private armies?

[MacSuibhne]

So...unless I am reading the UESP wiki wrong it looks like you can hire a mercenary at the same time you have a follower.

 

Is that correct?

 

Is there any limit to how many hirelings you can have?

 

Is there any downside? Do the quests spawn extra adversaries or more powerful ones if you have, say, a follower, two mercenaries and a dog with you when you enter a cave or fort, etc.?

[Anunnak]

I think all spawns stay the same, as should the levels of the enemies spawned. I could be wrong, maybe the game takes it into consideration when you're solo or with a group.

 

As for limits... if you're on the PC... there's UFO and other mods that allow you to have more than the stock number of followers.

[MacSuibhne]

I think all spawns stay the same, as should the levels of the enemies spawned. I could be wrong, maybe the game takes it into consideration when you're solo or with a group.

 

As for limits... if you're on the PC... there's UFO and other mods that allow you to have more than the stock number of followers.

 

 

Thank you for the response.

 

Am I correct that you can have one follower and one hireling? Or is a hireling considered a follower?

 

Tioraidh

Edited April 22, 2012 by MacSuibne

[Anunnak]

Only one humanoid follower and a dog AFAIK. Maybe if you hold on to a temporary follower you can have 2.

[Rooker75]

You can have 1 humanoid, 1 dog, 1 horse*, 2 conjurations/thralls. You can also gather a number of temporary followers at once, like Mercer Frey, Delphine, Esbern and some others and just never complete the quests that would dismiss them from your group.

 

*You can have multiple horses, but only the last one you dismounted will follow you through fast travels