Question about mercenaries

[von_Schmidt]

And on mercenary rebid: if you rebid for mercs you have already hired (or for new ones for that matter)and the province you have selected at that point gets taken from you the next turn, your bid will not go through.

Your mercs will leave you, despite being nowhere near the province in question and your bid being the highest.

Basically, make sure you have selected a province which will remain safe; your home province is a good choice, unless an enemy is near (or a random event takes it away from you - always fun).

[Ironhawk]

Another question about mercs:

How is the cost of a bid to re-hire a merc effected if that merc is already giving your nation a discount?

For example I am playing Ulm in my current game and Fordo Boggit's Elite Warriors offered to work for me originally at.. I dunno I think it was 75% of thier normal price. I hired them and when time came to re-bid thier asking price (iirc) was half of the 75% price they originally offered.

Makes sense, right? But is my bid figure doubled only, since I have the mercs employ? Or is it increased by 125% to reflect the fact that fordo likes Ulm?

[sushiboat]

Against the AI, asking price plus 10 will win the original bid, and discounted asking price plus 5 will win the rebid.