Requirements for a BTU Privateer

[Mohammed As`Zaman Bey]

Historically, pirates were generally involved in commerce raiding as well.  The were just in business for themselves instead of a government.  In the BTU, though, “pirates” do things that aren’t commerce raiding all the time.  If you instead think of a privateer as a tame pirate on a leash, it transfers over pretty easily (even if in Filtvelt, the main canon example, they pretty readily slipped the leash and proved not to be very tame at all).

  Actually, they are mercenaries, performing regular military duties, as any other unit would, under the same rules of warfare, as per contract and treaty protocols.
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[Emcha]

I've been working on a mercenary company that specializes in anti-piracy and recapture operations.

basically a force built to 1)track down stolen ships with the intent of boarding them and reclaiming them for the client, and 2)find pirate bases and make like the Beach assault scene in 'Apocolypse, Now!' only with battlemechs.

so each lance is built as a reinforced air lance, with four mechs, two ASFs, and at least one platoon of infantry, preferrably two. the ASFs would have troop compartments.

three of these lances combine into something like a battalion combat team equivalent to a squadron of ASFs, a company of mechs, and two companies of infantry.

I would imagine dropships like the Octopus would be ideal for privateer operations.

[Daryk]

Nice combined arms set up...  :thumbsup:

[Arkansas Warrior]

I found something relevant: in FM 3145 Mercs, there’s a short account of a unit operating under Letter of Marque in the Notable Units section of the Gun Trailers entry.  Apparently they were just doing normal, terrestrial convoy escort.