This part is usually easy as claimants of the same religion group are not particularly resistant to being invited. In order to subjugate a landed mercenary company, it is important to have a courtier with a strong claim on the mercenary title. Good locations to use are: Gotland, Shetland, Canary Islands, The Balares, Iceland, Sardinia, Corsica, Crete, and Cyprus. This way, the player would only lose one county and the mercenary army would be largely isolated from the outside world. There are two immediate concerns for this: (1) They use an invasion CB which gives them an entire kingdom and (2) interference by strong vassals can easily prevent the turncoat mercenaries from winning.Ī solution to this problem would be to conquer a county on an island belonging to a kingdom in which the player has no other land in. hiring them and dropping to a negative gold balance).
In order for them to be landed, they must be baited into attacking the player (i.e. Mercenaries must be landed before they can be declared war on. 5 Step 5: Wait for Loss or Win Completely.
