Editing Battlefields (section)

=== Hiring your people ===

To hire mercenaries, you need to go to the Mercenaries battlefields shop which is located in Vaerlon, 8 rooms east from the Double Dragon inn.

Hiring costs some of your experience and silver, so you will need to have a total of 100k experience and also 100k of silver on you to complete this tutorial.

In the mercenaries shop, type 'list'.

First, you need a leader. Type:
<pre>
hire mercenary veteran
</pre>
My new mercenary veteran's name is Mongrel.

Then, hire two mercenary regulars. 
<pre>
2 hire mercenary regular
</pre>

These two new regulars are named Edge, and the other is named Raine.

As your new hires will be delivered to your inventory, drop them to be able to manipulate them. Make sure this is a safe spot in which you are not disturbed.
<pre>
drop all mercenary
</pre>

Now, we can build the company by using command "trooper". Let's place them all to team called alpha. How many different teams you want is up to you.

<pre>
trooper mongrel do squad-assign to alpha
trooper edge do squad-assign to alpha
trooper raine do squad-assign to alpha
</pre>

All three have now been assigned to a squad named 'alpha'. Try out command 'roster' to verify.

Your mercenary squad is now ready.

<pre>
get all mercenary
</pre>

Note: Outside of battle, all battlefield assets like these mercenaries are represented in form of tokens, which is not an unusual way for any wargame player to organize their rank and file. In this inactive form, they are almost weightless, saveable objects you can get and drop and manipulate normally. You can also save them over boot, so your company won't be lost even if you're not in battle. The only way you can lose them is in battle.