Paying mercenaries to switch sides thats just, just, utterly how the games meant to be fucking played, what a mercenary is and so normal that in history or fiction its a cliche.
What a truly stupid thing to rant about.
It's not common practice, bitchbaby... furthermore my bone to pick with HoC was not that they paid mercenaries to play for them it was that they specifically paid mercenaries NOT to play for me, in just the few hours before my battle, in an attempt to sabotage my roster. I understand trying to enhance your own roster, that is for the best fun of everyone when two teams try to enhance their roster to create a good fight... but trying to sabotage the other teams roster is a piece of shit cuntmuffin move. They are entirely different principles, pussiboi.
EDIT: The thing I hate about this community is when nerds who do nothing on Strategus (such as your entitled self) come along and dictate to everyone the eternal truth of how things should be (what they self-righteously think is right)... all the while never actually contributing a fraction of the shit to Strategus that the person they are chastising is.
SUPER EDIT: I'm also venturing to guess the great majority of you have bad hairstyles and smell bad.