Sorry for the stupid question, but do mercenaries (except captains) respawn if some of them die on service?

Mate I've stumbled onto your other mods by coincidence after looking at who made Wandering Rival. Some of these are absolutely keen. I think this and many others are great examples of cool things you can do with pure vanilla and not adding loads of mess.

Excited to try this out

Will captains be on their own or do they have generic soldiers with them as well?

Alright. I consider this one to be kind of an early learning project - the dialogue has some issues on timing and there's an issue with the unique dialogue moving to the new leader once the captain is recruited.

Also, the premise is kind of strange now that I look back on it. Yes, it kind of makes sense, but factions already have a bodyguard system in place, it's just not as deep as the one's I've created here.

Really enjoy your mods. They make the game deeper. I'm going to translate this one and couple of others into Russian.

Hmm. You have a point. Perhaps I can rename it - repackage it. Unlockable faction bodyguards? lol... this is an older mod of mine I still use... maybe I should remake/improve it.

I'm noticing now that in vanilla, once you reach a certain relation, that's it. Nothing else happens. But maybe - there should be rewards. I'll think on this more. I have some ideas to make the pot sweeter. Right now relations 75 unlocks all features of the bodyguards. Maybe 100 would be better, with a single free service.

Also with this mod, there are flaws. Like - when you recruit the unique captain, the new leader of that bodyguard squad takes all the unique dialogue. It's a bit of a pain, but I don't remember "is character" working for NPC dialogue.

The sole purpose of a Mercenary is to NOT belong to any faction.
A Mercenary in a Faction is the definition of a soldier.
Mercenaries are never bound to one faction and work for anyone as long as it pays good.
So this mod makes no sense.