Mercenary Limitation

[cavalierdejeux]

I am new in Hell Dorado game and I have question about Mercenary units limitation when they are part of other faction.

Can I take OFFICER from... let's say... Westerners and rest of Company make ONLY from Mercenaries?

Regards

[YoshiRyu]

Yes you can, but you will have a big disadventage : instead of giving their CMD for the company's pool, each mercenary (even the troopers) will make you loose 1 CMD in this pool.
Westerner officer + only Mercenaries, possible, but will play with 0 CMD...

[mzi]

Yes and No...
In the first version of the rules, this was possible.
Nevertheless, this rule has been revised in the following way:
- if you hire no merc in a company, you get a +1CMD bonus, and the ability to play your officer "in reaction" once (this means you can play him as though he benefited from a Vae Soli order, but this cannot be canceled);
- if you hire 1 to 36 points of mercs, nothing changes from the old rules;
- from 37 to 50 points, you do not get the CMD bonus from ANY of the Independant mercs you hire;
- from 51 points onward, you do not gain any bonus, and you LOOSE 1CMD point for each hired merc.

(I am not 100% sure about the thresholds, but that is the idea.)

[cavalierdejeux]

Thank you

Thresholds are:
  0
1-35
36-50
51+