I don't officially know if there were mercenaries in WW2, but I know the French Foreign Legion were in ww2 and you COULD classify them as mercenaries. Just thought it would be a good idea, instead of having to spend a day or 2 to deploy a new unit, why not deploy a mercenary? It might be over powered, but you could make it cost a lot of money and make troops who battle with the mercenaries loose morale easier. Just throwing some ideas around .
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9 Jun 2016, 15:42
Pablo22510 wrote:
Good idea, but already too many units, plus paras and marines are comin' out soon.
Well, the mercenaries should be a great update as other units.
"I came, I saw, I conquered" Written in a report to Rome 47 B.C., after conquering Pharnaces at Zela in Asia Minor in just five days; as quoted in Life of Caesar by Plutarch; reported to have been inscribed on one of the decorated wagons in the Pontic triumph, in Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Julius, by Suetonius. "Alea iacta est" Gaius Julius Caesar.
9 Jun 2016, 15:51
Caesar wrote:
Pablo22510 wrote:
Good idea, but already too many units, plus paras and marines are comin' out soon.
Well, the mercenaries should be a great update as other units.
I have changed opinion. Mercenaries weren't used a lot during WW2.
The past is a foreign country.
9 Jun 2016, 15:52
Pablo22510 wrote:
I have changed opinion. Mercenaries weren't used a lot during WW2.
The mercenaries were used especially in the Pacific and the Russian front.
"I came, I saw, I conquered" Written in a report to Rome 47 B.C., after conquering Pharnaces at Zela in Asia Minor in just five days; as quoted in Life of Caesar by Plutarch; reported to have been inscribed on one of the decorated wagons in the Pontic triumph, in Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Julius, by Suetonius. "Alea iacta est" Gaius Julius Caesar.
9 Jun 2016, 15:55
Caesar wrote:
Pablo22510 wrote:
I have changed opinion. Mercenaries weren't used a lot during WW2.
The mercenaries were used especially in the Pacific and the Russian front.
Yes, but you can't really call them mercenaries. Mercenaries fought for money; the ones in WW2 didn't.
The past is a foreign country.
9 Jun 2016, 15:57
Pablo22510 wrote:
Caesar wrote:
Pablo22510 wrote:
I have changed opinion. Mercenaries weren't used a lot during WW2.
The mercenaries were used especially in the Pacific and the Russian front.
Yes, but you can't really call them mercenaries. Mercenaries fought for money; the ones in WW2 didn't.
So they're pretty much militia, which is already a unit.
Even if they did fight for money, the stats would be virtually identical to militia, with different costs. There would be no point.
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9 Jun 2016, 15:57
Pablo22510 wrote:
Yes, but you can't really call them mercenaries. Mercenaries fought for money; the ones in WW2 didn't.
The Cossacks of the Russian steppes, fought for money.
"I came, I saw, I conquered" Written in a report to Rome 47 B.C., after conquering Pharnaces at Zela in Asia Minor in just five days; as quoted in Life of Caesar by Plutarch; reported to have been inscribed on one of the decorated wagons in the Pontic triumph, in Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Julius, by Suetonius. "Alea iacta est" Gaius Julius Caesar.
9 Jun 2016, 16:12
To be fair, a lot of people signed up in the USA for the money. I mean, it wasn't fantastic pay, but if the GI died, their families received $10,000.
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9 Jun 2016, 17:19
Caesar wrote:
Pablo22510 wrote:
Yes, but you can't really call them mercenaries. Mercenaries fought for money; the ones in WW2 didn't.
The Cossacks of the Russian steppes, fought for money.
I don't think so. They fought with the Germans 'cos they hated Stalin.
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