BattleCorps Unit Digests

Sample cover: 405th Syrtis Grenadiers
Product information
Type	Game supplement
Development	Jason Schmetzer
Primary writing	(various)
Pages	5
Cover Artwork	Ray Arrastia
Publication information
Publisher	BattleCorps
First published	(see individual entries)
Content
Content	(see individual entries)
Series	Unit Digests

This summary article provides an overview of the "Unit Digest" type publications that have been published as exclusive content through the BattleCorps website.

Unit Digests provide information on smallish, less notable military commands in the same fashion as larger units are presented in the Field Manual series of sourcebooks, typically presenting an overview over the unit and its role and history, its individual sub-units, personnell files for six selected unit members, and random allocation tables appropriate for whatever type of vehicle the unit in question typically employs.

The list is sorted in ascending chronological order of publication. Articles are listed here with the exact same name as listed on BattleCorps, irrespective of possibly deviating names within the document proper or the name of the downloadable PDF file.

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Bc Unit Digest: 405th Syrtis

(01 November 2010) - They may not have BattleMechs, and they may not be known throughout the realm, but the 405th Syrtis Grenadiers are soldiers just the same. Now offering one-off BattleTech and A Time of War gameplay aids!

Description of a conventional arms regiment and its four battalions as of 3080, including details on six individual members.

Contents

• Introduction
• Credits
• 405th Syrtis Grenadiers
  • Fourty-Second Guards
  • Ninety-First Assault
  • Ninety-Second Assault
  • Three-Twenty-Ninth Rangers
• Notable Personalities
  • Colonel Sir Cedric Jensen
  • Sergeant Aaron Guarnere
  • Captain Erica von Hoyt
  • Lieutenant Colonel Nelson Hsu
  • Leftenant Miranda Colson
  • Corporal Iqbal Thieb
• Unit Special Abilities

Unit Digest: Hawke's Horde

(16 December 2010) - Hawke's Horde was a pirate group based in the Taurian Concordat just after the turn of the Thirty-First Century. They had a short-but-violent life.

Description of a small mercenary unit-turned-pirate force as of 3013. They consisted of a lance of 'Mechs and a reinforced armor company.

The initial version of this Unit Digest had a faulty random allocation table for vehicles which wrongly included the Savannah Master hovercraft; as this vehicle did not yet exist in 3013, the Unit Digest was updated with a corrected version that did not list this vehicle.

Contents

• Introduction
• Credits
• Hawke's Horde
  • Hawke's Hammers
  • Hawke's Whirlwind
  • Hawke'S Harriers
  • Hawke's Headmen
• Notable Personalities
  • Charley Hawke
  • Sera Bly
  • Liam Semmes
  • Danielle Radcliffe
  • Tim Reyes
  • Victoria Sbarge
• Unit Special Abilities

Unit Digest: Killian's Commandos

(19 February 2011) - In his story "A Cover of Paint" Christopher Purnell introduced us to Killian's Commandos. Now see the mercenary company's unit digest!

The public "Mercenary today!" profile of the unit (as of 3027), annotated by one Adept VII Martin of ComStar with some behind-the-scenes information on their inner workings and conflicts.

Contents

• Introduction
• Credits
• Killian's Commandos
  • Killian's Command Lance
  • Sadamori's Strike Lance
  • Claessen's Recon Lance
  • Killian Security Force
• Notable Personalities
  • John Foster Killian
  • Michael Harper
  • Freddy Marsh
  • Luys Claessens
  • "Miho Sadamori" (Shiro Kanagawa)
  • Angus McPherson
• Unit Special Abilities

Unit Digest: 22nd Coventry Medical

(02 March 2011) - Darrell Myers builds us a frontline support medical regiment based on Coventry in 3064!

Insights into the structure and operations of a medical support regiment.

Unit Digest: Drake's Dragons

(02 April 2011) - Craig Reed shows us what happens when a mercenary unit turns to banditry along the Free Worlds League

Formed from the mercenary unit Drake's Dragoons in 2995, the brothers Drake have turned their father's unit into a mixed regiment of psychopathic criminals, pirates and cutthroats by the turn of the millenium.

Unit Digest: Langston's Lancers

(02 March 2011) - Craig Reed showed us last month a pirate band with no morals--now he shows us the paladins out to hunt them down.

Former FWLM Captain William Langston had a falling out with mercenary-turned-pirate force Drake's Dragons in 3000 when he found out their illegal activities. He escaped an attempt to murder him, resigned, and joined the mercenary unit Morrison's Madmen to lead them against the Dragons. After the Madmen's CO is injured, Langston advanced to command the unit in 3007, renaming them Langston's Lancer.

The unit is portrayed as of 3012.

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External links

• BattleCorps website
• Submission guidelines for Unit Digests, Ship Profiles and Stable Reports on the BattleCorps website