Unit:Warpigs Mercenary Company

About
Unit Motto: Eat More Chicken

The Warpigs Mercenary Company (Also known as WMC) was originally founded in the early 1990s video game, Aol Solaris. The founding members or hogs as they are called, believed there was a need to organize a set of great friends under one banner employed in the House ranking system of Multiplayer Battletech: 3025, or better known as MPBT:3025. That need is the founding principle for WMC...

"To organize a set of great friends under one banner"

The unit leader RoughKnight has further expanded the founding hogs goal and made WMC a common place where members can share in a friendly and mature online gaming community, whether it be PC or consoles, and made it a place to have fun and build lasting friendships. A place where members can be confident they will be heard and a place where friends will always be there to lend a helping hand.

WMC and its members have been involved in many games such as the Mechwarrior Series, Everquest 1&2, Dark Age Of Camelot, Planetside, World Of Warcraft, Eve Online, City Of Heroes, Champions Online, and is currently involved in the ever evolving landscape of MechWarrior: Online. The WMC has players of many skill levels, from beginner to expert, casual to competitive/hardcore and are located through out the Western Hemisphere and Europe.

As of mid September 2014, unit membership consisted of 30 active players, and about 20 inactive to semi active players.

Unit Structure
With the introduction of Community Warfare in MWO, the WMC is undergoing a change in its unit structure. While not all details of the changes are known, what is known is made available on this Wiki page.

Member Ranks
Mercenary's of the WMC hold ranks based off of the Canadian Army's ranking system of Terra in the 21st century.



Organization
WMC is organized into three companies. Each company has a different purpose and goals as well as a varied lance and company structure.

Able Company
Able Company is a semi competitive/casual company. Members of this company are not ultra competitive and participate in MWO with the WMC for fun, but are willing to get in a competitive match or two when time permits. Able Company is organized into three lances with four mech's per lance.

Company Commander: DarkFawkes

Company Executive Officer RjBass3

Company Tactical Officer TBD

Baker Company
Baker Company is a semi competitive/casual company. Members of this company are not ultra competitive and participate in MWO with the WMC for fun, but are willing to get in a competitive match or two when time permits. Baker Company is organized into three lances with four mech's per lance.

Company Commander: RoughKnight

Company Executive Officer TBD

Company Tactical Officer TBD

Razerbacks Company
The Razerbacks Company is WMC's ultra competitive, rapid deployment team. Made up of three lances, the Razerbacks consist of WMC's best and most competitive members. The Razerbacks will represent WMC's first line of defense when the 2nd phase of MWO's Community Warfare begins in the later half of 2014.

Company Commander: MaseInYoFace

Company Executive Officer TBD

Company Tactical Officer TBD

Notable Members
Col RoughKNight: Unit Commander, Baker Company Commander, Unit Director Strategic Operations, Unit Admin

LCol Dark Fawkes: Unit XO, Able Company Commander, Unit Chief Resource Officer, Unit Admin

WMC Online
As the popularity of the WMC grew in 2014, so did it's online presence. Several members of the WMC stream live to Twitch.tv while others have created special channels for the WMC on YouTube. You can also find WMC pages on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

Website
www.warpigs.ca is the current home of the WMC but as of Sept 2014, users can also access the main site by going to www.warpigmercs.com. The latter of which will be the new online home of the WMC by Summer 2015.

Teamspeak
The WMC currently maintains 3 separate TS channels.

[ts3server://warpigs.ddns.net/?port=9987 Channel 1] - Is the WMC's private TS server. It is normally only up and used for special occasions.

[ts3server://voip01.n1585.hypernia.net?port=9992&password=mechwarrior&channel=Warpigs%20Mercenary%20Company%20-%20warpigs.ca%2FLobby Channel 2] - Is the WMC's main TS channel and is found in the Sponsored Groups on NGNG's TS server.

[ts3server://na1.mech-connect.net?channel=Inner%20Sphere%20Mercenary%20Alliance%2FGalatea%2FWarpigs%20Mercenary%20Co%20-%20www.warpigs.ca Channel 3] - Is the WMC's TS Channel found on the Comstar TS server. While not used as much as in the past, the WMC still maintains a presence on Comstar as a backup channel in the event NGNG is experiencing issues.

Social Media
The WMC currently updates two social media pages with more planned in the future.

Facebook Twitter

Streaming Video
Several members of the WMC currently have WMC/MWO channels on Youtube, and while the WMC does not have an official YouTube channel yet, one is planned for the near future. The WMC Twitch channel was just started in the Fall of 2014 and has already gained a bunch of followers. Along with the official WMC Twitch channel, several members of the WMC including M A S 3, RjBass3, inBOIL and others have Twitch feeds that they use for WMC activity in MWO.

WMC Twitch Channel