[Torgon]

I agree. Mages now vs. mages later are much better. However, what you're saying is that you have to give up mage recruitment in order to recruit a few foresters. I'm saying that isn't the case. One, you don't have to give up mage recruitment and two you end up with more mages very quickly.

First, you probably don't have to give up mage recruitment, one of several things could occur:

1. You have a fortress up but have not had a chance to build a lab yet.

2. You have some gold left over and can't afford to recruit another mage.

3. You have a fortress up that you don't intend to put a lab in at least for a few turns.

Two, you end up with more mages, faster. Just 4 turns of overtaxing at 120 can net you +300 gold. Which = 2 additional mothers of Avalon. So even if you had to give up one turn of mage recruitment to get the forester, you end up being able to afford 2 additional mages within 4 turns.