Couple questions

Since I'm a tech person can I have a magic follower? I thought I heard somewhere that having a mage and a gunslinger together causes many critical failures on both parts

O and I'm about to hit 7 CP and I'm going to spend them into a technological discapal and I'm wondering which one is best? Right now the top ones look like Electrical, Explosives (I don't got a lockpicker :lol: ), Gun Smithy, and Mechanical (those atomatons and mechanical spiders look pretty damn cool)

 

Sorry can't help you about followers yet, haven't figured this one out myself.
As for what disciplines to research it depends on what you chose to be. If you're a melee fighter you need smithy, if you prefer firearms you should learn to make ones. Explosives gives you grenades(Molotov is a great secondary weapon, easy to get and effective , explosive grenades are good, but I mostly make them for sale, 795 for each with just one haggle point) and fire obstraction for a flamethrower. Gunsmithy+electricity+charges from chemistry=tesla gun. Smithy+engineering=arachnid, though I don't think they're better then highly trained followers(or can you have them without taking places of followers?). I have researched gunsmithy till the end, spent 4 points on explosives(for grenades), 2 on electricity (rings) and thinking if I should learn it till the end or spend the rest of CP on dexterity and strength.

 

In the unpatched game, I am told, Jormund is NOT free. I prefer to think of the free followers as easter eggs. And what does the "NW" mean? No way?

No problem. I have several strong mages with tech followers, & vice versa. Throwing mages can use grenades to good efect. I guess that by the time they are suposed to blow, they are far enough away from you to work.