Mercenaries and non-monetary payment

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Well another problem. Orges are chaotic evil. They won't fight if they feel cheated they feel cheated when asked to do something. They didn't get enough to eat and drink last night because they didn't get enough. They may attack you for suggesting they got enough.

Well then you would need to make sure you were feeding them enough, or were big and tough enough that you could get them into line.

Hobgoblins are lawful evil. They will fulfill the letter of the word. Kill the human in the blue armor if they find out the human is a half elf well. I fulfilled my contact you said human.They will not attack anything else unless attacked themselves in defense or not neccessary to get their target. Then they are free to leave the field. Until the next order is given after negotiations.

Well you probably wouldn't have a mercenary contract that had only one term in it, that would be really poor contracting and therefore would be a poor thing for somebody lawful to do.

You need fear and intimidation to over come some of these things. You need to be evil yourself in the end.

No, just smart, maybe big and intimidating, but fear and intimidation are not inherently evil.