US Marauder Companies

[James Langham]

Originally Posted by Raellus

Great stuff, James. Your work on organization, equipment, and training is really cool. Being a v1.0 afficionado, I just can't divorce the term "marauder" from the eponymous criminal/military elements of the T2K verse. I'm going to use your unit concept but call it a Raider Company instead.

No problems with that, I am not writing canon and EVERYTHING I write is intended for others to modify to suit their own campaign.

I still plan to use the term marauder as it gives a possible origin for the term later in the war as it feels an odd term to have been used to me. I would have thought bandit was more likely in real life.

[Legbreaker]

Personally I always disliked the term "marauder" as used in T2K. Bandits, thieves, ruffians - they all seemed more fitting, but that's probably just me.

[Raellus]

Originally Posted by James Langham

I still plan to use the term marauder as it gives a possible origin for the term later in the war as it feels an odd term to have been used to me. I would have thought bandit was more likely in real life.

That makes sense. I imagine that "marauder" companies would still be around later in the war and using the term to describe both friendly forces and bandits could cause some potentially disastrous confusion. It could lead either to friendly fire incidents or to hostile forces being given a pass, as it were. That, and the fact that I've associated the term marauder with bandits ever since getting my hands on the v1.0 box at the tender age of 11, is why I'd prefer not to call the type of units you've so brilliantly described marauders.

[Medic]

James, you got to stop giving me ideas! Got three online campaigns running and I play in more than I should. And awesome work, by the way.

[Raellus]

Originally Posted by Medic

James, you got to stop giving me ideas! Got three online campaigns running and I play in more than I should. And awesome work, by the way.

I concur. I'm jonesing to start a campaign based around part of one of these units. I've even started work on a backstory explaining how the PC's fragment got separated from the rest of the company. I should know better, by now!

[James Langham]

Guys, the work is often as much yours as mine as everyone contributes ideas publicly and privately. I would be fascinated to hear any info you develop from this and could always then look at incorporating it.

A Marauder company (sorry but I like the name) would be a great PC unit at Kalisz then little backstory is needed.

[James Langham]

Interestingly when Ranger Coys were reformed in 1950 as "Airborne Ranger Companies" General J Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff proposed they be called "Marauder Companies" - amazing what you find when you research something else!