Summertime and the living is expensive
June 21, 2009
So I play Protectorate… so I’ve started Trollbloods… Searforge was my first love, and still comes out to play despite my owning over three times the points worth of Menites.
We’re coming up on the Summer Rampage – the next NQ will be out shortly with details, and you know what would make me happy?
Mercs not being the last book printed.
It’ll be an uphill battle – it can be said that certain factions will win out strictly based on popularity, and it can be true that the sheer number of players from the primary factions threatens to bury the mercs at the end of the list as well…
… but you can’t tell me you wouldn’t find it entertaining, and a very real example of Privateer’s integrity, if Mercs managed to place better as a faction than one of the four primary factions, and thus bumped one of the big four to a lower slot in the release schedule.
I charge everybody with a merc army out there to play them for the Summer Rampage. I charge everybody who’s using a different faction to play honourably and eschew mercs in your lists – if you want to use mercs, then play a merc warcaster and give credit where it’s due to the hardworking sellswords who make your victories possible. If you’re not willing to promote the merc cause, then I suggest you shouldn’t be using mercs at all during the event!
I have spoken. Make it so.
Mercenaries will be last, and nothing can be done about it.
I will try and make Mercs first, as is about 4 more people I know. So Boise ID is covered.
Mercs won’t be last. For one, there’s a lot less b*tching and moaning in the Merc forums compared to the other faction forums. Secondly, there are plenty of people who are on board to ensure they aren’t last.
Someone on the forums said “Why Mercs first? Why not ‘Let’s not be last.’” I think Ralph Waldo Emerson said it best: “We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”
And by my count, we might have as many as 8 in Boise. Not a lot necessarily, but enough to dominate the board at my LGS.
While predominantly a Cryx player, I would love to see this happen and have thrown my hat into the ring to make it so. If anything, it would amuse me greatly if one of the other factions got bumped below us, even if it was Cryx. Imagine the whining that’s going to generate from it.
Mercs first! For coin and glory in Llael, my friends!