Mercenaries and what you can do with them

[Sensei Warrior]

Update and Answers:

I am in the Early 1100s right now. Me and my Merc army have been steadily gaining ground in Europe while we addressed the French issue. The French are now a Footnote in the Annals of History, and I own all French lands except for Toulouse (the Italians took that), and Champagne (which went rebel and I decided to leave alone for a bit. The Spanish border me to the South who for the moment seem to be strong allies. HRE and the Italians border me to the East. I am allied to the Italians, but not allied to HRE (they decided to back the French).

On the finance front, its alot of easy come easy go, which seems to be the same with macsen. I'm not the richest but do have a large income. Course as soon as I get some money I lay it down on money improvements. I've been able to focus on building up Agriculture and started getting some trade. I have 1 ship producing provence, and am trying to get 2 more to start churning out ships.

Right now my focus is on the precious Crusading Goals. I'm going to be shoring up expenses during my next push, trim the fat from the budget, and press out the ships to get to those GA goals.

I am thinking of sneaking into macsen's game and ing his hookas and ing his hookers. The Mercs haven't been as free flowing as I would have liked. I've gotten enough to 'git r dun', but I certainly dont have as many as macsen seems to have.

I haven't really been paying attention to where the troops are coming from, but I definately got quite a few from Normandy during this push. They definately are more prevalent where my provences border another faction's provence. I'll keep track of it, and give a more definative answer next time.

The types of merc troops available for purchase has almost solely been Cav and Spear types. Virtually no melee troops have been available for purchase. So far I've been getting by with Druzina Cav. Gotta love those guys. I'm still thinking I might have to shore up my melee units with Highland Clansmen. I am still holding off of making them for the moment. I'm goin to give the game as long as I can to produce some melee troops before I resort to making them.

That's it for now. I keep you guys in the loop.