The Classic BattleTech Forum Mercenary Regiment

[master arminas]

For my second choice - - - I'll go with a MON-66 Mongoose.  Just how this ancient SLDF war-machine managed to survive the intervening centuries is unknown, but the BattleMech is still functional (although with a few . . . peculiarities . . . with its operation.

MechWarrior Walter Isaac Grey (aka "Wig") is a capable, if somewhat creative (and very imaginative), MechWarrior who hasn't been able to remain long within any well-regulated House or Mercenary unit.  However, so far, he seems to fit in quite well amongst the ranks of the CBT Regiment.

MA

[Terrace]

Alright, then. Tossing my second MechWarrior into the ring

Formerly with the 1st Royal Guards until his medical retirement due to a bad ejection while on exercises severing his left leg below the knee, Bradley Dooble was given a fresh-off-the-factory-floor VTR-9D Victor as a mark of his distinguished service. He has found the Gauss Rifle a pure joy to use in exercises, and has signed up with the [Insert final unit name here] in the hopes of putting it to the test.

[PurpleDragon]

For my second 'mech; Would the Avatar be allowed?  Wiki has 'mech made on Wernke which is a moon around Talon.  It is a Battletechnoloy magazine introduction.  Although Battletech wiki does not say the production year, MegaMek has it at 3050.  If it is allowed, then that will be his 'mech the AVT-7-C (sniper) version.  If not then everywhere it says 'mech would be a Battlemaster BLR-1Gbc.  Once again, character name generated by MekHQ.
 
Jesse Zhu, this 28 year old, an obvious Capellan by looks and dress, including the butterfly swords crossed on his back, climbs down out of his 'mech and asks for the Mercenary commander by name.  The Sternsnatch heavy pistol holstered on his right thigh is the only non-Capellan wear he has.  When confronted with how he knows said person's name in such a new unit, his reply is simply "Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.  I am here to offer him my services.  If I meant him harm, you would not be speaking to me now".  His speech is suspiciouly very Davion sounding, dialect similar to that of those used on the planet Talon.   When asked where he got his 'mech, his answer "severance pay".  When asked why he wants to work for this mercenary command:  "It's mercenary of me.  The safest place I can be is among some of my own". 

[Sharpnel]

I'm going smaller with my second choice, the STG-A1 Stinger LAM Mk I. Piloted by Favia 'The Gray' Mauser, the Stinger LAM, nicknamed "Buzzkill", had been disassembled during the Amaris Crisis by her many times grandfather and placed in cold storage until the end of the War of 3039. Her father, a medically retired MechWarrior, re-discovered this family heirloom on their estate on the planet of Melissia and he had it painstakingly rebuilt and some of the electronics replaced. Once rebuilt, Favia's father gifted her the Stinger following her eight years of service to the planetary militia. She made her way eventually to Outreach. As an independent contractor, she's served with six different commands over the last five years. Her most recent contract was with Ace Darwin's WhipIts. Her last employment allowed her to return "Buzzkill to its original armament of pulse weaponry. Until this time, the weaponry was a Medium Laser two small lasers and two machineguns.

[Sharpnel]

For my second 'mech; Would the Avatar be allowed?  Wiki has 'mech made on Wernke which is a moon around Talon.  It is a Battletechnoloy magazine introduction.  Although Battletech wiki does not say the production year, MegaMek has it at 3050.  If it is allowed, then that will be his 'mech the AVT-7-C (sniper) version.  If not then everywhere it says 'mech would be a Battlemaster BLR-1Gbc.  Once again, character name generated by MekHQ.
 
Jesse Zhu, this 28 year old, an obvious Capellan by looks and dress, including the butterfly swords crossed on his back, climbs down out of his 'mech and asks for the Mercenary commander by name.  The Sternsnatch heavy pistol holstered on his right thigh is the only non-Capellan wear he has.  When confronted with how he knows said person's name in such a new unit, his reply is simply "Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.  I am here to offer him my services.  If I meant him harm, you would not be speaking to me now".  His speech is suspiciouly very Davion sounding, dialect similar to that of those used on the planet Talon.   When asked where he got his 'mech, his answer "severance pay".  When asked why he wants to work for this mercenary command:  "It's mercenary of me.  The safest place I can be is among some of my own".

According to Sarna, the Avatar you chose, which is apocryphal, was designed after the Clans arrived as it was to be an answer to the clan Naga. If you like the idea of an artillery Mech, why not go with the Helepolis

[Liam's Ghost]

Liam Taibhse: A former member of the TDF's small special warfare department heavily involved with TMI, Liam Taibhse resigned his commission and took his battlemech into mercenary service out of a desire to no longer be the butt of jokes throughout the Inner Sphere's intelligence community. An exceptional pilot, but only a passable shot, he avoids combat with pride, focusing on identifying targets for other people to kill while he runs away. Some might call him a coward. Others note that given the frail ultralight FLE-14 Flea he pilots, being anywhere near even light weapons fire for any amount of time shows unbelievable bravery.

[Sir Chaos]

Can we throw the rotten tomatoes at the Banshee and Mackie now. ::)

You are welcome to try.

What are the range brackets for rotten tomatoes again?

[kalthud]

A Second Mech! WOOT! A Centurion for me. (I kinda like mediums)

[PurpleDragon]

A Second Mech! WOOT! A Centurion for me. (I kinda like mediums)

Um, I think he asked we go to a different weight class. 
 

[lrose]

Sergeant Ross Jackson - WLF-1 Wolfhound.  Sgt Jackson originally piloted an old COM-2D that had been in his family for centuries.  Trained in it's use by his father, a noted mechwarrior scout in the LCAF, he joined the LCAF shortly before the beginning of the 4th Succession War.  He was assigned to the Lightning Company of the 3rd Lyran Regulars and soon fought in several major engagements during the 4th Succession War, where he distinguished himself as a talented light mech pilot.  During the War of 3039, he saw action with the 3rd Lyran Regulars on Delacruz where his regiment suffered heavy losses.  Sgt Jackson barely survived but his Commando was reduced to scrap.  Facing the threat of a possible lawsuit due to "command incompetence" the LCAF decided to award Ross with a brand new WLF-1 Wolfhound.  Even so, Ross found himself becoming disillusioned with the LCAF and the new AFFC.  After finishing his 20 years in the LCAF in 3047, he retired, taking his Wolfhound and entering the Mercenary market.

[kalthud]

OK, instead of a Cent, a Dragon

[Sir Chaos]

Okay... a second Mech and pilot...

MechWarrior Tessa Lamont, callsign "Hurry"
Mech: UM-R60L UrbanMech, nickname "Wait for me!"

MechWarrior Lamont is used to being the slowest in any unit; this fact (or the callsign it has inspired) has not helped improve her disposition either inside or outside the cockpit - or done the enemy any good if or when she finally does catch up with them, or vice versa. She is, in short, a walking (*slowly* walking) bundle of pent-up frustration looking for a target to take them out on, and enemy and ally alike are well advised not to get in her way.

[Sharpnel]

Wow, you must really want Tessa to die. This is the worst variant of the UrbanMech in my opinion as it lacks the armor of the standard model or the range of the AC-10.

[Sir Chaos]

Wow, you must really want Tessa to die. This is the worst variant of the UrbanMech in my opinion as it lacks the armor of the standard model or the range of the AC-10.

It is also so damn slow that, most of the time, it won´t be anywhere near where the enemy is - and nowhere near close enough to any enemy for them to want to shoot it.

[Koren-Gagin]

My second choice is an actual mechwarrior!

Gerald Garadbaldi
Catapult C1

Former member of the 1st Ducal Guards. Following the end the end of of Antons' revolt some jow surviving the Dragoons revenge angainst Anton on New Delos but losing his ride he spent some years with several merc groups. One day during a capellan raid an enemy catapult got seperated. Gerald single handed climbed up the mech opened the cockpit and turned the unfortunate  Capellans brain into a grease  stain. Since then he has piloted the captured  catapult which he nicknamed "Severance Pay".

[Warclaw]

Right then:

Second Mechwarrior:  Gabriel Thorne
Rank: Knight-Errant of the Order of Randis
Nation-State of Origin: Lyran Commonwealth
Mech:  PX-3R Phoenix
Personal Weapon of Choice: Hand-and-a-half Broadsword (Vibro-sword)

An anachronism wrapped in an enigma is how many have described Gabriel.  Chivalrous and polite off the field of battle, but brutally efficient once the bullets start to fly, Gabriel scrupulously adheres to the Code of Randis and the Ares conventions. 

Within those strictures however, Gabriel is a master at "Battlefield Chess".  More than one opponent has thought him all but beaten, only to suddenly find themselves in a catastrophically bad tactical and strategic position with little to no warning.

When first rising to attention, Gabriel piloted a custom Panther, with its PPC replaced by a Large Laser, and CASE added to the ammo bins.  Unfortunately, this mech was destroyed in the defense of a mid-sized refugee settlement during the Andurien conflict.  Six months later, he reappeared with an ancient Phoenix. Gabriel's use of an all but extinct mech design has drawn more than one comment from observers, but when asked, all he will say is: "The old girl and I both seek to rise above our past misdeeds.  What is past, is past, let it remain so."

Gabriel has spent the last few years traveling through the Davion Outback and near Periphery, hunting pirates and escorting medical aid missions, aided by a small unit of Confrere Brothers from the Order of Randis.  The small unit (Three light tanks, One Karnov VTOL, a MASH unit, and a platoon of engineers) try to leave places in better shape than they found them on arrival.

[Shadow_Wraith]

Here is my second submission!  :)

Mechwarrior Joe “Elvis” Eastwood,
Battlemech: CLNT-2-3U Clint
Personal Weapon: Antique Sunbeam laser pistol and a semi-automatic shot gun

   Joe does not talk much about his personal past, only that he was born on Terra, nor where he recently got his new Battlemech, which he named ‘Dirty Harry.’  What is known about Joe is that he looks like he is in his twenties and has been an independent mercenary for nearly 20 years has served in every Successor State.  His mercenary history has shown that he has served in a few line house units to teaching mech piloting and lance tactics to a few militias located in the periphery areas of the Successor states.  The only other information known about Joe is his love of finding a Karaoke bar to sing and to pursue acting in any local theater or shows as an extra.

He is a certified technician to repair Battlemechs and always inspects any repairs that is done by other technicians.  Battlerom footage has shown that his favorite tactic is to snipe at the enemy mech at long range and use his mech’s speed to avoid getting damage.  He will then get close to medium range to use his lasers.  When working with team mates, he will coordinate in assisting in taking down the most dangerous mech first then to the next one.  His has previously  piloted a Phoenix Hawk, Jenner, Javelin and a Dragon.

Currently he just ended his contract with the FWLM and is signing up with the CBT Mercenary regiment to see what new adventure and money will bring.

[master arminas]

Mech:  PX-3R Phoenix

Where is the -3R from?  I'm not finding it on Sarna.  (And we are at 56 and climbing.)

MA

[Giovanni Blasini]

Hmm...add to the building Urbie lance, or add to the building LAM lance/

[Farnsworth]

TRC-4EW-B Chameleon "Racinante"
Pilot: LT. Nick Holden
RIO: Sgt. Philo T Farnsworth

Just about every major unit has a Chameleon or two around for training, proficiency exams or just some general use hack. Holden and Farnsworth, two sandbagging Andurien scoundrels from the long gone 6th defenders found another use for their ride while on Grand Base. Since, the "old nag" has gone through a lot more modifications.
 
The TRC-4EW-B takes a page from ancient times being part Trojan horse and Q-ship. Featuring several tons of advanced communications gear, weapons, an XL engine, and freezers as well as a small cargo compartment full of "camouflage" among other things. The nag is rumored to have strolled into facilities, friendly and foe alike, operating in full view of troops on many occasions smuggling, tapping communications, ferreting out intel, stealing supplies, mechjacking or bagging VIP's.

Too many among the Inner Sphere are onto the old nags antics these days and she's since been relegated to more of a scouting lance command role where Holden and Farnsworth put all that commo gear to good use.       

Drat, only read the first post and deeper in I see "Only Cannon". Oh well...

[2ndAcr]

 Mechwarrior Billy DeHavre piloting a PHX-1b (special).

 Cousin of Mechwarrior Mitchell, excels at providing fire support for recon elements where is speed and jump jets allow for rapid deployments. Will not say where he got his hands on his mech, but everyone assumes it was from the same location where his cousin found his.

 I can change it if you want me to go with a different weight class since I already have a med mech, but we are light on med mechs IMO.

 If you want to change it, slap him in a TLN-5W Talon since we have one already and we will play tag team on some poor sole.

[master arminas]

Hmm...add to the building Urbie lance, or add to the building LAM lance/

There should be a canon Urbie-LAM out there somewhere--DAMNIT!  (A canon Urbie-LAM with a cannon; heh.)  :)

MA

[Koren-Gagin]

MA,

So were at an over strength heavy battalion would say were ready for some action a bit what you think I know you wanted to get a regiment but since were adding second choices now I think we got something here.

[master arminas]

MA,

So were at an over strength heavy battalion would say were ready for some action a bit what you think I know you wanted to get a regiment but since were adding second choices now I think we got something here.

I'm going to keep this open for a couple of more weeks to get all the submissions in -- then we will start on the process of determining our officers.  And maybe then I'll get cracking on writing something!

MA

[O5P_Ghost]

Mechwarrior Hohiro Rasmussen reporting in his Crab-27.
Second Mech Antonio Toyma in a Hatamoto-Hi

If you need I have a cousin in a Archer2K. His sister drives a Jenner F. We are a Drac expat unit, the Missing Dragons. We'll sign on if needed.

[Iron Grenadier]

Here's my 2nd -

William Conrad served in the Free Worls League 10th Marik Militia from 3029 to 3039 piloting the family owned WVR-6M Wolverine. Graduate of the Allison Mechwarrior Institute.

[Warclaw]

Where is the -3R from?  I'm not finding it on Sarna.  (And we are at 56 and climbing.)

MA

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Phoenix_%28BattleMech%29

VERY early Rim Worlds design, thought to be an extinct design, but now known to be in use by the Hanseatic League.  And as with almost all "Dead" designs, there remains the possibility of a Brian Cache find or similar unearthing of forgotten storage units.

OOC, Gabriel is unsure of how his mech came to be in the hands of the pirate he took it from, though he suspects, given some other information he found in the remains of the pirate's camp, that it had been recovered from a derelict dropship found by pure chance.  He is aware that the mech itself dates from the re-unification war period, and in fact retained enough remnants of its original markings and paint to positively identify its origin unit as the 6th Amaris Legionnaires.

[Taron Storm]

I wish to honor a friend who just passed away this morning by seeing if his character can be brought into this story to be as a way to remember him.

Player: Don Haralson
Character: Norman Chan (Ex-pat Liao)
Rattlesnake

"What book on tactics, there is no book as far as I am concerned.  Light mech tactics IS chaos, and to fight in this battlefield you must embrace that chaos to survive it."- Norman Chan

Edit: I just read where we can choose a second unit.  If possible, then I would use it for my friends character.

[jklantern]

It is rarely easy for those of strong European descent to live in the Draconis Combine.  For Johannes Mayer, a man of very Germanic Heritage, life on New Samarkand was not the easiest.

It is not entirely known where this chef learned to pilot a Mech.  Nor is it entirely known what he did to earn a PNT-9R Panther (with complements of the Coordinator), nor how he simultaneously managed to be banished from the Combine (also with complements of the Coordinator).  Every time he is asked these questions, this scarred, taciturn man simply stares coldly, until the offender goes away.  He insists on wearing a chef's jacket as part of his dress uniform, and wears a bread knife and chef's knife into combat, almost in the style of the Wakizashi and Katana of Kuritan samurai.  His quirks are tolerated, mostly because he is terrifying to look at (although the food he makes for his fellow mercenaries is by all account excellent, often times bringing unique fusions of different cultures and flavors together).

[truetanker]

Fine then put me in a King Crab-010.

MechWarrior Pi.
(TT)

MechWarrior Pi got his King Crab-010 from his great-grandfather who kept it hidden from the rest of the Inner Sphere by requesting that his King Crab " Molly " be used only by family members. What he didn't tell his superiors was that Molly was a downgraded -010. Keeping the outer shell to look like a standard -000, his family caused Molly to survive. Only when the { insert story line here } was she returned to her original shell.

She limps to the right a bit due to a bad leg actuator replacement, while it doesn't detract from moving it just gives an impression of a limp. Also those PPC's don't fire in the cobalt color, more like a Kobi.
http://www.colourlovers.com/color/D68FB3/Kobi

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