I'm afraid you're mistaken. The AI cannot do it, well known fact.Originally Posted by Slyspy
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I'm afraid you're mistaken. The AI cannot do it, well known fact.
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Maybe I was playing a mod then? I can't remember.
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hmmm... cant happen in mods either - unless its in the medmod - but these are not true mercenaries - they are recruitable mercenaries that is normal units that require the inn to be recruited and not bought at the mercenary pool.
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Merc units got thier money bag symbol, even when controlled by the AI. Only seen that when a few of my mercs deserted to a crusade. Either you mix the games up (the AI uses mercs quite a bit in MTWII) or it's one mod with "false" mercs.
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Just a thought on the AI recruiting mercs thing (and I have never seen this happen so I do not know if it is possible), but what if an AI faction successfully bribed a general and the general's stack included a number of merc units?
Do these units remain mercenaries (I cannot see how/why this would change)?
Does the AI then have to pay their upkeep (I can not see why it would not unless they cease to be mercs - the AI would not "decommission" them)?
Apologies for continuing our little "off topic detour" mods, but I thought this issue worthy of further discussion. Perhaps it might be possible to split off the Mercs & AI discussion to a new thread?
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Very easy to test this. I don't use mercs in my games and haven't done so since I first started playing, but it would be easy to find out. Simply start the game in debug mode. Hire some mercs, switch factions and then try to bribe those, now AI controlled, mercs.
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Slyspy,
could it be that the mercinaries you refer to are units that were historically mercinary (Alan Mercinary Cavalry, Varangian Guard, etc.)? These units can be "built" just like other units. Not all units that should logically be mercinaries are treated as mercinaries by the game engine.
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