Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-184.147.63.23-20190822014333/@comment-130.225.247.34-20190822150250

It absolutely isn't, unless you REALLY care about Carina's men for some reason. The thing is, you want to start snowballing as hard and fast as possible with your investments. And as you say, mercs are actually a NEGATIVE investment. You put money, even in the Iron Cudgel and you are doomed to miss out on more than one of the large chapter 4 investments and more before that.

It is for the same reason that i am a horrible person who whores out Qum