Quote Originally Posted by antisocialmunky
Mercs are good arrow bait and you don't pay their upkeep in crusades I don't think.
IIRC from somewhere else...you only pay their hiring fee and then once they're in a Crusade you don't pay for them anymore. a lot of my Crusades are full of mercs, particularly when i need emergency reinforcements, although it does seem to make the Crusade less effective when auto-calcing.

another merc question...are the feared and downright nails Jomsvikings available only as mercs in the Viking period in VI?