From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:51:15 -0400
Subject: RE: mixed units was [DS,FT] NSF
> I'm referring to Non-Standard Forces - those ships and vehicles that At my usual glacial production rate, I'm writing a background for a nation on Cibola, a balkanized planet. This nation, as yet unnamed, is going through a civil war, and its neighbors are treating it as a good place to live-fire test their doctrine and equipment--analogous to the Spanish Civil War. Both sides of the civil war have at least three factions and each faction has its own suppliers, patrons, arms dealers, volunteers, mercs, etc. One week it may be PAU mercs in ESU gear fighting a company of Sikh "volunteers" in GEVs, next week Islamic Fed-supplied local militia plus a third-hand, badly maintained Loyalist (Green faction) combat walker vs NSL-trained Loyalist (Blue faction) special forces. No orbital bombardment or nukes because no one wants to escalate things quite that far, but aside from that, anyone could be fighting anyone else.