Post by Gigermann on May 24, 2011 9:29:31 GMT -6
When the Predators™ come to Earth looking for exciting new game…
…you're on their short-list!
The Dispensables is a modern, paramilitary/commando, combat campaign; a "techno-thriller" (like a Tom Clancy novel). It will make heavy use of GURPS Action 1 & 2, High-Tech, Gun Fu, and Tactical Shooting. Campaign features include:
…you're on their short-list!
The Dispensables is a modern, paramilitary/commando, combat campaign; a "techno-thriller" (like a Tom Clancy novel). It will make heavy use of GURPS Action 1 & 2, High-Tech, Gun Fu, and Tactical Shooting. Campaign features include:
- Player Characters are "mercenaries," equal partners in a small private military company, Action Consultants, specializing in low-intensity, "plausible deniability" and rescue contracts for governments or private entities
- "Procedural," mission-based, continuous storyline
- Lightly "cinematic," but not "over-the-top"—True Lies, not Shoot 'Em Up; access to cinematic Traits will be given via CP expenditure
- No pulled-punches by the GM—character death is certainly possible
- Tracking of company assets, maintenance, salvage, and character-improvement via Google Docs
A private military company (PMC) or (Private Military or Security Companies) provide military and security services. These combatants are commonly known as mercenaries, though modern-day PMCs refer to their staff as security contractors, private military contractors or private security contractors, and refer to themselves as private military corporations, private military firms, private security providers or military service providers. Private Military Companies refer to their business generally as the private military industry, in an attempt to avoid the stigma often associated with mercenaries.
The services and expertise offered by PMCs are typically similar to those of governmental military or police forces, most often on a smaller scale. While PMCs often provide services to train or supplement official armed forces in service of governments, they can also be employed by private companies to provide bodyguards for key staff or protection of company premises, especially in hostile territories. However, contractors who use offensive force in a war zone could be considered unlawful combatants, in reference to a concept outlined in the Geneva Conventions and explicitly specified by the US Military Commissions Act.
Private military companies carry out many different missions and jobs. These include things such as supplying bodyguards to the Afghan president Hamid Karzai and piloting reconnaissance airplanes and helicopters as a part of Plan Colombia. They are also licensed by the United States Department of State, they are contracting with national governments, training soldiers and reorganizing militaries in Nigeria, Bulgaria, Taiwan, and Equatorial Guinea. The PMC industry is now worth over $100 billion a year.
The services and expertise offered by PMCs are typically similar to those of governmental military or police forces, most often on a smaller scale. While PMCs often provide services to train or supplement official armed forces in service of governments, they can also be employed by private companies to provide bodyguards for key staff or protection of company premises, especially in hostile territories. However, contractors who use offensive force in a war zone could be considered unlawful combatants, in reference to a concept outlined in the Geneva Conventions and explicitly specified by the US Military Commissions Act.
Private military companies carry out many different missions and jobs. These include things such as supplying bodyguards to the Afghan president Hamid Karzai and piloting reconnaissance airplanes and helicopters as a part of Plan Colombia. They are also licensed by the United States Department of State, they are contracting with national governments, training soldiers and reorganizing militaries in Nigeria, Bulgaria, Taiwan, and Equatorial Guinea. The PMC industry is now worth over $100 billion a year.