My least 5 favourite Mercs are as follows:

5 - Shank as his stats are so bad at the start and although he can improve, it takes too long to do so and I'd rather use his place in the team for someone who can be useful right away.

4 - Bubba is just far too stupid and annoying

3 - Dimitri because he constantly forgets his movementy orders [does he have early onset Alzheimers or something? :whoknows] and for someone who is supposed to be great at throwing, I have yet to be impressed. I only keep him because he is free and can fix things, alebiet slowly and is a reasonably good shot. He's a R.E.M.F.O as far as I am concerned :headscratch:

2 - Gasket because he can't do any medicine on himself and there are far better mechanics who are much better fighters than him such as Maddog :exactly:

1 - Finally my least favourite Merc is Gumpy as his attitude stinks, he's too lazy [sleeps too long] he's pretty useless at the start & although he can improve, I wouldn't waste my time on him nor any money. His dialogue is so so, not that amusing for my taste. Sometimes I hire him and take him out on the front line. I like to try to see if he can achieve a spectacular death in battle :roulette:

It seems that a lot of people hate Biff & Flo but like as Hairysteed has pointed out, they are handy early in the game for militia training and they're cheap even if they are outright cowards in battle. I also get Haywire & Razor as those guys are hiliarious together and can become halfway decent mercs'. As soon as I have liberated the 3rd city/mine, I get rid of the MERC crew unless Haywire & Razor have survived to Lv 4 due to fighting etc [I use them as front line troopers] then I keep them around as they've earned it

My top 5 guys are as follows:
Grunty, Igor & Wolf at the start because these guys are just good value - Wolf as night ops & teaching, Grunty as night ops and heavy weapons and Igor with stealth & very good stats. These guys just become killing machines by the end of the game. A team material!
I hire Ivan & Trevor once I've got enough money to pay them for 2 week instalments which is about 1/2 way thru the game,.
Ivan is just the Russian version of the terminator and only gets meaner as he improves :axe:
I quite like Trevor as he is a dam good mechanic, excellent with things that go BANG! plus he can fight quite well and, above all, he has some of the funniest lines IMO in the game. When I first heard him talk about his wounds [moaning about drowning in blood & piss :wrysmiley] I dam nearly fell off my chair laughing :biglaugh: Even though he is expensive, I think he's good value and I take him most games.

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