Mercenaries

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Mercenaries are hireable units you can hire them at the Mercenary Post. Mercenaries are great units, but they are really expensive. The level of your mercenary post determines the speed of mercenaries you can hire in a village. The userlevel of the player determines the number of mercenaries you can hire. You can hire 250 mercenaries for each userlevel. The maximum level of a mercenary post is 20, and you are limited to one mercenary post in a village.

You can hire the following Mercenary units in the Mercenary Post:

• Bonnacht
• Hessian Maceman
• Landsknecht
• Yojimbo
• Syrian Crossbowman
• Buryat Longbowman
• Turcopole
• Bedouin Camel
• Druzhina Bodyguard
• Hussar

History

An early recorded use of foreign auxiliaries dates back to Ancient Egypt, the thirteenth century BC, when Pharaoh Ramesses II used 11,000 mercenaries during his battles. A long established foreign corps in the Egyptian forces were the Medjay - a generic term given to tribal scouts and light infantry recruited from Nubia serving from the late period of the Old Kingdom through that of the New Kingdom. Other warriors recruited from outside the borders of Egypt included Libyan, Syrian and Canaanite contingents under the New Kingdom and Sherdens from Sardinia who appear in their distinctive horned helmets on wall paintings as body guards for Ramesses II