Dear Folks –
I have a soft spot for “The Forlorn Hope” by David Drake.
To me it feels very Traveller-like. It’s not one of his “Slammers” series, and the weaponry is close enough that you could run this as a Trav merc scenario (well, if you wanted to be a nasty referee).
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David "Hyphen" Jaques-Watson ..at.. Beowulf Down (Tavonni/Vilis/SM 1520)
http://www.tip.net.au/~davidjw davidjw@pcug.org.au
"I file things in historical order, with a hashing algorithm of gravity"