/v/ - Video Games

>>15352995

Haven't played PW but MGSV the mercenary thing doesn't really do anything for the gameplay, and there's certainly no logistical component.

>>15352982

Evil Genius?

MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries

>>15352982

Jagged Alliance has you managing mercenary hiring in addition to controlling the team in the field. You have to pay them each day too

Langrisser games have the ability to hire mercs each stage to support your heroes

7.62 High Calibre and the modifications.

>>15352982

in most age of wonders games you can get units that arent native to your faction through various means, and often theyll have issues with morale. for instance in shadow magic every race is assigned an alignment of varying evil or goodness, and even if they like you they might hate the other units in the group theyve been assigned to, they might desert if their morale is too low.

>>15353814

This and AoE III has you recruiting everything from Aztecs to Indians along with specific upgrades that you can't get anywhere else. You also get to buy bands of European mercenaries from your hometown using cards, but they're pretty expensive. In later expansions you also get more units along with a specific mercenary building where you can purchase map specific neutral units like cowboys or pirates.

It's a very minor component (and only useful in a very small number of circumstances), but the Rhye's and Fall mod for Civ4 allows you to hire mercenary soldiers. It's minor because there's not going to be too many circumstances where you have lots of money but so little production that you can't make your own soldiers. The only real advantage is that the mercenaries tend to have incredible promotions, so can curb-stomp the same type of units if used in the early-game.

>>15353682

Hard Life is still the best not-Jagged Alliance I've ever played. No other strategy game I've ever played has been accessible enough to allow a retard like me to get into it but was autistic enough to allow me to do shit like handload my shotgun magazines (slug/shot/slug/shot master race) or actually need to load a prepaid card and be within reception range to use a cell phone

>>15353840

doesnt one of the factions specialize in hiring mercenaries? maybe swiss?

>>15352982

JA2 and Mechwarrior.

>>15352982

Endless legend comes to mind but it's not necessary to be successful. You do have to manage armies all the same however.

In Lords of Magic you can train followers or hire mercenaries. The latter don't require to spend followers and have lesser upfront costs but their turn upkeep is ridiculous. Only really good to throw away at armies invading your citadel.

>>15369293

could you neglect your own military infrastructure and focus more on whatever you need to upkeep your mercenaries to make them a more viable main army?

Total War, sort of. Carthage relied heavily on mercenaries when they were invading Italy.

>>15352982

thank you for reminded me of star sector and introducing me to freemen guerilla warfare. that's my fetish

>>15353899

this, plus you get to kill minorities in the jungle

Battle Brothers - turn based hex grid combat with outside of fighting you have to hire mercs manage between having enough food, medical supplies, tools to fix up armor/weapons, extra ammo for ranged weapons, morale, and of course money to pay them. Overworld has you traveling around in real time to pick/avoid fights, visit towns, wander the wilds, while random events that can effect your warband as well as towns/cities economy. Too many monsters lead to a less trusting town = less people to hire, worse deals. too many bandits lead to blocked roads = everything is jacked up in price but you can take advantage to sell things as a jacked price. Merc's background dictate what kind of events can happen in the warband. gamblers may gamble stuff away or even win you something, noble mercs may pick fights with lowborn mercs etc. These backgrounds also can play off each other in good or bad ways.

>>15352982

Darkest Dungeon

Bonus points for managing how stressed your mercenaries are with religion and prostitutes

X-COM: Enemy Unknown (and the original, sort of). Not sure what an "instance based shooter" is, but you're required to train and balance a team of agents, most of which you get from purchasing or as rewards from other nations. I guess Star Control is another good option.

>>15353026

Same with PW

Play Majesty 1 and 2. Video is only for OP only since he's to young to know the glory of the series

>>15370988

Majesty 2 sucks donkey dicks though. Everything that made the first one fun is gone. Even the humor falls flat.

>>15371003

Wrong. Heros are less retarded and better.

I'd like a proper Majesty sequel please.

Unironically Oblivion/Skyrim with mods

>>15372871

Stop posting kikebook maymays, faggot

Various Stalker mods will give you companions.

gsg Europa Universalis series and MEIOU for 4. You basically need mercenaries in mid to late game if you play as merchant republics.

Distant Worlds has an entire expansion where you have to play mercenaries against each other as a fledgling civ in the age of shadows.

Various 4x games also have mercenaries.