Income and population mechanics

[Nightfall]

Originally Posted by Torgon

Obviously, it not as effective if you have to use 10 x 10 GP units plus a 40 GP commander to do it.

And this is why we are never going to agree, you believe that the opportunity cost of this unit, which can easily be raised in a captured province, is lower than the opportunity cost of a mage.

Every forester you hire is a mage you aren't hiring if you had played efficiently.

Originally Posted by Torgon

Its about gold now vs. gold later.

And I would say it's about mages now vs. mages later. The difference is that gold doesn't win games, mages and research do.

The value of taxing high early for the first couple of turns isn't that it gives you extra gold; It's that you can convert that gold quickly into an early second castle with lab, and recruit 2 mages a turn.