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Mercenary CaptainReport

English：Mercenary Captain　·　Characters

One conversation hires you a whole squad. Bodyguards run 2,000 cats a day and outpost protectors 1,000, renewal is just talking to him again — and the camp he leads comes with free beds.

Contents
  1. The rates
  2. Are they worth hiring?
  3. Mercenary Camps
  4. Where to find one
  5. See also
Need a merc?

Mercenary Captains are the commanders of the Mercenary Guild. The guild's entire hiring flow runs through them: talk to the leader of a squad and you hire the squad.

The rates

ServicePrice
Bodyguard2,000 Cats / day
Outpost protector1,000 Cats / day
TipRenewing a contract requires nothing special — just talk to the same captain again.

Are they worth hiring?

The wiki's assessment is fair: they are competent fighters with extremely low-quality gear. The captain himself has attributes and weapon skills at 35–55 (randomised by 10), which is a substantial sheet — but his Samurai Armour is only Shoddy grade (15% chance of Standard).

For a low-skilled squad that needs a body between it and the world, that is still a good deal.

NoteA piece of guild trivia: despite the name, no member of the Mercenary Guild wears Mercenary Plate — even though the game claims it has become standard among their kind.

Mercenary Camps

Randomly spawning Mercenary Camps appear in Watcher's Rim and The Hook. A camp's standard squad is:

TipThe camp spawns Camp Beds, which the player can use for free. In a dead mountain zone like Watcher's Rim — nothing growing, nothing to hunt, no weather generated at all — that is more useful than the mercenaries.

Where to find one

Besides the camps, guild bar squads spawn in Black Scratch, Flats Lagoon, Heng, Mongrel, Shark, the Smugglers Bar, The Hub, Waystation and World's End, as well as any United Cities town. Captains also wander from town to town.

See also

SourcesMercenary Captain、Mercenary Guild、Mercenary Camp、Watcher's Rim
Categories: CharactersTradersBodyguardsMercenary Guild