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Re: "Cheapest Losers" Mercs Hall of Fame - your candidates please[message #257501] Sun, 25 July 2010 23:03 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
FelixDrake is currently offline FelixDrake

 
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I avoid Flo religiously, and 'marry' the hicks to my friend P90.
Why avoid flo? She reacts VERY badly to ANYONE fleeing combat within a very large radius of her. As such, she hobbles my team more than she helps it.

A word on Razor:Since his physicals are incredibly high, and he has psycho to help patch up the marksmanship issue, and since marksmanship goes up pretty fast with an accurate enough gun with fixins.. I find Razor to be one of the better inexpensive mercs (along with barry "bomb guy" unger + MUCH repair practice, grunty, and Igor).

On the other hand,

Haywire... I find fairly irredeemable other than as a mule who can die to bloodcats without one caring (and his quotes)

Biff ... generally substandard, perfect for a reject crew.

Gumpy ... a regular. Cheap, able to recruit militia, learns leadership pretty fast due to wisdom through the roof.

So from MERC, Haywire, Biff, flo if you can stand her.
Other honorable mentions from AIM:Bull, maybe MD, Grizzly, Steroid
MD is a passable doctor, and learns fast.
I have tried, oh how I have tried, to make him a serviceable merc, but his stats are just too low to get those max APs up, so the best he tends to get to (without COMPLETELY excessive stat spamming, which can max out anyone) is a low grade sniper with the same medical skill that half a dozen much more functional 'doctors without marksmanship' can muster in their sleep.

Barry... if you use him on a squad and repair with him almost constantly while not fighting ... by end game outshines Colby.
As for Igor (the other cheap AIM merc I didn't select for drek), cheap, good physicals (for a row 1 merc), Stealth, and oh ya, Night Ops, now?

Hamous ... is passable from the start, but is, in classic reject style, allergic to excellence.
The guys from Tixa prison iirc are unimpressive, and thus on the list.

Gumpy and Gasket, while they can be used to GREAT effect as support, as front line mercs, make the reject list.

Maybe maddog as your lockpicker (though he's also serviceable in a razor kinda way)

One of the things I like about JA2 is the selection of mercenaries that you can really use...

... though now that Igor has the coveted stealth + Night ops, spider and her low stats have become a lot less useful... though... night ops is night ops.

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