Most non-Mercenary Theme Forces place a limit on how many Mercenaries can be included. If you're only playing with 1 caster, and that caster is a Mercenary warcaster, then by definition you're playing a Mercenary force.
In a normal game, this means other Factions need to hire a Mercenary 'Jack Marshal or a Mercenary 'Junior Warcaster'.
Mercenary warjacks can only be controlled by a Mercenary model.New players often misunderstand how they can include Mercenary models in a non-Mercenary Faction (especially how they can include Mercenary warjacks/warcasters). And once you have one of those forces built, an army in The Irregulars theme is usually easy to acquire. A Cryx or Convergence player could expand into Strange Bedfellows. A Cygnar or Protectorate player could build a Llaelese Resistance army. The Mercenary 'faction' serves as a way for players to branch out and expand their collections. Mercenary models are normally allowed to be included in the armies of other factions as friendly, non-faction models on a theme-by-theme basis where they are seen onesy-twosey.Īs a faction unto itself, Mercenaries are comprised of NINE mostly unrelated theme forces that allow wildly different models from nearly every faction in the game.
