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THeir is 1 or 2 threads on mercs already but my question wasnt asked..

what is the advantage of attack and defence mercs? are they stronger? do they no require wepons from the armory? i dont understand??? all i hav gathered so far about mercs is if u buy alot of untrained ones u can sell them and get alot back lol

Prendii ) ps i will get around to signing up to this forum eventually!

Well, instead of training your untrained units, you can just buy attack and defence mercs, this way, if you dont have enough units, you just buy some mercs.

howvever these are not as good as super trained units. If you tjust have normal units ur better off going with spies

they have a search button that goes along with their fighting skills.
really you never give them a weapon you only use them as meat shields

Anonymous wrote:THeir is 1 or 2 threads on mercs already but my question wasnt asked..

it is just the point not to stop after reading the first 2 threads about mercs but check them all...
those questions are verry often asked

Mercs are the same in strength as 'normal' trained units, but much weaker than 'super' trained units. They require weapons in order to deal damage, and their only benifit is that they are cheap for the short term.
In the long run, Super Soldiers are a much better deal.

Prendii(?) wrote:all i hav gathered so far about mercs is if u buy alot of untrained ones u can sell them and get alot back lol

Lol, that is funny because in every single UM thread i've ever read we say the exact opposite.
Buying an selling mercs (Untrained mercs incl.) gives you a loss of 50%. Hardly a bonus

you buy mercs so you can put more Untrained into miners.

Flavar wrote:they have a search button that goes along with their fighting skills.
really you never give them a weapon you only use them as meat shields

Actually a good idea may be to equip them with the weakest weapon possible so that they may deal marginal extra damage, but more importantly serve as sab and attack shields.

Weak weps used to be good for anti-sab protection, but I don't believe that works anymore.

Personally, I equip my mercs anyway. Since i lack the upgrades to make them an effective meat-shield, I figure the couple extra mill of damage they do is worth it. But Supers come first.

I use a bunch of mercs because they are cheap and easy to replace. I also make sure to keep a couple thousand extra mercs just in case they start getting killed off.

One dies, another one steps in his place. That way my stat's don't taper off as much if I get the random probe hit.

welll it also helps if you don't have that much uu and have good amouts of naq... and the market doesn't trade for uu anymore... they are good subs.... I dun mind losing them... and they're cheap