I saw the first battle against HRE, Mercs showed good tactic and good battle move, they were well disciplined, and used perfectly the terrain to their advantage, attackers spawn was so far away that it was impossible to keep a constant front line, and Mercs pushed back every charging waves.
For a long time, HRE was trapped at the bottom of the hill, they couldn't do anything except lose tickets, only things attackers did for long time was flanking with fallen archer squad.
I guess HRE was not that bad because it was realy hard to do anything in this village, with another faction than Mercs they could have win easily, but Mercs gave them real hard time.
HRE tried a flank attack, Mercs jumped on occasion to attack their spawn, it was almost done, HRE got some luck and take back their spawn.
A good battle from both sides, HRE lost a ton of tickets and Mercs keeped their honor on battle field.
You can always flame/drama Mercs on forum because they are arrogant but on the battlefield they make the difference.
edit :
Afaik you attacked us first without a warning
Sure they should warned you... c'mon, they showed you that they are smarter that's all...
Mercs are still fuckin' awesome on battlefield, but they lack of tactic on the strat map, i'm sure it's because French founders are no longer part of the clan (chauvinism!)