RE: Boone's Company

A couple of questions:
1. Who or where is the FDC (Fire Direction Control) in the Weapons
Platoon?
2. I assume that Sales/Marketing/Procurement are handled through a
broker.
3. I would assume a larger logistics tail/redundancy within the platoons
due to 
the semi-independent nature of a Merc unit.

Michael Brown

-----Original Message-----
From:	John Atkinson
Sent:	Wednesday, April 03, 2002 8:23 PM
To:	Tom Barclay; Adrian Johnson
Cc:	GZG-List
Subject:	Boone's Company

Copied to the list just for the heck of it.  Time for
some on-topic Stargrunt stuff.

Boone's Company is completely typical of mercenary
units.	It's small, with no heavy equipment or armored
vehicles.  It is not particularly elite, but also not
bad at what they do either.  Recruits indiscrimately
from combat veterans of a variety of national armies
and colonial forces.  Major Boone formed it after
being RFTed from a NAC light infantry unit.

HQ Section:
  HQ: CO, XO, 1SG, Operations NCO, 3 drivers, company
clerk, Supply Sergeant, Armorer.  3 Jeeps, 2 light
trucks (1 outfitted as TOC and driven by clerk, other
used by supply sergeant and armorer)
  Maintinence Section: 6 mechanics, 1 clerk. 1 contact
truck, 1 shop truck, 1 parts truck

Weapons Platoon
   HQ: PL, PSG, Medic, EW, 2xDriver, 2xJeeps
   Machine Gun Section: 8x.50 cal armed jeeps, each
with 3 man crew.
   Mortar Section: 4xMortar teams (4 men ea), Section
Leader, Driver, 5xJeeps
   Recon Team: Section leader, 4xSnipers, 4xSpotters
4xRifle Platoons
   HQ Section: PL, PSG, Medic, EW
   Weapons Squad: Section Leader, 3xSAW Gunners
   3xRifle Squads: SL, 2xTL, PPG, SAW, 4xRiflemen
Antitank Platoon
   HQ Section: PL, PSG, Medic, EW, 2xDrivers,
2xGunners, 2xAGL-armed Jeeps
   4xAT Sections: 2xAT Jeeps, 3-man crew each

Usual mission configuration is with a sniper team, AT
section, and 2x.50 cal armed jeeps attached to each
platoon.  Remaining assets are under the company
commander's control, including the mortars.  All
troops notionally carry an automatic rifle, or a
pistol and a support weapon.  In practice, a mix of
SMGs, shotgns, and pistols are carried by vehicle
crewmen and senior leadership instead of rifles.  Any
of the platoons may be motorized with locally acquired
assets, either officially or unofficially.

Jeep: Size 1, CFE, Armor 0, HiMob Wheels.  All Jeeps
except .50 cal Jeeps carry SAWs.  AT Jeeps carry a
GMS/H launcher, or may be equipped with AGLs if there
is no armor threat.

Automatic Rifle:  Enfield Liquid Propellant Assault
Rifle LP3A1, 7.5mm assault rifle with integral 20mm
grenade launcher.  FP 3 Imp d10

SAW: Enfield Liquid Propellant Light Machine Gun,
3-barrel rotary SAW.  FP d10 Imp d10.

PPG: Boone recently acquired a new shipment of the
standard-issue NSL PPG and has adopted them.

The Heavy Machine Gun is the M-2A7E2 .50 caliber HMG.
Constructed of composites and firing sabot ammunition,
this is considerably lighter than it's venerable
predecessor and includes a muzzle brake to compensate.
 FP d10, Impact d12*.  Range bands are 12".  Takes up
2 construction slots.  Swapping the integral "free"
SAW for an HMG costs 1 construction slot.

Automatic Grenade Launcher: 40mm HV Grenade Launcher.
FP d12, Imp d10*

Antitank Missle: Guidance d8

IAVR: FP d10 Imp d12* Armbrust V.  Evolutionary
development of one of the first soft-launch LAWs.

Armor:	All infantrymen wear a soft torso armor with
small ceramic plates built in.	d6

John

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