Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26486187-20160921055808/@comment-25841881-20160923211032

Beauhunt III wrote: Recneps wrote: Beau, did you read my comment? They can't become a cheap and overpowered army. You have to provide their gear. When you provide gear, it takes gear. You could get more, better units by selling the stuff to make the gear, instead of using the gear for NPCs. Compared to suiting Elves in Mirthril, you could suit up mercenaries at a fraction of the cost; They will be the cheapest army to suit up compared to all the others. No, not in mithril. They'll be much less in coins, but that is not the dominant cost. The mithril is. If you can afford to equip cheap, easily-dying NPCs in mithril, you can easily afford 46 - with minimum alignment - extra for the swapping to a ranged weapon, and 150% health.. It'd be much better of a unit for the extra cost of the coins that a bandit pack drops.. And if it weren't mithril, you can get units already equipped in it. Let's take Dwarven-level armour. You can pay 6 coins and 24 dwarven steel to hire and armour a mercenary.. Or you could pay 30 coins and 0 dwarven steel to hire a Dwarven Warrior. That's 24 more coins. One costs 6 coins and 24 steel, the other 30 coins and 0 dwarven steel. That means that, if they're the same cost, one steel is the same as one coin.. However, one steel is not the same as one coin. Let's say you sold it to a Dalish Blacksmith, which can be found fairly close to the Iron Hills, where'd you go to hire a Dwarven Warrior. Going by minimum pricing, you could get 3 coins for the coal and iron to make one steel.. Not counting the fuel used for alloying. That means that you could sell the materials for the mercenary's armour for 72 coins. Add that to the 6 coins to hire the mercenary, and you have 78 coins of value in each Dwarven-armoured mercenary. With that, you could hire 2.6 Dwarven Warriors. That means that the net value of 26 Dwarven Warriors is the same as the net value of 10 Mercenaries, with the same armour and not counting weapons for either.. That means mercenaries are, in fact, more expensive.