
If player is lucky, then the mercenary company will rebel and declare an Invasion on the Kingdom title of the island county. Then squander all your money on construction/gifts and put your gold balance to red by raising all personal levies and ships. Hire the mercenary company and put its armies in the island county acquird in Step 1. It is absolutely essential to have an army capable of defeating the full force of the mercenary company intended to be incorporated into a country, as well as enough ships to carry it across water. If there aren't claimants available, consider assassinating the current title holder or wait a while. 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.
