Mercenaries

### Tavern/Inn Mercenaries

There has been a replacement of many of the original mercenaries with the SOS Submod ones. These mercenaries can be hired from the taverns at a price. Beware, these mercenaries won't always be found at taverns, and you simply need to wait about a week for the taverns to rescramble.

#### Raventree Mercenary Line

The Raventree Mercenary Line was created specifically for the Sultan of Sultans' Bloodraven series. Since the Raven's Tooth were a fans fav, Sultan of Sultans has decided to add it to the submod.

The Raventree Mercenaries specialise into foot archers. Although the Raventree Archer, the first unit of the tree, is mediocre in stats and nothing special, the Elite Raventree Archer is a far cry from its precusor.

##### Special Mention: Raven's Tooth

However, the Raven's Tooth are the deadliest of them all.

The Raven's Tooth are the best archers in the submod, and the results are not even close. Compared to other high tier archers, their power draw is capped at 6, but they make up for it due to the insanely high proficiency and their usage of the Wierwood Bow. The Wierwood bow does 53 piercing damage and has 100 accuracy.

However, the upgrade cost into a Raven's Tooth is high and hard to do.

The Raven's Tooth can hold their own in close combat as well due to their morning star and shield. Furthermore, the Raven's Tooth is the most armoured archer unit in the game.

Enjoy kicking ass with them!

#### Silver Guild Line

The Silver Guild are an Essosi Company that have never broken a contract. Their troops often travel to taverns and offer their services as hired blades. The Silver Guild specialize in the violent and brutal close-quartered combat similar to that of the vanguard of Westerosi knights.

While their first tier troop, the Silver Guild Warrior, has low powerstrike and proficiency - as a result do tend to die - their Veteran Silver Guild Warriors are high level troops and do have better armor. (They look the same but the Hauberk of the Veteran is better). They are not costly to field despite being mercenaries, and the upgrade cost is not that expensive.

#### House Guards

House Guards are a mercenary bodyguard unit that offer their services across all taverns across the entiure world. They are medium armoured and do have some decent combat stats. They are not that expensive to field and can serve as good filler troops or garrison troops.

Although not considered battle winning by themselves, they are good supporting units when in formation with other infantry units and good archer coverage behind them.

They are also participants in tournaments, and tend to make it to the later rounds.

#### Sons of the Harpy

The Sons of the Harpy used to be an insurgent group against the rule of Queen Daenerys I Targaryen. However, after their failed insurgency, they fled the city of Mereen and the area of Slaver's Bay to continue serving as sellswords.

They are proficient in their weapon use, but lack high HP. Despite their heavy armor, their pride of using the ghiscari skull cap makes them tend to die,

They have high athletics, as a way to present their quick and stealthy attacks.

***(SULTAN OF SULTANS NOTE: "The Sons of the Harpy may not spawn without head armour. This is not intentional and they are set to be guaranteed a helmet in battle. This is likely a native bug which I have no control over.")***

#### Skagosi Warrior

The Skagosi are from an island just off the coast of the mainland of the North. They are officially part of the North, but in reality they rule themselves as little contact is established. They call themselves the Stonemen, and are ferocious but unpredictable warriors.

The Skagosi Warrior is a shock infantry that comes equipped with a two handed axe. While they have medium armor, they do have relatively low HP and Ironflesh, which means a large quantity of Skagosi Warriors will be needed to achieve their true potential.

However, if they make it to the enemy lines, they will be swinging and destroying their foes. There is no unit that could stop them when that axe comes crashing down.

#### YiTish Warrior

In order to have a cool addition to the submod, the YiTish Warrior has been added. The YiTish warrior is a very good spear unit that can help support your infantry against the heavy shock cavalry that you will inevitably face.

While good spear units, they can be vulnerable when the enemy is too close that they must draw out their swords. In such a scenario, ensure you have supporting infantry units to help keep them alive, otherwise the YiTish warriors will become Yeeted Warriors.

They are medium armored, with a total of 42 body armor

A strategy would be to make Princess Khiarai a vassal and give her the YiTish Warriors so that she may host a warband of them.

#### Freelancers

Freelancer Novices are hireable at the taverns and inns across Westeros and Essos. They are upgradeable into some quality high tier troops. The Freelancer line has a lot of options for the player to upgrade into so they may cover the weakness/gaps in their army.

The Freelancer line can be thought as an upgrade to the original mercenary line, although not a replacement.

### Mercenary Companies

***It must be first mentioned that in order to access these troops, you must start a new game otherwise they will simply not spawn. Party Templates do not change when a current save is on going according to the tests. Only when a new game was started did these mercenary trees come up.***

#### Windblown

The Windblown are comprised out of many men, both infantry and cavalry. They are found in Essos and are led by the Tattered Prince. They arae notable for their quality experienced soldiers, in their Windblown Sergeants, Officers, and Rangers.

They are comprised of people from all across the world, but thier common tongue is High Valyrian.

#### Second Sons

The Second Sons are a group of 500 men that patrol in Essos until they are hired. They have impressive archers, with good supporting infantry and cavalry.

They are worth getting in the late game when you need more men. Since the Second Sons are capable, in the late game, they can be very cost effective.

#### Stormcrows

Similarly to the aforementioned mercenary companies, the Stormcrows can be found in Essos and will size at around 500 strong. They are comprised of only cavalry, although they are elite and quality units.

They can not only serve as good horsemen, but can be useful in sieges as well due to their numbers and also their abilities as a foot soldier.

The Stormcrows are a cataphract unit.