Mercenaries, Incorporated
| Mercenaries, Incorporated | |
| Founder(s) | Azz Kikr and Rockman |
| Founded | Initially in 1999, Re-founded May 31, 2011 |
| Focus | Netgaining while war-ready |
| President(s) | Azz Kikr |
| Vice President(s) | Rockman |
| IRC Network/Channel(s) | irc.earthempires.com #mercs |
| Website | Mercenaries, Inc. |
Earth Empires FFA Alliance from the Earth 2025 days, re-established in Earth Empires for reset 9.
Founding leaders of Earth Empires version of The Mercenaries, Incorporated are Azz Kikr and Rockman. The founding members are ZDH, Enshula, Newworld, CX.
Azz Kikr and Enshula were both leaders in the Earth 2025 incarnation of Mercenaries, Incorporated.
History
9th round of FFA
Mercenaries, Incorporated's first set on FFA was round 9 of FFA. They pacted almost everyone on the server, and engaged in self-landtrading at levels never seen before on FFA, reaching 56k average land by the time they stopped grabbing to stockpile, despite 1/4th of their countries being all-explore. With 72 hours left in the set, CC declared war on Rockman and killed 12 of Rockman's 16 countries. Despite this setback, Mercs still obliterated the previous anw record, setting a new record of 185 million, 62 million more than the old record, breaking the old record by more than 50%. The 32 all-explore countries in Mercs combined for 103.5 million average networth, and the 54 surviving landtrading countries combined for 235.4 million average networth.
Newworld set a record by getting all 16 of his countries over 250 million networth - all 16 finished in the top 50. Enshula had 9 countries in the top 100, including 2 in the top 10. Azz Kikr had 7 countries in the top 100. Rockman had 6 countries in the top 100 including 2 dead countries, and 1 live country in the top 10, FAd out of CC's range. ZDH had 4 countries in the top 100. CX ran 16 all-explore countries, all 16 finishing over 100 million networth.
10th round of FFA
Mercenaries, Incorporated jointly FSd CC on August 13th alongside Salt. Salt and Mercs both started off with 96 countries. CC started off with 179 countries and tagged up 16 more originals about 32 hours into the war. Mr Ford detagged and deleted his 10 remaining countries at about the same time. About 66 hours into the war, the 32 country tag PoD jumped in with a paltry AB FS on Mercs, while CC focused most of their attention on Salt - partly due to the difficulty in breaking Mercs countries, and partly due to their greater hatred for Salt than for Mercs. About 30 hours into the war, before Mr Ford's detagging and the addition of 16 ~1m networth untaggeds to CC, Mercs passed CC in TNW.
About 6 days after the war started, the two sides agreed to ceasefire. At the end of the war, CC had 82 kills, 62 on Salt and 20 on Mercs, including 1 kill of a restart. PoD had 8 kills on Mercs, all but 2 on restarts. Salt had 74 kills, and Mercs had 73 kills. Ending networths of the alliances were 178 million for Mercs, 106 million for CC, 74 million for Salt, and 21 million for PoD.
Mercs achieved their goal of paying CC back for Mr Ford's war declaration on Rockman the previous set, and illustrating both their willingness to war and their ability to war. While CC's inactivity due to a leadership void was a major contributing factor to the quick ceasefire, the economic power of Mercs' war countries, and the excellent target selection & FS by Mercs and Salt were also major contributing factors for the decisive victory won by Mercs and Salt.
Mercs' plans for the rest of the set are still being formulated.
