N18 Cost for Equipping Free hired guns

[Xenosaurus55]

I'm planning on running Ironhead Squats with the new Halls of the Ancients book. I'm eyeing the ancestry power that allows me to hire free hive scum. I have some questions about how equipping them works. Do I pay for their weapons as If I was hiring regular hired guns? Or do they come with weapons from their list since their hiring fee is waived? I do feel like 60 free creds of weapons on unpaid for scum that I can add to any of my numbers might be a little unbalanced considering Ironheads already pack a pretty hefty punch. Tactics cards like "unwashed horde" give specific loadouts to the free units which makes sense to me, and might be ok with my arbiter.

Are there any official rulings on this in FAQ or anything? The 2023 rulebook doesn't have any word on this.

 

[Beebopalulla]

There is no limit on what they can spend to equip themselves unlike other circonstances where you can hire D3 scum. They vanish after the battle leaving with their equipment. Other that they are still limited by what they can carry and use. They have three weapons slots and two hands. The other ancestry that allows the recruitment of a free agent has the same issues.