Mercenaries should not benefit from national ideas?

[alertiu5]

As stated in topic theme, why would mercenaries from somewhere abroad get, for example, swedish +20% combat ability? Not like they were trained by swedish instructors. It really makes mercenaries hired by countries with strong mil ideas like France/Prussia/Sweden too strong. I can understand them getting bonuses from adivisor like commandant and generals though.

There shall be come kind of penalty for exhausting manpower, other than having to spend some money. First that came to my mind - mercenaries shall never have as high morale as normal troops - they fight for money, not nation.

 

[Woifee]

why the moral malus. Money to support my wife and children. That's much more important than nation.

Especially since nationalism wasn't a big deal in most of time the game playes in.

 

[t6.28]

I think mercenaries should come in groups with their own leaders and stats. Maybe you could then have different costs for stronger/weaker mercenaries, so you could buy some with maybe +10% morale, +20% combat ability and +10% discipline for 1 gold/month of 1 unit of infantry or some with -10% moral, -10% discipline for only 0.25 gold/month.

 

[BrokenSky]

As stated in topic theme, why would mercenaries from somewhere abroad get, for example, swedish +20% combat ability? Not like they were trained by swedish instructors. It really makes mercenaries hired by countries with strong mil ideas like France/Prussia/Sweden too strong. I can understand them getting bonuses from adivisor like commandant and generals though.

There shall be come kind of penalty for exhausting manpower, other than having to spend some money. First that came to my mind - mercenaries shall never have as high morale as normal troops - they fight for money, not nation.

I disagree with the morale malus, but not getting the bonusses from ideas is good.