I've got an idea for how we can solve the problem that Bretonnia can't recuit mercenaries.
They should be able to hire bretonnian peasants and knights in Bretonnia itself. (Local milita rallied to fight for king and country and knights looking for adventure and glory. Questing knights should be found almost everywhere in The Old World.)
Since both The Wood Elves and the Dwarfs are old friends of Bretonnia is there nothing that says that they could not be recuited by Bretonnia. (In Athel Loren for the Elves and in mountainious areas for the dwarves.)
(This could be explained with the elves and the dwarves sending troops to assist their bretonnian allies.)
I've read somewhere that sometimes are the bretonnian tournaments visited by imperial and high elf nobles, so i find it not to far fetched that some young and adventourus imperial, tielan, estalian and maybe even high elf knights join Bretonnias glorious army for a campaign or two. (This would enable bretonnia to hire foregin knights as well.)
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