[Soyweiser]

Thanks Cor. I facepalmed when I saw Makinus's post. Paths don't matter. Research points do.

Esp RP/mage and RP/initial gold cost and RP/upkeep.

(Initial gold cost includes the fort+temple+lab costs of course) So a 120 gold mage with 7 rp that requires a temple to be build is worse than a 120 gold mage with 7 rp that doesn't require the temple.

*one minor point with recruit without a lab mages/researchers these do tend to take one additional turn to start up research. Does not mean much, but they are a little bit less good then they look on paper. (esp when they also have move 1, and might take 2 turns to start researching).