always read the fine print.

[larsthedude]

“Mercenary company signs 1000 year contract to a king” kinda goes hard as a plot element NGL

[sluggo]

Cara is NOT beating the "cant do basic math" Allegations

[Significantpower]

I've read enough Battletech lore to know where this is going.

[ConnanTheCivilized]

Sounds like one of those sell-sword companies in Game Of Thrones with murderous bandits being loyal to thousand year old pacts!

[wolfgang]

Imagine getting drafted for Afghanistan because your varangian ancestor couldn't read old english

[toxicwaste]

I'm almost entirely certain that the "contract duration" actually just shows how long this offer has been available which usually corresponds to the war duration. The contract still ends once the war (can it be for multiple wars at once?) is over.

[molybdaen]

It's fine.
I have never seen a war going on for more then 20 years.

[atexandude]

Nah, I had something like this. I did several emissary contracts, almost all of them were in-country, some were neighbors. I was a French dude, eventually worked down into Croatia, get a contract, by this point I was like “Yeah sure, I’ll take the money, don’t care where we’re going.”
North India. Like the Nepal area, that’s where they’re sending me. Again, didn’t read, hit go, pathing appeared, I saw it, but my brain went faster than my eyes could relay the info, I hit full send, and off we went, from Croatia, to fuckin India, no desert prep, no mercenary guards. Nothing. “You can stop it”
Not going to lie dude I didn’t know this. Only recently found out I can tell the game to stop(without giving up the contract, cause ya dude still wanted the money) so we went, lost someone in the mountains, two dead from dehydration in the deserts which is fuckin miraculous, really. We’re pushing through Persian turf, and I get the “Contract ended” message. “Why the fuck..” he died. The guy I was taking to India was like 71, I didn’t even look, he just straight died in his sleep. Didn’t take the camp with us so, immediately get turned around, lose another dude in the desert, down to like 6 people, lose another to the exact same fuckin mountain range, walk walk walk, get back to Croatia, and I read every word of every contract since. Lesson hard learned.

[tututankamon]

"you should have read the fine print my friend"

[j.a.pelaez]

That's basically how mercenary companies became national armies

[SystemOverload]

I promise you, no drama will ever be so deep that you need to hire people to go to war for 1000 years.

[PhatGiraffe]

I feel like "Read the Fine Print" is the real cornerstone skill of Paradox games. It's like clickbait for all us neurodivergents

[lawnmowersaredope]

Your gonna fight that war in nearly every damn paradox map game

[astrangeperson]

Now this is a start to a mega campaign

[a_lethe_ion]

I hope the soldier at least is immortal

[смрш]

To be fair it's for this one specific war, so really this is just "you're employed till we either win this war or we all die trying"

[TJD]

I think they'd become the world's first special forces unit

[Caesar--]

I mean as long as you win or lose the war it wont matter, but bro has to go to Wales which is definitely the worst part

[mhwite]

Bro that happened to me yesterday as well

[DarthSidian]

1. It'd end in 2006.
2. I'd be a TODDLER by the time this contract finally ends. I would be ALIVE to see this thing end.