RE: [GZG] "Realistic" Mercenary TO&E

Which then gets back to Mercs don't do stand up fights.  It is not cost
effective to take serious losses, better to push around the farmers and
militia then the "Big Boys".

(in SG DS terms) Mercs are Blue or Orange and only are willing to
contract
against yellow and green.

 
 
 
Michael Brown
mwsaber6@msn.com


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[mailto:gzg-l-bounces@lists.csua.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Charles Lee
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:04 PM
To: gzg-l@lists.csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [GZG] "Realistic" Mercenary TO&E

Actually a Sci Fi merc unit of basic , mid line force
would be mechanized infantry with good anti-armor gear
covered by 2nd rate light armored units and 2nd rated
air assets. Most would be better than basic troops due
to the fact merc units don't hire newbies much. They
want skills proven and battle capible troops.

--- Eli Arndt <emu2020@comcast.net> wrote:

> 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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