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Local troops as mercenaries

Overview
This mod adds a total of 24 of the core units of each faction as mercenaries to the campaign map. With this mod, you can recruit hastati mercenaries from italy, pikemen from macedon, head hurlers from britain, and many more.

This mod only affects campaigns started after the mod is installed. However, installing it does not break savegames.

This mod adds no new units. The "new" mercenaries are all units which are already available to recruitment to certain factions.

Recruitment cost for mercenaries is usually double the recruitment cost of the same unit when recruited the normal way from a city.

This is my first mod, and there might still be some issues, so any feedback is appreciated :)

Available mercenaries
The available mercenaries are, in order of replenishment speed (how fast a new mercenary unit becomes available for hire):

Common (replenishes about as fast as barbarian mercenaries):
- Falxmen
- Desert infantry

Medium (replenishes about as fast as libyan cavalry):
- hastati

Rare (replenishes about as fast as cretan archers):
- Naked fanatics
- Light chariots
- Head hurlers
- Forester warband
- Chosen swordsmen
- Iberian infantry
- Principes
- Levy pikes
- persian cavalry
- poeni infantry
- numidian camel riders
- night raiders

Very rare (no comparable unit in stock game):
- Spartan hoplites
- Scythian noble women
- Phalanx pikes

Unique (replenishes about as fast as mercenary war elephants):
- Spartan hoplites
- Praetorian cohort
- Berserkers