On day 19 of my company, everything had been going swimmingly. Our "marksman" shot out heavy axeman in the back of the head on the first fight, but we don't talk about that and aside from that all the original companions are still alive. We mostly made our living kicking ghouls out of graveyards, unpleasant but fairly easy work. Then I decided to take on a graveyard full of skeletons and "fallen heroes". This turned out to be a massively bad idea, half my mercs were cut down in either the initial engagement or the retreat. Almost my entire frontline died. All of the remaining companions survived, but only because our pikeman semi-intentionally sacrificed himself using repel so a badly wounded spearman could escape. We weren't even getting paid to do this, I guess on the plus side no one knew of our failure.
Anyway, long story short we left a lot of valuable weapons and experienced mercs behind on that battlefield. But I still had a chunk of cash saved up, so I hired a bunch of tavern brawlers, fisherman, and peasants on the cheap and armed them with my old weapons that were too low quality to sell for much. Basically paid no money at all equipping them. We went out to clear out yet an other graveyard and it was actually grave robbers for once? They had superior weapons but we had numbers and started on a hill. We pelted them with bolts, arrows, javelins and throwing nets as they approached piecemeal and then cut them down one and two at a time. The only casualty was a tavern brawler to a frankly foolish error on my part. Anyway, after turning in that contract for a little over a thousand crowns I took a patrol mission with a decent advance payment, and now I've got two thousand crowns, some military grade weapons I took from the grave robbers, and some (very unskilled) new blood. Time to rebuild the company I guess.