This mod adds a promotion "created" to all units, and it's conflicting with other promotions (such as the Ayelids promotion (from the alpha centuri mod I believe) of healing every turn). Unsubscribing and relaunching another map does not solve the issue. The "created" promotion still remains and the promotions of other civs is still broken. Other than that works fine.

Any one has an updated version working good with Vox Populi ?

@SLGray

Given the circumstances regarding the fact that the old version of JFD's Rise to Power in CivFanatics that is already out of date, I'm afraid that the Mercenaries mod, along with Piety and Cities in Development, would not be compatible with the Steam version of RtP. I have already informed @Zwei888 that the Renaissance Era Revised mod will have no more support from Mercenaries since it is already out of date.

This is an amazing mod! So cool having Roman legions as Babylon haha
Was wondering does the Diplocorner UI work with this mod?

Thanks :)

Is this going to be added to the Rise to Power mod collection or can it already be used with it?

There seems to be a bug where I get free resources when disbanding units. It's quite frustrating because I removed some mercenaries by giving them away to city-states before breaking the contract, but now I'm in negative resources. I've defaulted to negative resources. I tried re-contracting them then disbanding them, and that puts me back to 0, but breaking the contract goes back to negatives. Then I tried contracting then breaking the contract, but that doesn't do anything either.

Hi !
My game is in french and when i play with this mod "horse back ridding" tech disapear of the tech tree. Any ideas ? Thank you.

Would this mod conflict with a mod that removes Mercenary Army from Commerce, such as Reform and Rule?

Some information that might be relevant: Landschneckts have been given to the Honor Finisher

Quite powerful, can get more extra-powerful advanced units for a higher cost. If you have a lot of gold, mercenaries are good for adding an extra kick to your military, though don't rely on them since they do cost more and can't upgrade or promote.

It will never happen, but I just want to put this idea somewhere.

I'd love to see Bushranger mercenaries. Give them Ned Kelly armour with Woodsman and Hillman perks and boom, you got an Australian mercenary unit.
They're famed for outrunning the law and surviving in the Rough Australian wilderness. Makes sense to give them movement bonuses to Rough terrain.

Someone could just make that as an addon, or hell, it would make a great Unique Unit for Barbarians even.

Spectacular Mod! I was wondering if I could contract you to create a personal mod for me. You can msg me or email me. carlosbot001@gmail.com

JFD, could you please update this? And please, please, please, don't actually move to the failed heresy that is Civ VI

Not since Febuary 2016

This mod hasn't been updated in a while has it

Does this mod work with Hotseat games? I ask because I tried hiring mercs but they were given to Player 1 (spawned around their city, under their control, contract in their name, etc.)

I realize you've moved on to Civ VI, but if seeing this, could you at least look into this problem? Pretty please, Mr JFD!

AI not using the mercs? Using Smart AI v3, they don't seem to be using mercenaries at all. Further, have the same problems as listed below in lua:

[99544.828] Runtime Error: C:\-\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\MODS\JFD's and Pouakai's Mercenaries (v 6)\Lua\Utilities\JFD_MercenariesUtilities.lua:259: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
[99545.406] JFD_FirstRate_Functions: PlotAreaSweepIterator((47, 37), r=1, s=1, d=fwd, w=out, c=no)
[99545.406] JFD_FirstRate_Functions: PlotAreaSweepIterator((40, 37), r=1, s=1, d=fwd, w=out, c=no)
[99545.406] JFD_FirstRate_Functions: PlotAreaSweepIterator((49, 34), r=1, s=1, d=fwd, w=out, c=no)
[99545.406] Runtime Error: C:\Users\-\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\MODS\JFD's and Pouakai's Mercenaries (v 6)\Lua\Utilities\JFD_MercenariesUtilities.lua:259: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)

In Mercenary tab I can see units but when I click any of them there are no contracts available
also I'm having error in console saying
Runtime Error: Assets\DLC\ModPack\Mods\JFD's and Pouakai's Mercenaries (v 6)\Lua\Utilities\JFD_MercenariesUtilities.lua:259: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
few times every turn

Unable to view the tech tree while in use.

Seems to be incompatible with Whowards DLL, any fix/ideas?

Hey uh, so after I did a 2 contracts and they were completed, there are no contracts I'm able to take. Is this a bug, a feature, and if it is a feature when can I take another contract?

Are people still having trouble with the contract tab on loading problem?

@salt you go to the scroll where you can check the demographics, and there should be a contracts tab

I'm having the "Contract overview"-Bug: The said windows is open whenever i load a previous game & i cannot close it.
Has similar occured to anyone else ? What can i do ?

btw: is there a keyboard-shortcut to open or close the "contract-overview"-window ?

How can I use this with MP Mod Manager? it says SQL files are not compatible.

*how do i get to the contracts tab

how exactly do i get the contracts? (i installed the mod correctly)

Black riders and other ones wont show up in the merc contracts?

Is this compatable with the EUI mod?

for some reason i do not seem to be getting any contracts to pick from at all. its been some 40 turns since i researched mercenaries and still got nothing, does this mod have any conflicts?

do they work with ai using custom civs and or the player using custom civs

(Con't) that being said, I love this mod given I've said for years that for most of history, mercs where the bulk of kingdom's actual troops. Due to that, I think this mod should make unit cost higher until Enlightenment Era to show it was usually cheaper to keep a small army and rent out troops when you went to war. Still think that too often you have access to mercs too high up the tech chain compared to the average tech of the entire game though.

I think this mod needs some way to force the AI to build defensive buildings earlier. Too often in the late Classical through Renn era, you see even Capitols w/o a strength of around 18 so a Civ with some cash can buy some more modern troops and just steamroll the enemy Civ. Even in games where I don't plan to fight wars, seeing an enemy capitol @18 points when I have access to Longswordsmen mercs is just too tempting to pass up.

mercenary overview

How do I purchase mercenary contracts? I have the mercenary I want in mercenary overview but I cannot seem to purchase them

This is really a great mod! And thanks for keeping up the good work ;)

But lately I had the problem, after researching the mercenary technology no contracts were shown in the menu. On reloading the game they appeared.

Could another mod altering the techtree lead to this strange behaviour? Like the Enlightment Era.


The same happens to me, I don't think it even works on reload for me. Hasn't yet. I also use the Enlightment Era as well as InfoAddict, Civ4 Diplo Options and Reform And Rule

This is really a great mod! And thanks for keeping up the good work ;)

But lately I had the problem, after researching the mercenary technology no contracts were shown in the menu. On reloading the game they appeared.

Could another mod altering the techtree lead to this strange behaviour? Like the Enlightment Era.

Yes,I believe 4 instant siege towers for 110 gold or 5 instant longswordman for 200 is way too good even considering the upkeep cost(whose larger upkeep is completely negliable).

@BreadBox Are you factoring maintenance costs into your analysis?

Just some balance feedback(In my opinion)
Many of the high end contract are of questionable value,you get like 1-2 good unit for 500+,its great but nothing to write home about.

Yet many of the "lower end" ''slave'' contract give you 5 top end uints instantly for less than 200 gold,this is completely insane espacially when "slaves" fight better than normal recruited unit,you could get 5 long swordman instantly in early medival and steamroll your enemy with it.

The freeflow nature of the contract system is just a balance nightmare and I hope it can be sorted out better.

The mod works only after I loadedd the save game from yesterday.
Is this suspose to happen?

To access merc contract click on the scroll at the upper right corner of the screen,then click merc contract

Since updating the mod I can't get it to work,the mercenary contract always display no contract availiable despite researching the tech.
Which mod file conflict should i look out for?Please help.

JFD , how are contracts purchased, with other civs or city states or otherwise ?

Yeah, Confirmed that when using the MPMPM modpack with this mod in there are no contracts available. Works in singleplayer (as a mod) but not when in the MPMPM dlc modpack. Does anyone know why this might be happening?

Same here. Really want to get this working. How do I obtain contracts?

@looter i have a modpack with this mod in but it doesn't work - the UI for the mercenaries shows up as well as having the ability to research the mercenaries tech but there are never any contracts to buy.

Hey JFD, awesome work as always! Do you know if this mod works in multiplayer via MPMPM without desyncs or crashes?

I downloaded mod now how do I initiate a contract after I have researched the tech. Is the mercenary camp mod a conflict ?

ok thanks.problem solved