Western Mercs...

[PaulTa]

For those of you who have actually finished a long compaign in western Europe, what sort of mercenaries can I look forward to? I'm about to start a new campaign as either HRE or Spain, and if I can recruit units of mercenary musketeers I'll definitely go with HRE.

So what sort of mercs can one look forward to in Europe in the later stages of the game?

[pansoiatr]

In my byzantine campaign in which i took most of central and eastern europe i could only recruit the following units
1.crossbowmen
2.spearmen
3.frankish knights

[Roy1991]

These are the once I can remember:

- Crossbowmen
- Spearmen
- Frankish Knights
- Pavise Crossbowmen
- Ribaults
- Welsh Spearmen
- Irish Kerns
- Galloglaich
- Flemish Pikemen
- Swiss Pikemen
- Landsknecht Pikemen
- Condottieri
- Knights
- Welsh Longbowmen
- German Knights
- Free Company Longbowmen
- Free Company Men At Arms
- Arquebusiers

[katank]

Early on, you'd have to go with merc crossbows and merc spears. Both solid units and war winners for my blitzes.

[lars573]

These are the once I can remember:

- Crossbowmen
- Spearmen
- Frankish Knights
- Pavise Crossbowmen
- Ribaults
- Welsh Spearmen
- Irish Kerns
- Galloglaich
- Flemish Pikemen
- Swiss Pikemen
- Landsknecht Pikemen
- Condottieri
- Knights
- Welsh Longbowmen
- German Knights
- Free Company Longbowmen
- Free Company Men At Arms
- Arquebusiers
Also they don't pop-up until after a certain date and in some cases replace another. For example X-bows are replaced by pavaise X-bows after 1300. After 1400 they get replaced with arquebusiers. Also Flemish and Swiss pikes replace merc spears in a lot of places by 1350. Landsknecht come a long in 1478. Knights and German knights repalce Frankish knights after 1300. Welsh longbows start to appear in 1300 and welsh spears disappear after 1400.