Question: I'm building a battle force with GunSlinger Pilots in mercenary mechs and will use a Mercenary Contract card. If I pay the points for the Contract card to have the mercs join, say the Clan Sea Fox (i didn't say i was smart :p), do I have to pay the pilot recruitment into the Sea Fox faction as well?

I know the merc faction card will change all the merc infantry and vehicles into the merc contract faction, but the gunflinger pilots in merc mechs has me a little fuzzy... and trying to squeeze every point i can get.

Thanks in advance.

Because Mercenary Contracts give the unit, and the unit only, I believe, that faction symbol, I would say you would have to pay the recruitment for the pilot, unless it is a legendary pilot with the same faction symbol as the Mercenary Contract. I also believe that you can't mercenary contract a unit and then place a pilot that won't work for that faction in the mech. For example, you can use a Liao Mercenary Contract on Rooster and then put Cecil Neumann in Rooster, because Cecil won't work for Liao.

No, if you use a mercenary contract you do NOT have to pay for pilot recruits.
Lemme see if i can dig something up about that.

here it is:




BUT! this does not work for pilots that will NOT work for a faction, so if there's a faction symbol with a dash through it the pilot can not be recruited to that faction by any means.

Thanks Brinxter!!! :)

I was part right at least.

However,
Could you do any or all of the following:
-recruit the Twins to Highlander by paying the cost?
-use the Highlander MC to recruit them to Highlander?
-use the new RotS/Highlander MC to recruit them to Highlander?

Thanks in advance...

Yeah you could.

Again, yes you can

Sadly, you cannot because that would also add the RotS faction symbol to their base, and that cannot happen, or atleast thats how i see it.


Anytime :)