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Mercenary Army Expanded
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Mercenary Army Expanded

Description
For BNW
This mod expands the roster of units that can be purchased when you adopt the Mercenary Army policy in the Commerce tree in order to make it relevant past the Medieval Era. The units now available through this policy are:

Landsknecht: Raiding Unit - same stats as in the regular game (available at Civil Servants)
Swiss Guard: Defensive Unit - strength 24, has a bonus to combat when in friendly territory and a massive defensive bonus when next to your capital (available at Metallurgy)
Foreign Legion: Offensive Unit - same stats as in the regular game (available at Replaceable Parts)

The upgrade path for these units is as follows:
Landsknecht -> Swiss Guard -> Foreign Legion -> Infantry
Note: When you upgrade to the Infantry unit, your unit gains the negative promotion "Foreign Fighters" which causes your unit to ignore the positive bonuses received from Great Generals and to gain XP at half the normal rate.

The Volunteer Army policy remains unchanged.

Installation: subscribe to mod, Steam should do the rest.
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Languages: English only

Compatibility: This mod changes data related to the Mercenary Army policy, Landsknecht unit, and Foreign Legion unit. It should be compatible with any mod that does not change these.

Credits:
Swiss Guard unit icon and reskin by Wodhann
Swiss Guard unit model is the Napoleonic French infantry model by bernie14
119 Comments
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Nepix214 May 25, 2022 @ 12:32pm 
completely ruins the strat of taking poland into the information era then buying landschnekts upgrading them all the way to heli gunship and then enjoying your absolutely perfect raiding/harassment unit.
arr0w Feb 21, 2018 @ 11:12pm 
way too cheap units, AI doesnt understand to buy theam and you get advantage too fast
Stephen  [author] Dec 10, 2017 @ 2:41pm 
@SovietFatCat
Glad you like the mod. Unfortunately, unit modeling is not in my skillset (thus, I only use units others have made), so I will not be able to rescale the models.
SovietFatCat Dec 9, 2017 @ 11:51pm 
Love the mod. It seems that the Swiss Guard are a tad bit tall. Was wondering if you could take the time to rescale them so they don't look a little off?
Stephen  [author] Feb 19, 2017 @ 10:49am 
@Rookie, @Duce
I considered but rejected that idea, as mercenaries in the modern world take a back seat to national troops so I didn't think it was necessary to have a modern unique military mercenary unit.

@Flying Faggot
All I can say is try reinstalling the mod, as I don't know why a texture would be missing. I have limited troubleshooting capabilities, and if I can't replicate an error someone else is having on my own machine than I am unable to fix it.
moonjuice Feb 17, 2017 @ 9:54am 
Have you considered adding a unit for later eras? A private security contractor or something (something with a better name, but that kind of soldier)
Ｍ． Ｍ． Ｒａｎｄｙ Jan 23, 2017 @ 9:37am 
The Swiss Guard texture was missing for me. :(
Jarms Oct 6, 2016 @ 3:00am 
@Rookie

I quite like the fact that it ends at infantry with the "Foreign Fighters" promotion, it represents PMC's quite well.
Rookie314159265 Sep 21, 2016 @ 6:29pm 
you need to make a P.M.C. unit for modern onward
Stephen  [author] Apr 10, 2016 @ 11:22am 
@JDog360
Glad you like it. I was fortunate to find someone to reskin the model and do an icon for me, as my strengths are more on the coding side of things and not the art side, but art really does make a mod more polished.