i wonder ?

[The Blind Samurai]

are there going to mercs you can recurit from region to region like in prevouis TW games cuz i have read all the articles and they have not mentioned mercs that you can recruit

[Sir Beane]

I think I read a recent review/preview that mentioned that while mercenaries are not recruitable the game does have region specific units. I'm not sure where I read this though, or how accurate the article was.

I'd prefer if mercs were in the game, so let's hope we see them.

[The Blind Samurai]

yes or i will do what many noble samurai have done before me harakiri tradition demands it although i may have trouble considering that iam blind




but i would love to go to scotland and recurit scotsmen as france or prussia

[crazyviking03]

If there are mercs in the game, they wouldn't be represented the same way they have been in previous games. Im embarassed, since I have a history degree, but I have only read random instances of mercs in the 18th century, and even then they are more like borrowed muscle from other national armies rather than hired soldiers; thus I have no clue if mercs played such a role as they did in earlier centuries.

[Belgolas]

mercs still play a role even today. although on a much smaller scale. I hope there are mercs but only in mods.

[CBR]

...but I have only read random instances of mercs in the 18th century, and even then they are more like borrowed muscle from other national armies rather than hired soldiers; thus I have no clue if mercs played such a role as they did in earlier centuries.

That is pretty much how it worked. So mercs should be hired by diplomacy and friendly factions delivering units instead of the old TW way. It did mean a substantial income for some of the German states doing it.


CBR

[peacemaker]

shoot. We were learning about the American revolutionary war during school last quarter...George washington was pretty much cornered so he decided to cross some river and attack some town fortified by elite (german?) mercenaries of some sort from the british. At least I think so....