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I recently played a game against Blaze which was super-merc heavy (4-5 solos, two units) that also included a Mule.

I was under the impression you could not take merc jacks for non-merc casters, or is this a particular rule she has?

Edit:
In fact, he was running it marshalled by the Gunmage solo for filthy Snipe shenanigans.

Ok, generally a warcaster is restricted to faction jacks. But say you have a Cygnarian caster like one of the nemo's you can bring in a mercenary jack marshal. These guys can only marshal jacks from their own faction so they'll be in control of mules, freebooters and such.

Then you have the mercenary contract the highborn covenant. This contract allows you to take one unit of gun mages or one unit of long gunners with which ever one you take counting as a mercenary unit for spells and feats. Now the gun mages are allow their UA who is a jack marshal and because he's now a mercenary jack marshal he can take the mercenary warjacks.

The final part of this is the ally rule. Precurser Knights, Kayazy Assassins, etc. have this rule. Normally they are Cygnar, Khador, whatever but when a contract allows it they can be taken in a mercenary army and also become part of the mercenary faction. The really special case with this is the warcaster Constance Blaize. She is an ally warcaster so normally she is cygnarian but she can also be used as the warcaster for a highborn covenant army. And like the other allies, when this happens she becomes a mercenary warcaster and can take mercenary gun mages.

There are also a couple of theme lists that allow you to take mercenary warjacks under the control of a faction warcaster, These are the Ships in the Night (Skarre1) and the Hunting Wolves (Zerkova) No Quarter theme lists.

He also had Rocinante controlled by Blaze.

As she's a merc in this case, does that mean all units are subject to her feat?

Dribble Joy wrote:He also had Rocinante controlled by Blaze.

As she's a merc in this case, does that mean all units are subject to her feat?

Yes.

So you can use Merc jacks if you add a Merc Jack marshal into your list? Unless of course there is some special rule that lets your faction's warcaster use them.

Do I have that right?

Rukus wrote:So you can use Merc jacks if you add a Merc Jack marshal into your list? Unless of course there is some special rule that lets your faction's warcaster use them.

Do I have that right?

A Merc 'jack marshal can only marshal merc 'jacks, a cygnar marshall can only marshal cygnar 'jacks. Dirty Meg is a merc 'jack marshal, if you take her in a cygnar list she can only marshal merc 'jacks, if she dies only a merc 'jack marshal can take control of the merc 'jack she had.

Nothing changes this rule in the game that I know of, the only way to "mix" marshall/jack faction restrictions is to change which faction the marshall or jack belongs to. In a Highborn list Arcane Tempest Gun Mages are made merc units as per the rules of that contract and thus can only marshall merc jacks.

Constance Blaze is an ally Cygnar caster. You can use her as a Merc or a Cygnar caster. You can take her as either one but not as both.