Mercenary: Quick Question

[Quitti]

It goes into your lab. You can assign it freely to whatever commander you want to.

[Knai]

However, if you assign it to the mercenary, you aren't getting it back while the mercenary is still alive.

[Makinus]

one fun tactic is to give "bad" artifacts to mercenaries, like the "Snake Bladder Stick" to the mercenary so the next that hire it will receive the bad effects...

[Anaconda]

Originally Posted by Makinus

one fun tactic is to give "bad" artifacts to mercenaries, like the "Snake Bladder Stick" to the mercenary so the next that hire it will receive the bad effects...

Quick thought, any1 tried to feed bad items for enemy heroes by sending own champion on suicide mission and praying enemy champ will pick the item up from the battle field?

[Makinus]

Originally Posted by Anaconda

Quick thought, any1 tried to feed bad items for enemy heroes by sending own champion on suicide mission and praying enemy champ will pick the item up from the battle field?

Sometimes i sent disposable commanders to the arena with cursed itens and "bad" artifacts and the AI got it...

Just remember that itens that eventually cause the commander to change form (like the one that transforms it in a werewolf) probably do not work in pretenders...

[Knai]

Originally Posted by Makinus

one fun tactic is to give "bad" artifacts to mercenaries, like the "Snake Bladder Stick" to the mercenary so the next that hire it will receive the bad effects...

The snake bladder stick can be a lot of fun in the right hands. It certainly isn't universally bad, it simply has to be used carefully, such as with poison immune thugs that are kept well away from most troops. Toss these in along with a column of raised skeletons, and the area turns that much nastier.