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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 2467431" data-attributes="member: 7280">Well I did look through that too, but I had decided at the time that having specialists of some sort wasn't necessary. I could change them if you'd like, even get some real specialists since I've got Arms & Equipment which has (I think) fairly detailed prices for every sort of hireling. Basically though, I was trying to be simple because I figured that a politics game was going to be more about nailing up bunches of fliers and getting neighborhoods cased for information from polling.They're not porters though. They're pollers. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I've paid people to be campaign workers, basically. The sailors are the crew for the yacht, and then there's 20 thugs/guards/whatever. I hired them as trained because I figured that would be the way I'd get guys with high Str/low Int and fairly good Intimidation scores. Crowd control guys, men to send into stores to shake down scared shopkeepers, men that could do manual labor when I'm needing impromptu concrete footwear work done upon low level political opponents - that sort of thing.If I was expecting to be dragging them around with me I'd worry about it more, but I'm paying these guys wages not employing them to come shack up with me. They're not followers, so I figured that they'd have houses and wives and kids to go home to in the city for the most part. I like family sorts, because people with families are careful about what they say and do to endanger their...employment.Why? A coachman is a groom as well, he's just not as trained in animal husbandry as someone who specializes...and I don't have mercenaries yet? I've got innocent, lovely pollsters and about a roomful of dudes paid to look menacing in whatever they brought from home. Should I repurchase the thugs as soldiers and maybe see what an 8th level fighter might cost to rent his services? <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /></blockquote>

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