Some of the Mercs, who are too crazy or stupid to be trusted with ranged weapons, wear massive suits of Plastasteel armor and serve as living battering rams, armed with lethal plasma gloves that can destroy pretty much anything in a super-gory fashion. The best practical way of killing them, short of a tactical nuke, is a powerful laser blast to their comparatively thin back plate.


Gives one for free:

Daily Business, Peacekeeping, Pacification, Sway Local Govt, Secret Base, Mutant Pogrom, Crackdown, Base Supply, Cargo Freight, Gold Transport, Resource Wars, Military Supply, Courier Run, Passenger Ferrying, Luxury Ride, Survey, Influence, Conversion, Supervision, Mercenary Contract, Raid, Smuggling, Olde Sworde, Fuso Sword, Crack, Kosmoportovaya Vodka, Gauss Musket, Gauss Pistol, Sniper Gauss, Heavy Gauss, , Smugglers, Rodelhia, Rimriders, Astronaughts, Blobbers, Clickors, Quirians, Cerebrala, Togua, Animatrons, Eridians, Nubirans, Paradise Worlds, Merc Bizcard, Gravball League, The Planet Of War, Imperial Shocktroops, #136, #138, #153, #154

Cost: 15
Points: 33

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