Now that we're several years into our Total Chaos campaign, a curious question arises.
When the mission gives the player additional forces, are these accounted for when building the OpFor, or are they free additional forces? The book is fairly vague about this, and the only example that suggests the forces are free comes from the example blurb on pgs 159-160 of Campaign Operations. It references the "Another Day Another C-Bill" mission from Total Chaos pg. 41. The example states that the Fifty-first Dark Panzers force gets 3,750 BV2 - 75% of the player's 5,000 BV2, but doesn't account for the three escort vehicles that the player takes.
So, free-forces as the example implies? Or is it, "Let your table decide?"