Mercenaries question

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lch said:
Look in your manual about turn resolution sequence. Learn that list by heart. IIRC Mercenaries is at the very end of it, which means that if you lose control of the province, the mercenaries won't pop up.

RTFM is a popular answer, but not the one I was looking for. And BTW I am not sure you are correct, IIRC I've read in manual that if you lose control of the province merces you were planning to hire there will take your money and join your enemy. Granted I never seen it happened myself, but than again I never hire merces to the province that I am in danger of losing.

But in any case, my question was about castled province - the situation where the ownership of the province is contested. (Enemy controls most of the province, but you still hold the castle)

Does anybody know for sure what would happen in such situation?