Quote Originally Posted by Oleander Ardens
Buy them: my Armygroup "Asia Minor" only consists of mercs (Creshian Archers , Slingers from Rhodos, Heavy Peletasts, Barb. Cavalry, Thracian Merc) and some Phalangites, Milita Cav and Scythed Chariots. I play as the Seleucids vh/vh and have the money to buy and rule the world - a small change from the Numidian game

Silver Creshians and Rhod. Slingers are nice indeed...

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Based on this advice I've started filling out my rapid response cavalry unit with mounted mercs of any stripe. I really like that I can take them to the armourer and get them retrained. That was my chief complaint about mercs in MTW. I would have armies with all gold armor and the attached mercs were still wearing paper maiche.