Not saying anything bad about the variations and development.
Just something about the first one connects with me. Sometimes some renders just hit me harder when they are bare and raw, other times not.
There is a lot to be said for the energy and power of a first draft of something that can get lost as its refined and "cleaned", so to speak. Not here maybe, just sometimes.
Perhaps that the POF is a look-out tower from a period in human history of intense and unending violence, just fits better in a desolate land scape?
Lets play word association.... You say Roman. The first words that come to my mind are death, blood, pain... See?
But someone else may say, development, architecture, renaissances. But if you say renaissances, then I again think of death, blood, pain, and also nude.
Anyway, the last image is very good too. I just liked the first one for some reason. I will make an appointment with a shrink when Obama care becomes aforadable