Thread:High King Ithilion/@comment-198.180.129.13-20171130160548

to add some more flavor and realism to middle earth, how about adding wandering mercenary captians that dont belong to a single faction, instead, they wander much like traveling traders, mercenary captians would sell a random assortment of mercenary troops, they would be random soldiers from any faction but at double or triple the hiring price and with "mercenary" right before the name of the troop, the mercenaries would not attack any faction naturally and nor will any faction attack them, mercenaries would only attack the foes of the player who hired them, since you cant get any alignment with the mercenary faction, you must pay at least double or triple the base price of the unit your about to hire, the high price is explained by the obvious fact that you could hire soldiers that normally are not avalable to you, such as orc soldiers as a gondorian or dwarf soldiers if your an evil player, a rule of thumb would be twice the price for weak troops, triple the price for normal soldiers and arhcers, quadruple the price for cavalry and 5 times the price for special units such as the gondorian tower guards or isengard beserkers, pretty cool dont you think? maybe the units would also have a loyalty raiting, you could raise it by giving the mercenaries silver or by giving them new equipment and by doing quests for them, if the loyalty raiting was high enough the mercenaries would be totally loyal to you, if it was too low they may turn tail and run or even betray you in the middle of a fight, if you have the time as well and you wish to do so, please send this idea to menvas, goodbye sir!  