not mercenaries, but colonists and traders...? (oh wait... you are the European researcher)
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but perhaps, they are did involved in mercenary activity, and then could be called mercenaries for that reason (because local kings sometimes giving them luxurious gifts and golds and slave girls to made the spaniards with them)
--------------- take this as example (soory Jirisys
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Imagine Jirisys (as a Spanish colonists), sent from his poor family in Spain because they can't keep in feeding him, he was young and not yet married, and he didn't have any real job in Spain, so he apply for become lowly ship crews and try his luck on Spanish armada's trip to far eastern spice islands, later known as Indonesia. For a year, he endure harsh working conditions, low quality foods, and rough sea. After land in the Spanish colony in Moluccas, his supervisor gave him helmet, armour, longsword, and a buckler, and forced him to fight because the local was hostile at Spanish forces (the Spanish did trade armour and weapons for spices, but when they had problems, they did mentioned to arm even their lowest ship-crews to fight because they carry many spare armours and weaponaries - so Jirisys was basically Spanish horde swordsmen). After that, he was braced his very first battle, he stand in the front ranks, just at the side of the Pike formations, defending himself in formations of swordsmen, repelling wave after wave of native levies... and he coming out alive in winning Spanish army because he worn armour, and his enemies are mostly unarmoured, unwilling, and unskilled peasants armed with mere bamboo spears... common to be found in eastern islands (western indonesian army depicted in the Portuguese invasion mod was much better trained, willing, and equipped than eastern Indonesian army! don't even compare moluccas peasant units with Javanese-Sundanese peasants, the Javanese and Sundanese had some martial tradition living even in the peasant society, while the moluccas was completely bland peasants).
Ok, with that experience of battle, and some other battle against some peasant human waves again... Jirisys become battle harded veterans, because he could simply pwn bamboo spear equipped peasants with his swords easily, and he allready kill some. He was promoted to regular soldiery in Spanish army, and tasked to guard a missionary expedition to Java. As you can expect, guarding missionaries and priests, he was forced to live in strict rules, discipline, and most importantly, the boring religious sermons and ceremonies (for him). For some time, he must endure all of it, and one day, the missionaries and priests said the Soldiers could go back to Moluccas because they want to settle down in the village, and convert the locals to Christianity... Jirisys and his friend in that band of soldiers, actually was expected to simply go back and resume their activity in the Army. But a Blambangan (majapahit) noble comes, and ask them to help them in fight against Demak army. At first, they may refuse, but after that, the Blambangan nobles start to open the chest he carries, and show them a big sum of gold coins. He then lead them to his camps, give them tuak (sugarcane-wine), silk clothes, and most importantly, slave girls for each to bang. Of course, befitted of the name of hedonistic pleasures, Jirisys choose to stay in the camp (to drunk and bang the slave girls). A week later, a messager comes and told them to prepare for a coming battle. Jirisys worn his armour (that was cleaned and polished by his slaves), and found himself placed in the central front ranks of battleline. His captain (in his band) order them to charge right into the Demak line, and found themself able to outmatch the Prajurit Pamedhang of Javanese army, because they had better armour. He won and got more gold coins, as well as more slave girls to statisfy his needs... After all of that...
Could you told that wasn't a mercenary activity?
(note : this story of Jiri is fictional, but I done this based on historical texts, how the Spanish army works for Indonesian nobles was treated)
Re: Nusantara Total War : Portugese Invasion
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.... I still looking for some artillery pieces from certain mods and waiting for permissions... after got that, we'll move on and got some balancing jobs...
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