Both of the Makarian special forces centers are VERY unique. One of them has built-in siege towers (or, I guess, they are skilled with grappling hooks and ropes, whatever), and the other is actually a cavalry unit.
They're also very expensive to have, but with the way the gold production of the game has been cranked up over the past 5 years, a lot more possible to use than before.
I had no idea about that. The Barony's history is not well documented even in the Wiki. Until Eirikr's Character came back we only had two/three people from the old days and they were not that talkative. We lost most of the old characters when the cleanup script was fixed.
Yeah, 130-odd gold for 10 but they are so worth it