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Revision as of 23:33, 21 May 2018

Mercenary
Book4.png
Classic Traveller Book 4
Author Frank Chadwick
Publisher Game Designers Workshop
Version Classic Traveller
Edition 1st
Format Book (Digest)
Language English
Pages 52
Year Published 1978
Canonical Yes
Available from RPGNow
TBD
Table of Contents
TBD

Mercenary is Book 4 of Classic Traveller.

Description (Specifications)

This book outlines mercenary forces, soldier of fortune being a major part of many science fiction books and films, the Traveller setting allows for Imperial planets to have limited wars using local or mercenary forces. This book is the first that featured an expanded character generation system, rolling for yearly results rather than every term of four years.

Table of Contents

Classic Traveller
Book 4 Mercenary
Section Page/s
Introduction Page 1
The Regular Army - O Page 3
Tickets Page 17
Recruiting Page 25
Battles Page 31
Ironmongery Page 36
Field Artillery Page 48

Library Data Entries (Public)

  1. Imperial Rules of War
  2. Ironmongery
  3. Mercenary
  4. Repatriation Bond
  5. Thunderball
  6. Ticket

Selected Equipment (Combat)

Armor & Protective Gear

  1. Combat Armor
  2. Combat Environment Suit
  3. Flak Jacket

Firearms & Melee Weapons

  1. Accelerator Rifle
  2. Advanced Combat Rifle
  3. Assault Rifle
  4. Auto-Cannon
  5. Auto-Grenade Launcher
  6. Early Grenade Launcher
  7. Gauss Rifle
  8. Hand Grenade
  9. Light Air Defense Missile
  10. Light Assault Gun
  11. Light Machine Gun
  12. PGMP-12
  13. PGMP-13
  14. PGMP-14
  15. FGMP-14
  16. FGMP-15
  17. RAM Grenade Auto-Launcher
  18. Rocket Assisted Multipurpose Grenade Launcher
  19. Snub Pistol
  20. Tac Missile
  21. Very Rapid Fire Gauss Gun

Selected Equipment (Non-combat)

Other Gear

  1. Anti-laser Aerosol
  2. Battle Computer
  3. Computer Fire Control System
  4. Map Box
  5. Nuclear Damper
  6. Radio Jammer
  7. Recon Drone

Selected Vehicles

AFV (Armored Fighting Vehicle)

  1. APC
  2. Armored Car
  3. Gravcraft
  4. Grav Gunship
  5. Grav Sled
  6. Laser Tank
  7. MBT
  8. Tank

Air Support

  1. Helicopter
  2. Helicopter Gunship

Artillery

  1. Remote MRL
  2. Self-propelled Artillery

Softskins

  1. None

Selected Worlds

Mercenary Tickets:

  1. Aramanx (world)
  2. Aramis (SM 2540) (world)
  3. Jokotre (world)
  4. Marastan (world)
  5. Porozlo (world)

Meta-history & Background (Dossier)

No information yet available.

Credits (Primary Sources)

Credits (Primary Sources)
Credit Authors & Contributors
Game design Frank Chadwick
Advice, Assistance and Play testing Marc Miller, John Harshman, Dave Emigh, Tony Svajlenka, Scott Renner, Wayne Roth, and Loren Wiseman
Illustration Dick Hentz
Art Direction Paul R. Banner

External Link/s

COMMENTARY & DATA ARTICLES

  1. EXTERNAL LINK: RPG Geek
  2. EXTERNAL LINK: RPG NET
  3. EXTERNAL LINK: Library Thing

REVIEWS

  1. EXTERNAL LINK: RPG Geek Review I don't know but I've been told, Mercenary is the way to go!
  2. EXTERNAL LINK: RPG Geek Review "Screw* banks — now we're knockin' over GOVERNMENTS."

References & Contributions (Sources)

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