User blog comment:Subject 16*/Assassin's Creed: Revelations - News/@comment-3984784-20110513023933/@comment-3282650-20110513034235

I never hired Mercenaries for help. I'd hire them to fight as many guards as possible and see how long they would last for when I was bored. Hiring them and actually fighting with them is boring, because its easy enough to eleminate the guards yourself, you don't need four of them getting in your way.