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Revision as of 15:12, 23 March 2018

Mercenary
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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

Introduction 1
The Regular Army-O 3
Tickets 17
Recruiting 25
Battles 31
Ironmongery 36
Field Artillery 48

Selected Gear

  1. Assault Rifle
  2. Advanced Combat Rifle
  3. Gauss Rifle
  4. Snub Pistol
  5. Accelerator Rifle
  6. PGMP-12
  7. PGMP-13
  8. PGMP-14
  9. FGMP-14
  10. FGMP-15
  11. Light Assault Gun
  12. Light Machine Gun
  13. Auto-Cannon
  14. Very Rapid Fire Gauss Gun
  15. Early Grenade Launcher
  16. Auto-Grenade Launcher
  17. Rocket Assisted Multipurpose Grenade Launcher
  18. RAM Grenade Auto-Launcher
  19. Hand Grenade
  20. Flak Jacket
  21. Combat Environment Suit
  22. Combat Armor
  23. Radio Jammer
  24. Tac Missile
  25. Recon Drone
  26. Computer Fire Control System
  27. Light Air Defense Missile
  28. Map Box
  29. Battle Computer
  30. Nuclear Damper
  31. Anti-laser Aerosol
  32. TBD
  33. TBD
  34. TBD
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Selected Locations

  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)

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

References & Contributions (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.