after the granary. Then, get started on expansion (military or non-military).
Short term goals are to get both gold mines up and running and have a large (~4) food surplus available for whipping. I envision something involving a farm and a couple cottages on the floodplains. You work those tiles (and maybe a grassland cottage) when growing your population quickly after whipping. Then, when you've capped out your population, switch over to the gold mines. You'd probably only be whipping 1 pop at a time in the early game, as you'd like to spend as much time as possible working the gold mines.
Also, it looks like we may need a little bit of farming early to benefit from both gold mines. I don't normally condone it, but since we're lacking a large food resource, I'd say farm a floodplain or two. Maybe a research path that looks like Agriculture, Bronze, then Pottery (mostly for the granary). This would be followed up by either Animal Husbandry or Hunting and Archery. I'd lead with a worker first (to build a farm then start on the gold mines), followed by a couple warriors while growing the population, then (when available) a granary. If we could steal a second worker that'd be great. Otherwise, we should probably chop/pop rush one after the granary. Then, get started on expansion (military or non-military).
Short term goals are to get both gold mines up and running and have a large (~4) food surplus available for whipping. I envision something involving a farm and a couple cottages on the floodplains. You work those tiles (and maybe a grassland cottage) when growing your population quickly after whipping. Then, when you've capped out your population, switch over to the gold mines. You'd probably only be whipping 1 pop at a time in the early game, as you'd like to spend as much time as possible working the gold mines.