Where are all the mercenaries?

[boratlike1]

Im playing stainless steel with bgr V and a few other options and ive yet to see a single chance to recruit mercenaries. In the whole of britain and irrland i have never had the recruit merc button come up, even when i went on crusade there were no mercs so could someone tell me if they were remOved or something or where abouts i can recruit them?

[Kaidonni]

This would be better posted in the dedicated BGR thread in the submod forum. Also, have you read the manual for BGR V?

EDIT: Hmmm, the manual doesn't make much reference to recruitment of mercenaries except for costs.