That’s only for Europeans tho, Asian civs were completely left out of the merc rework. No new options to get a merc you want, no rework of merc cards to be infinite, no possibility of getting imperial mercenaries.
One very nice touch from the DE to mercenaries, is that they tried to make some Age IV mercenaries cards more viable to Europeans by making them infinite shipments. These are the mercenary armies card like “Hire Highland Mercenary Army” “Hire Mediterranean Mercenary Army” and “Hire Asian Mercenary Army”.
Of course not all civs get access to the three of them (except for Spain), but at least to two of them.
Asian civs are the exception to this. With India you get ‘‘Hire Idian Mercenary Army’’, …
Both European and Asian civs have access to reliably recruiting mercenaries through the Saloon and Monastery respectively.
With the DE changes, the devs rightfully gave European civs the option to access Age V mercenaries through The Mercenary Contractor age up politician to keep them relevant late-game.
I propose that Asian civs get this opportunity as well through a TC upgrade similar to the natives one, or putting it behind a wall (similar to picking a politician for Euros), which can be by…
Regarding Original Post, I agree with everything but making mercs cost no pop.
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