@krpeters
ok, so: i think you're saying: if adjacent province shared by 2 forts, the %age that fort#2 gets does not "come out of" the %age fort#1 gets? and i guess if you build fort#2 adjacent to fort#1, fort#2 gets 0 for fort#1, and fort#1 remains as it was?
@deadlyshoe
understood, i haven't reached "later", i either win or lose early. it was just that some post talked about doing loads of forging, but i think i get the picture; i shall forge less
@thejeff
i know you're right, but i just don't seem to need/build so many mages, what do you want me to do with them?

i can recruit what i need, mage-wise, back at my capital?