a new take on an old idea!
once, I suggested the idea of a mercenary camp where you could buy a small army at once. back then, I wanted to populate the camp with mages, archers, and warriors at the same time, but it turned out to be inefficient because there were problems with replenishing losses (you had to wait for your favorite units), and as a result, the mod failed even at the testing stage.
now, only Black Guards are sold in the mercenary camp, so you can replenish your squad every week (if you have enough money).
the unit replaces the non-working Yeti, so you can play without NCF, but if you play with NHF (at least with the old versions), the guards will replace the pirates, and there's nothing you can do about it.
the guard itself is taken from this mod
when creating this mod, resources from the games M&MH7, M&MH6, and Dark Messiah of Might&Magic were used.
the authors of these resources are members of the development team of the aforementioned games; unfortunately, I cannot name the exact names.
in no way am I trying to claim someone else's work, and I sincerely hope
that using these resources in this way will not offend any of their creators.
rather, on the contrary, this can be seen as a form of recognition;
fans of the series really like the characters you created, and they want to see them in another game in the series.
resources from the games M&MH7, M&MH6, and Dark Messiah were ported for HoM&M5 by me - Zahar0z
the visual effects in the mod were made by Frozensoul