My Feedback on Mercenary Experience

[athuya]

To be hornest, I am not a fan of mercenary tactics. But in previous meta, in my Byzantine campaign, I have used alot of mercs to defeat Egypt.

In Previous patch, Egypt or any AI nations uses tons of mercs but I have defeated them by using mercs as well. I have suvived and win multiple huge wars in Egypt, italy and huge blob of HRE coaliations using tons of mercs against their merc sparming strategy.

While I use merc at first, my buget broke and I got alot of debt and some inflations as well.

But I can manage to correct it by my war loots, taking tons of money from winning war and later in the game I am wealthy enough to have some where like 40K mercs and 20K regulars so I can atleast lure and defeat the 100k strong AI army deep into my terratory to gain necessary war score to win.

For the latest 1.3.6 patch, It is like in the early patches like 1.1 or something.
There are very few available mercs for AI as well as for me.

AI is using theri levies which I can easily defeat by my 100K strong regulars.
but eventhough I am filthy rich, I dont have much available mercs to hire in the region as well.
My regular army has to die instead of mercs and my POPs reduced to replace it.
In the end my POPs dies even I don't use the Levies.

It is sensable the war kills people.
in previous meta I can use money to reduce my Pops dead but in this meta I have to use my pops anyway to win the war.

Thats my experience about the mercs
Thank you