Mercenary (book)

Mercenary
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
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Table of Contents
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Mercenary is Book 4 of Classic Traveller.

• It provides RPG game mechanics, several mercenary tickets, and a basic visioning of planetary combat in the OTU 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. Mercenary

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: TBD

References & Contributions (Sources)

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• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science