mercs , do they require skinning

Greetings,
Im looking to add extra unit to my faction but am worried about messing with the battle_models file, as it looks a lil complicated, even after reading the tutorials.
I was wondering if I added merc units to my factions recruitment pool, would they require re skinning >??

Many thanks
Jason

No, but they all look the same as they'll use the textures in the "merc" entry of the modeldb file