your favourite mercenaries

[seleucid empire]

at some point in everybody campaign everyone has had to supplement their depleted armies with mercenaries. My favourite would have to be the illyrian cavalry in the west and the hykranian axemen ( in the far east) what are your favourite mercenaries. and dont post cretan archers, galatian wildmen or georgian medium infantry cause we all know those ones are good

[Blxz]

Archer spearmen in the east. i forget exactly what they are called. But nice, cheap and great for both garrison and general army bulking.

[KyodaiSteeleye]

thracian skirmishers - one of the best all rounders in the game. Also obvious, but medium hellenic phalanx - in a number of games i've relied on these guys to garrison my cities (and toast attackers) and bolster my line in areas away from my main recruitment regions.

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

Kretan Archers and Misthophoroi Phalangitai are essential additions for Koinon Hellenon armies in the early part of the campaign. They put standard early KH Toxotai and Classical Hoplites to shame, being both better and larger units (though far more expensive, of course.) And, since I play on Huge unit size, buying mercenaries has the considerable advantage of not reducing my town population.

The first thing I buy in any new KH campaign is a unit of Mercenary Kretan archers. With them, I can take on larger Macedonian armies with confidence.

[Tanit]

Balearic Slingers and Thracian Prodromoi

[d'Arthez]

The mercenary variants of Leuce Epos (probably one of the best cavalry units in the West) and the mercenary variant of the Gaestatae - but the latter not to be used as a front line unit, but as a support unit. Fear penalties can really help - you just have to make certain they do not draw missile fire.

[athanaric]

at some point in everybody campaign everyone has had to supplement their depleted armies with mercenaries. My favourite would have to be the illyrian cavalry in the west and the hykranian axemen ( in the far east) what are your favourite mercenaries. and dont post cretan archers, galatian wildmen or georgian medium infantry cause we all know those ones are good

AFAIK Illyrian cavalry are more popular than Georgian swordsmen. So yeah.

My favourites are Worgozez and some mercenary types that are also retrainable due to the fact that they're regular units, such as Alan Nobles, Skythian Riders, Bastarnae falxmen (really useful for Greek factions), Hyrkanian Hillmen, Heavy Persian archers, Batacorii, Appea Gaedotos, Tekastos, Illyrian cavalry, and Ethiopian swordsmen. Possibly a few more whom I forgot. Also Thrakian skirmishers and lancers with some factions (primarily KH).