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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 1771973" data-attributes="member: 9254">IMC there are 3 kinds of mercenary groupsbrute squads: your archetypical mercenary group.  Varies from a half-dozen to fifty or so.  Some are very well equipped, others are quasi-legitimate gangs.  Logistics tend to be light, given their small size.  Specialists: The best at what they do, for a price.  Many armies will hire a number of these units to flesh out the strategic and tactical weaknesses of their permanent forces.  Each company is probably no more than a few squads of whatever type they are.  Good specializations are: artilerists, cavalry, archers, scouts, and sappers/field engineers.  These tend to handle their own logistics, given their specialized gear.  Army for hire.  Typically a noble (duke, marquis, etc) from a nearby region who's more than willing to get paid to kill people who aren't his countrymen.   These tend to be large forces, up to 10,000 men, able to siege a city by themselves.  A complete logistics system will be in place.</blockquote>