RE: Re[3]: Merc Guild

G'day,

> Merc Units will also have to deal with grudges.  I'm sorry, but if
> someone ever shoots at me, they'll have a hard time earning my trust
> in a future conflict.

Wouldn't that run contrary to what happened a lot in Europe? OK I'm
simplifying, but the Saxons changed sides a bunch during the Napoleonic
wars
(once in the middle of a battle at the battle of nations) and the
English
and French fought side by side against the Russians in the Crimean Wars
not
too long after having faced off against each other in the Napoleonic
Wars.
There's even a classic anecdote about the French and English staff being
set
up on adjacent bits of turf and a doddering old French general referring
to
his maps saying ".. and then we will deploy here and attack the
English..",
at which point the younger members of the French staff tried not too
look to
nervous as all the English eyes swung their way (well more or less - the
book's in Townsville with Derek's Dad at present).

Cheers

Beth