Name your favorite mercenaries, pls

[paradamed]

Mine are Golgfag's ogres. They are the real deal. I also like the Braganzas besiegers and the galloper guns from Bronzino very much. They are great in combat.

[Maha Moggalana]

Voland's Venator .
I'm a cavalry man

[Vice]

My favorite Ranged Unit as a merc would be Braganzas besiegers....Excellent armor and even decent attack...can hold off most foes in melee if they need too...

My favorite Cavalry would be...Ragnar's Wolves...Their charge is sooooo good! And they have a decent attack as well. Their defense is only average but that is but a moot point with all their other good things they have going for them...

My favorite Infantry would be...Ricco's Republic Guard...They have good stats and they look quite nice as well hehe...

[majinleoking]

can you please tell me how to I recruit mercenaries? I get announcements about some lord hiring some badass named guys and I can now recruit mercenaries at mercenary camps, but I still don't know how. And another thing, what can I do with the diplomat? I cant start negotiations with anyone.

[Maha Moggalana]

can you please tell me how to I recruit mercenaries? I get announcements about some lord hiring some badass named guys and I can now recruit mercenaries at mercenary camps, but I still don't know how. And another thing, what can I do with the diplomat? I cant start negotiations with anyone.

Wait for my mercenaries and unique units guild , it's include the cost , requirement , how the antipathy between mercs captain work and many things else

[Marcus Tullius Cicero]

Leopold's Leopard Company, Grudgebringers (saves me having to build cannon foundries for a while), Marksmen of Miragliano. Venators and Galloping Guns can be super handy though

[Ulvar]

Morgan Bernhardt's Grudgebringers (because of my addiction to SotHR and Dark Omen), Richter Krueger's Cursed company (this is really unique looking unit) and Joseph Bugman's Rangers....hmm you know why To be honest I love most of them.

[SinerAthin]

Yeah, I'll agree. Richter Krueger's Cursed company is pretty darn cool. They look badass, have a badass commander with a badass backstory.

Altough, aside from that, I think I like the Rugluk's Armored Ork Crossbowmen(or whatever they're called). They're about the only decent ranged orks there are, and they've killed MANY dwarves for me xD

[Valiant Champion]

ricco's republican guard pikemen.

[wassabi]

grudgebringers because you dont get just one unit, you get cavalry, infantry, crossbows and cannons..you could field an entire grudgebringer army if you wanted to...venators come in a decent second cause they look damn cool

my question is though, what do you do with your mercenairy captain once you get him? do you put him to work in battle and risk him dying or do you keep him somewhere safe so you can keep producing his units? i always have them govern towns cause im greedy like that

[cenkiss]

I keep them in cities except richter.Because he always comes back even if he dies.

[Ichon]

Ragnar's Wolves probably my favorite mercenary but Ruglug and Ogres come as close 2nds. The speed and hitting power of Ragnar is exceptional and I find them more useful against even heavy Chaos armies than Empire knights. I use the mercenary leaders in battles, it seems part of the Warhammer world to at least put them at risk. Only a couple of them seem the type to hang back and not fight in the front lines. As a result I probably do lose 1/5th of them but thats ok as there are so many.

[Vardeus]

Ragnar's wolves are my fav now, i had the luck to get them in my latest ostermark campaign. I haven't had the chance to try the grudgebringers or Voland's guys, but the latter are similar to knight orders i guess. Pikemen are fairly useful, but when i get anyone instead of rico's i'm like "y u no rico, where is he??".

I usually keep merc captains as governors, unless bodyguards are a cavalry unit.

Ouch sorry for the necro post worthy of nagash's abilities...

[Ajax]

do they come back in the course of a campaign if hired by someone else and then killed?

[IrishBlood]

^ I dont think so, I think they just respawn for whatever faction owned them before.