Mercs
Mercs are mercenaries that you can buy for your own use. They will fight for you and guard a place if you tell them to do so. They are useful to guard a base, for example, or to help you to kill creatures.
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Managing mercs
Recruiting
Mercs Recruiters are established in several towns. They are usually in a house, surrounded by some of their men. Talk to the Merc Recruiter to be able to buy him a merc. Once bought, a merc will belong to you until he dies, and will never ask you for more caps.
Interests
As you can hire a lot of different mercs, and give them a lot of weapons, it would be good to know exactly what you want to do with them. For example, guarding a base, you'll need both: Big Guns mercs and snipers - ghouls snipers are awesome. Rockets may knock-out the enemy while snipers are shooting at him. To help you with getting experience, you'll rather need mercs using energy rifles, making damages but slowly, to let you able to kill the mobs.
Mercs are expensive and never respawn. Making them wandering with you might be dangerous for them, so it would be smarter to use them as guards - for your base, tent, caravan, whatever needs to be guarded. You can tell them to kill anyone but your faction's members, or to kill only your enemies or friends - record them on your faction's computer, etc.
Transporting mercs
Followers (both mercs and slaves, not players) formula is this one : (Charisma-1)/2 plus any additional perks that give you extra slots, like Magnetic Personality.
Even the mercs/slaves guarding your tent (or base or any other place) are considered as following you, so pay attention to choosing which companions are the most useful for you.
The buying
Please note that prices are changing all the time but position on list while buying stays same. If you buy a merc, buying the very same merc again will be a bit more expensive for everyone. Also, this price will decrease over time. Prices indicated here are then only the starting price for each merc. All mercs are delivered with a brand new, fully-loaded weapon.
New Reno
New Reno's merc recruiter is in the main entrance area, opposite the Desperados casino. He will sell you human mercs (HtH, small guns, big guns, energy guns...). Those same mercs are also sold in NCR and Redding.
- 1. ~800 caps : Punk woman with green Mohawk, wearing a leather jacket, holding a Combat Knife. 95 hp
- 2. ~1300 caps : Man wearing a metal armor, holding a Sledgehammer. 84 hp.
- 3. ~1200 caps : Woman wearing a metal armor, holding a sledgehammer. 95 hp.
- 4. ~1700 caps : Black person, wearing a metal armor and holding a sledgehammer. HE CAN'T RUN. 90 hp.
- 1. 3200 caps : Long-haired raider (Ian's skin)with a leather jacket, holding a 14mm pistol. 100 hp.
- 2. 4000 caps : Man wearing a leather jacket, holding a 10mm SMG. Can use rifles too. 110 hp.
- 3. 7000 caps : Woman wearing a leather jacket, holding an Assault Rifle. Can use rifles too. 115 hp.
- Big Guns :
- 1. 7000 caps : Man wearing a leather jacket and holding a Light Support Weapon . 120 hp.
- 2. 1000 caps : Woman wearing a leather jacket and holding a Minigun. 115 hp.
- 3. 8800 caps : Woman wearing a leather jacket and holding a Rocket Launcher. 115 hp.
- 1. 9000 caps : Man wearing a metal armor, holding a Laser Pistol. 97 hp.
- 2. 10 000 caps : Woman wearing a metal armor, and holding a Laser Rifle (Ext. Cap.). 129 hp.
Redding
Redding's merc recruiter sells exactly the same mercs as the NCR's and New Reno's one (See above). He is located opposite the Malamute Saloon (in main street).
New California Republic
NCR's merc recruiter sells exactly the same mercs as the Redding's and New Reno's one (See above). She is located in a white building, before the main city gate.
San Francisco
San Francisco's merc recruiter sells exactly the same mercs as the Redding's, NCR and New Reno's one (See above). He is located at the north of the middle place. Leaving the Shi's building, it's the second building on the right, with a small garden and a path to the door.
Broken Hills
The merc recruiter is located next to the bank. He sells some very useful mercs : Super Mutants. They are particularly slow, and ugly, but they are good though.
Gecko
Gecko's merc recruiter is located near the main entrance, in a building on the left. He will sell you ghouls mercs, and among them is the popular sniper ghoul.
- 1. ~500 caps : Generic ghoul holding a spear. 100 hp.
- 2. ~10 000 caps : Sniper ghoul, holding an Sniper Rifle. 60 hp.
Junktown
Junktown's merc seller is in front off Gizmo's casino, with his dogs around him.
Klamath
A children in Trapper Town (West) will sell you his dogs. Beware, you can buy some tougher and less expensive ones in Junktown (See above).
