Skills and skill levels for building an army, intelligence service, bureaucracy

[Peter Knutsen]

Originally Posted by Icelander

The rules for hiring people in SE, like most rules written by Stoddard, are less than satisfactory. The text tells me nothing I didn't already know and if I try to use the mechanics, the results will rarely match the colour text or common sense.

Those rules might be legacy material from 3rd Editon. I remember there were some finding-hirelings rules, probably in GURPS Basic 3rd Edition Revised. Maybe that material was just copied over, without any revision or scrutiny?