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Hirelings!

Each of these characters is Guaranteed™ to have a level 3 or 4 Educational Trait.
Each one will have either: Strong, Quick, Genius - or a small chance of Strong Genius or Quick Genius.
Each one will have either 5, 8, or 10 to all Abilities. This is subject to change per balance needs.
Each one is set to your Friend.
Each one will have no dynasty.
Each one will have random generated traits. I filtered out some terrible traits such as Ambitious.
I did not remove all bad traits, because I would like some balance where possible.

Hire Female: She will make a wonderful wife. She is 17 years old.
Hire Son: Summon your brand new 5 year old son.
Hire Daughter: Summon your brand new 5 year old daughter.

These decisions are hidden inside of a submenu in the intrigue screen
to prevent these options from cluttering up your screen.

Hirelings! is all about getting the people YOU want and when.
It is also about getting ONLY courtiers who are useful. Never again hire some mystery guy who shows up as a craven homosexual dwarf with niave appeaser and highest ability is 3.

Balancing is NOT a ultimate goal of this mod, FUN is. That said, I prefer to keep things as balanced as possible and I do pay attention to user feedback. Some options might change as needed. I have already done a rebalancing and removed the OP Hirelings, which have been moved to my Cheats! mod.

I warn against hiring 200 courtiers. Time ruins them! Courtiers start with one set of traits, then events + time passing causes that to get messed up. In 2 years, the awesome spymaster you hired is a craven homosexual and your strong genius wife becomes celibate. Then gains chaste.

Then, those courtiers plot against you.

So, for the most FUN, I suggest marrying out bad courtiers (matrilenial for males), and keeping a court of about 12 people. You want the traits of these people to "match" those of yourself, and you want them to match your heir when succession comes. Too often, people don't understand why their whole court hates their new heir; now you know.


If you have any balance suggestions, please make them so that I
can try to ensure balance where I can while keeping it fun.

You might find a bug, or a mod this is not compatible with.
If so, use Steam Forum to report errors.

You may use this mod as a base for your own work!
Pay attention to file structure, ask questions if you need.
Don't forget to credit me. This mod was made (as with my others
on Workshop) to teach me how to mod. I am continuing to learn.

Here are some good places to help you learn modding.
Look at modifiers and how they are used.

http://www.ckiiwiki.com/Building_modding
http://www.ckiiwiki.com/Modifiers
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?585658-Cheats/page66
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?682-Crusader-Kings-II-User-Modifications