Mercenary

Mercenary is one of the professions available when building a character.

Description
Mercenaries fight for whoever pays the most. They are often viewed as disreputable, since they seemingly follow no rules. Many have bad reputations as corrupt sell-swords.

Mercenaries and other soldiers are trained in the use of different weapons, depending on the type of unit to which they belong. Skirmishers wear only light armor and use swords, hatchets, or maces, whereas some units of heavy infantry use two-handed weapons (indeed, the famed troops known as Andergasters derive their name from a type of two-handed sword). Archers normally provide support for the close-combat fighters in their units, but nevertheless occasionally join the melee.

It is usually easy to differentiate between skirmishers, lightly armored mercenaries, and heavily armored mercenaries. Skirmishers often go completely unarmored and carry ranged weapons with which to punish enemies from afar. Lightly armored mercenaries wear surcoats with either leather armor or chainmail. Heavily armored mercenaries often wear plate armor and use two-handed weapons.

Advantages

 * Improved Regeneration (LP)
 * Increased Life Points
 * Increased Toughness

Combat techniques

 * Brawling 5
 * Crossbows 5
 * Impact Weapons 5

Combat special abilities

 * Forceful Blow I
 * Precise Shot I
 * Combat Reflexes I

Skills

 * Body Control 3
 * Feat of Strength 3
 * Self-Control 4
 * Survival 3
 * Treat Wounds 3
 * Fast-Talk 3