Hireling advantages and disadvantages in combat.

[by_dome]

When a Classed or Raced Hireling is play, the card says something between the lines of "you can equip him with a 'only usable by *'. All of his bonuses and abilities count for you."

Well, I don't think an item (weapon) has an ability other than smash heads and throw some hits/avoid some others, for me weapons count as bonuses, not like abilities, so I move on to the matter of my main question regarding this guys.

If I have a companion Hireling of certain race or class, let's say a halfling, a monster with + bonuses against halfling/gnome (saying I'm a gnome), gets a +10 against us in this particular battle. So, we get some disadvantage of any monster because he's got a particular race, but if the monster has some -bonuses with some class or race, do we get'em??

We've been discussing this, as, How is it possible to have all of the disadvantages of having a hireling of this nature, but not any of his abilities other than carry specific weapons???

The owner of the set of cards claims to be like that, monsters get bonus, if a Vampire Wannabe is around and your hireling is a Cleric, you don't get the advantage of scaring him away.

Some clarification will be really helpful.

Thanks in advance.