[GZG] Mercenary units

> 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?

In the Slammers books there is inference made to TO&E's differing
between 
mercenary units,as well as unit quality varying between them.Planets
tended 
to hire mercenary units based on what they could afford,and you got what
you 
paid for.

I have used differing TO&E's/unit quality in my solo DS2 games as I
think 
this would be a function of what that unit/unit's leader could afford to
get 
as well.Plus it is interesting to see what certain types of units
will/can 
do based on their makeup.I tend to use a good bit of infantry so have
used 
low-tech infantry merc units w/good bit of support weapons in various 
situations.Can be quite fun as well as challenging.

MD
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