Tech Level 12. The starships of the Friendly Federation boldly go where no human has interfered before. Cruisers carry one battlesuited company of Marines, in case the locals don't see the arrogant busybodies as friends. The Space Marines are a light, expeditionary force which can count on Navy support for logistics and orbital fires.
* A rifle squad consists of two four-man fire teams and a sergeant. Each team has one "x-ray laser MG" (RoF 16*) and three "x-ray laser rifles" (RoF 8*) plus a few missiles, the sergeant has a rifle as well. 3.6-MJ xaser (6d*8(2), RoF 8*, 562 shots from 10 rE) and 10-lb. missiles (6d*32(10), 3 shots). 3.6-MJ xaser (6d*8(2), RoF 16*, 562 shots from 10 rE). * A weapons squad consists of three two-man teams and a sergeant. Each team has one "antiparticle bazooka" and one x-ray laser rifle, again the sergeant has a rifle. 108-MJ antiparticle beam (6d*110(2), RoF 1/3, 20 shots from 10 rE) * An engineer squad has two four-man teams and a sergeant. Each team has four x-ray laser rifles (with fewer power cells, but extra demolition guns), their sergeant has a rifle, too. 100mm extremely-short-barreled, very-low-power, gravitic, fast autoloader (20 rounds), 3.6-MJ xaser (281 shots from 5 rE), one missile, 6 lbs. left in the module. * A rifle platoon consists of three rifle squads, one weapons squad, one platoon leader, one platoon sergeant, and one attached corpsman. There are 37 battlesuits, 27 rifles, 6 Mgs, 3 bazookas, and one unarmed (?) trooper. * An engineer platoon has three engineer squads, one platoon leader, and one platoon sergeant. There are 29 rifles, no heavy weapons. * A rifle company consists of three rifle squads, one engineer platoon, one company leader, one XO, one company sergeant major, and one operations NCO in battlesuits. There are 144 suits with 114 x-ray rifles, 18 MGs, 9 Antiparticle Bazookas. The company headquarters also contains four 4-ton grav jeeps with one driver each and a dozen armorers, suit mechanics, commo operators, and supply clerks. Some of them drop in the jeeps, some stay in the ship to manage logistics. * The cruiser has a dozen dropships, each rated for 16 battlesuits. On average two are down with some maintenance problem, which leaves ten operational to drop 144 suits and four jeeps. The dropships require 24 pilots, their maintenance is handed by the ship's crew. * An independent platoon on a smaller starship would add one XO, one operations NCO, another corpsman, two grav jeeps with their drivers, and six non-battlesuit support troops. They would fit into three of those dropships, with a 4th dropship as spare or to distribute the troops between more targets. If three independent platoons come together, they will be short the combat engineers and slightly overstrength in supporting techs/clerks. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
