Custom Battles Updated with Mercenaries, heroes and new units! image - Warcraft: Total War mod for Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms
Warcraft Total War is a total conversion mod for Medieval II Total War. Our goal is to bring the Warcraft universe into a Total War game. This mod will feature epic battles with units from the Warcraft universe and a new campaign that will cover the events of the Third War and beyond.
The Trade Coalition, a coalition mainly led by the Goblins but which also consists of human bandits, ogres, hobgoblins and trolls.
In the older releases there were no mercs in the custom battles, but now they do have mercs.
Some of their units used to be mercenaries in the campaign for every single faction in version 2.3, a vesion released in 2022, and may have been mercs in older releases as well, these units included the Bandit Raiders (mounted), Bandits, the Pirate Musketeers and the Hired Trolls and Ogres.
The mercs were only available from regions where there were humans, ogres or trolls available. The bandits, bandit raiders and the pirate musketeers became very common for especially the human factions.
In the original plans all of the Trade coalition units were supposed to be unique to the Trade Coalition, so I removed these units as mercenaries for most factions, as it is possible to limit mercs based on religion.
All the humans share the light-religion, all the dwarves the titan-religion, the undead the undeath-religion etc, they share religion with their race, or others that are of a similar type - like the undead share, and the insects share - The Trade Coalition is sharing the Shaman-religion with the Horde and the Dark Horde, this means that any unit available to the Shaman-religion is available to all three of these factions.
And the Bandits, Hired Trolls and the Hired Ogres are now available to those factions, and the Trolls.
However, I disliked how the Trade Coalition only had basically Goblin troops in the old release, as the player hardly ever was in the regions with Trolls, Ogres or Humans, as such in the new 2.4 release they have easier access to all their units.
In custom battle they have mercs, such as the Elementals of Northrend.
They do also have the Goblin Rabble and the Goblin Bombard available to them as mercs, but also as regular troops - in the left screen I am showing off the main mercs available in custom for them.