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

This is cool John. Nice and neat with no delusions of grandure. What sort of
missions do they usually undertake? I am still trying to hack together a
reasonable outline for my PA mercs.

Eli

> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 20:22:30 -0800 (PST)

NICE JOB!

BOONE'S COMPANY is a nice  example of what i would call a work-a-day
merc unit. nothing "wonderfuL"

training cadre, internal security, physical security, light infantry
ops, peacekeeper,  these all seem like reasonable   contracts for such a
unit.

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

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> --- Michael Brown <mwbrown@sonic.net> wrote:

For the Mortars? The Section leader handles that with
a high-speed semi-sentient AI mounted in the back of
his jeep. Cheating, the SF way.

> 2. I assume that Sales/Marketing/Procurement are

Yup. But lawyers and business weenies generally don't travel with unit, and if
they do, they sit ensconsed in an office building in the employer's capital
city, not in the field.

> 3. I would assume a larger logistics tail/redundancy

Perhaps.  Maybe I should include a half-dozen generic
'truck drivers' who drive locally procured trucks to supply whatever.

> --- Eli Arndt <eli_arndt@wattosjunkyard.com> wrote:

Being a semi-independent you might want to build in more redundancy and
things
to fight "Murphy".  Maybe a dedicated comms/computer operator in the
Mortar platoon. Of course your Log types could also be "locally" procured like
16th century Artillery limbers!

Michael Brown

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