[GZG] "Realistic" Mercenary TO&E

["Eli Arndt" <emu2020@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Some recent comments made in a reply to the new 15mm Vehicle announcement have got me to thinking, “What is a –realistic- way to do sci-fi mercs”  The usual tendency seems to be to try to recreate one of the great merc units from books and other games – Hammer’s Slammers, Wolf’s Dragoons, etc.  But are these units representative of what we think merc units would be?  Is there a way to build less amazing, but still effective mercenary units?  Is so, what are people’s thoughts on them?

 

Some ideas I have had are –

 

1) An all infantry force with no armor but a good number of man-portable anti-tank weapons.

 

2) Conventional mobile infantry force with mid-tech resources.

 

3) Small, but elite and hi-tech unit of combat walkers.

 

These are just off the top of my head.

 

Thanks,

 

Eli

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