My understanding is that you can hire a model with the mercenary rule(if for example its in your own faction or you can hire it bacause of another rule) and you can hire a model as a mercenary and this is two diferent things, is this correct?
An example would be, Zoraida, her Enthrall ability lets her hire any model with WP 4 or less regardless of faction. This can be a Desperate Mercenary for example, can she still hire two mercenarys thrue the Mercenary rule?
Is this list legal?
Zoraida
Convict gunslinger (hired as a mercenary, is a Mercenary)
Desperate mercenary (hired thrue Enthrall, but is a Mercenary)
Killjoy (hired as a mercenary, is a Mercenary)
the crew-creator at malifaux.com does not seem to allow this, but i dunno how good it is, this seems legal to me.