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this Topic was brough up sometime ago and I was thinking, how would a mercenary Codex look like. would they function as stand-alone army, who would lead them? and how to allie them to other units?
so here's what I thought:
1.no Alien Mercs for Marines and Sisters. (for Necrons and 'Nids I suppose you could find an explanation. something like mind-control bugs or C'Tan telepathy)
2.Human Mercenaries with a few more uncommon weapon options like xeno-weapons. the profile should be the same like guardsmen.
3.possible Alien Mercs could be:
Kroot (of course)
Hrud, there was a picture in the 3rd edition rulebook, which looked kinda nice
Eldar Pirates
O'Shovah mercenarie Tau

that's all I want to type right now. how about you guys, any ideas?

Both Orks and Ogryns would work as mercenaries

yeah, I thought about Ogryns too. many people in the empire are not so fond of them since they are (more or less) mutants, so they would probably better of a mercs.