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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
A bit more than a serious thorn...
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Agreed. I think in places such as Poland where there's a signifcant number of troops of various nationalities and weapons are relatively common you'd find several multi national groups of marauders. I'd imagine such groups would establish their own fiefdoms over time, with an established hierarchy, and could easily prove to be more than a match for many military units.
That said, I think it's relevant to consider exactly how far the regular military might be prepared to go to deal with a marauder threat - it's unlikely that many rules of engagement will continue to exist by the year 2000. In the example above a well equipped marauder group based in a village who have had time to prepare defensive positions might be able to repulse conventional attacks by regular military forces, but how would they cope if the regular military resorted to indiscriminate mortaring or shelling, regardless of what casualties that might cause amongst the village's population? if they were desparate enough to deal with the marauders perhaps they would even consider using chemical weapons, and "collateral damage" be damned.
A marauder group that stays mobile will be better placed to defend against such an attack, but I would have thought that the larger a group grows the greater the likliehood it would try to find somewhere to establish a base of sorts?