RE: Back on subject - Mercs

Eli Arndt [SMTP:eli_arndt@wattosjunkyard.com] wrote:
> Who's responsible for transport.  Tanks, guns, missiles, even planes 
> cost a lot but interstellar travel?  Could any one body of Mercs 
> afford their own transport?
> Eli

It would depend on how cashed up the Mercenaries are.  Small company
level
units would require transport from their sponser while larger or better
paid
units could arrange their own transport.
One very valid point from my Battletech days was the unreliability of
interstellar transport if you couldn't supply your own.  
Not having facilities for hot extraction from combat would result in a
massacre at worst or changing employers at best.

Here's an example of an self-supporting merc unit I posted a couple of
years
ago:

Scalliwag's Mercenary Company
Sky Marshall E. A. Scalliwag commanding.

Excaliber BDN "Colliwobbles"
Majestic BC "Viper"
2 Kronzprinz Wilhelm CL "Rainman" & "Icestorm"
5 Ibiza FF "Alpha", "Beta", "Gamma", "Epsilon" & "Eta"
4 Assault Transports "Rust", "Paint", "Rock" & "Roll"

4 ZAD (size 4 GEV, Superior ZAD)
12 MBT (size 3 GEV, twin turret class 3 railguns)
12 heavy artillery vehicles (size 4 GEV, HAR, basic PDS)
21 scout cars (size 1 GEV, GMS/L)
18 APCs (size 2 GEV, Twin turret APSW, 8 troop spaces)
178 vehicle crewmen
144 infantry (d8 armour, advanced rifle w/- GL (FP:3, I:d10)

This full unit would probably hire out for about 29 MCr per month +
replacement clauses on the ships (about 50% new value).

Brendan
'Neath Southern Skies