On Weresloth's post on the rules thread:

Ammendment 4/16/10

The number of mercs cannot exceed the number of players in the alliance by which they are employed. For Player v. Alliance wars this means the player is allowed one merc.

Torgard wrote:
The cap on the number of mercs hinges on the number of players on either side. Therefore both sides would have the same cap.

Such as if an individual wages war, then both sides would be elligible to hire 1 mercenary.

If you have 2 alliances, then the number of mercenaries would be the lowest number of players on either side:
Alliance A has 7 players and Alliance B has 3 players - hence each alliance would be eligible to hire 3 mercenaries.

I don't believe he would have included that tidbit if he didn't want that to be applied to the rules...

Yes, and pardon that other post. I guess I am just ignorant sometimes. But, then again, everyone has some of those days.

Let's get back to this war, shall we?

this is boring....they are all turtles, atler took liek 3k of the 30k ships jer has, and rest are idk, but it too boring, i quit , f all this........good fighting yall, but yall too boring, laterz

So I guess this war is over...

Better luck next time Krieg