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

Book 4 Mercenary

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

Selected Gear

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

Armor & Protective Gear

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

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 Locations

Mercenary Tickets

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

Selected Vehicles

AFV (Armored Fighting Vehicle)

1. APC
2. Gravcraft
3. MBT
4. Tank

Air Support

1. Helicopter

Artillery

1. Remote MRL
2. Self-propelled Artillery

Softskins

1. TBD

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)

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