What proportion mercs before it stops feeling like Cygnar?

[Icepick28]

20% to 50%

I design my Cygnar list first, think about what I need to make certain tactics more viable, look to see if anything in Cygnar fits, then look at the Merc list to see who is for hire. I play a Cygnar forward unit, so I can justify very strange figures in my army.

The Mercs exist to enhance my Cygnar game, not replace them. That's my philosophy, and it works for me on the board.

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[Griffin839]

0-30% I agree that mercs are made to enhance our game, but I do not agree with taking up to 50% of our army as mercs. I do not feel that is not enhancing our game, that is replacing it with something else. For me if I take any mercs, its support solos like reinholdt, rhupert, and eiyrss. And the only merc unit I own is Aiyana and Holt, but they play more like solos anyway.

[Dais]

It stops feeling like cygnar when I play Constance and realize I'm happier with highborn.
If a list with only cygnar caster & jacks works well then it feels fine. I will never understand this recent mercenary phobia; If you can hire a merc and he's the best man for the job then you owe it to yourself to take him and play your best.

[Garath]

Maybe 10 pts in 35? If I use them at all...I'm mostly playing all jack Kraye lists with the only unit being Rangers

[Ysthrall]

Dais, not so much phobia as disgust at their apparently required ubiquity. I don't mind mercs, I just don't like being told I have to use them, and I don't like them being considered easily better than any in faction infantry choices.

This thread was just to consider the subjective point at which a Cygnar list filling with mercs stops feeling like cygnar. Irrerespective of validity of any of the units/jacks/solos/warcasters involved.

Nice signature, btw.