"Best" is certainly ambiguous, and this being a sandbox game, your personal opinion of what is best for your cities should prevail over a prescribed method of gameplay.  With that said, I would just like to reiterate that this thread is merely meant to serve as a reference of what to consider looking for.

so ...

There could be different categories such as:

Best production town

Best military town

Best Cav town

Best magic town

Best race specific town 

etc. 

and etc.

Consideration should be given to potential, not present circumstances.  (i.e. unclaimed sov bonuses apply, current city pop does not.)

If you nominate a town, state which category, give a coordinate Hyperlink, and a short explanation of why the town is ideal for you.

Quote the coordinate with a +1 to vote

In 1 month's time I will tally the votes and edit this post and list the winners.

Cheers

Luna

No, but we all get a list of cities worth siegeing :o)

lol

Quit trollin' you! Shoo! :P

Luna

somebody's in truBUHL ...

/me waits for Stormcrow to feel the sting of the mighty ban-hammer.

131/529

It has no growth potential, it's impossible to defend from my other towns, yeah, yeah, whatever.

But consider:

* At the centre of the biggest swamp in Elgea, the stench that blows in from the marsh is a delight to the discerning Orc nose.

* Its' breweries produce the world famous Bog Beer, brewed nowhere else. It's beer, it stinks like the swamp, and it has extra crunchy bits. And chewy bits. And wriggling bits. The wriggling bits are especially good.

* It's just down the road from the multi-racial Fyrgis party town of Lostwithiel, where the tourist can always find such delights as toad-poking contests and or scorpion-baiting matches.

* And best of all, no Elves. They get all nauseous in the swamp, you see.

I'm sorry to enter the contest so early with such an obviously superior town. I mean, you can enter you "carefully optimised 15k T2 Elf Cavalry City of of Doom" if you want but really, you're outclassed.

;-)

29/800

Icebitten Crags

* Defending against attacks and raids, the mountaintop location is perfect.

* Defending against sieges, every single surrounding square is a Plains, which makes it vulnerable to cavalry counterattacks (Kurdruk? have cavalry? surely not!)

* It's close to my (and my Alliance's) other cities if it requires rapid reinforcement or siege-breaking.

* Half the surrounding Plains are also a rare biome, so most peoples' armies will be vulnerable there to counters from an alliance ("The Lords of Frost", really, what Warfare Colleges do you think we tend to build?) accustomed to fighting in the Arctic.

* It has a couple of extra food squares nearby, so isn't too restricted on growth.

minus 314 by minus 820

While an army camped without your walls might be vulnerable to your howling hordes, an army that sought to camp without my walls would simply drown.

Your reinforcements might be close, but I hazard that my reinforcements from Sphettos North Point and Sphettos Agora would reach my Old Town more swiftly.

But I have most of my cities in mediocre locations, a few in strikingly mediocre locations.

Aurordan wrote: If we can siege it, it wasn't a very well placed city, was it?

For basic resource production.  It has not only 14 and 16 food squares nearby, but also clay, iron, and wood (the three more crucial building materials, in my opinion).  

So vote for this fine example of a city...