FSRB Chpt 154

==The Federated Suns Reborn - Chapter 154==
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May 3070Operation Agamemnon IV
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===Agamemnon Operations - Progress Report===
The Galedon Military District had began to really suffer during May. Warlord Li Dok To was hurriedly shuffling troops around but struggled due to a lack of functional HPGs available to him. Forced to fall back on the Kurita version of the Black Boxes he was limited in the complexity of orders he could send and the information that could be fed back to him. Jumpship network of "pony express" ships provided greater information and ability to send more complicated orders but were not only expensive to set up but also vulnerable to raiding Davion fighter wings and ships. At the end of the month the Warlord is however in receipt of good news when he is informed that the Ryuken-roku and the 13th & 14th Pesht Regulars have arrived from the Pesht Military District at New Samarkand.
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===Galedon Military District Invasion===
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====New Aberdeen====
At the start of May, Marshal Jon Davion unleashed the 4th Robinson Rangers RCT upon the faltering Ryuken-nana. The core of the 4th Rangers were members of the former Fighting Uruk-hai regiments and they had received word of the losses inflicted upon the Demestri's Sluggers regiment of their old command at the end of April - and more importantly how the 46th Dieron Regulars had taken no prisoners. Although under stern orders that they would not descend to this level of barbarity both from their own commanding officers and also Marshal Jon Davion himself, they do at least get to unleash their rage upon the by now half strength Ryuken-nana. Catching the 2 remaining companies of the regiment's 3rd Battalion isolated they bring the whole weight of their RCT down upon them and crush them in a matter of hours - although they did take a handful of prisoners.
Even as reports are filtering into the rest of the Ryuken-nana of their 3rd battalions total destruction, the Davion Heavy Guards conducted a short combat "hop" using their dropships while the 6th Crucis Lancers move up to drive them into the guns of the Heavy Guards. A handful of Ryuken-nana Battlemech forces and some conventional troops manage to disengage from the 2 day battle but they are effectively destroyed as a formed military unit. These survivors will form the core of the resistance to Davion rule on New Aberdeen moving forward.
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====Marlowe's Rift====
With a civilian government set up and the 1st Ceti Hussars continuing to reduce the hold outs the world of Marlowe's Rift is formally accepted into the Federated Suns during May. The 1st Ceti Hussars RCT will remain on planet, tasked with finishing off the last of the pockets of resistance and also beginning to train a new Planetary Guard loyal to the Federated Suns.
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====Capra====
With the fall of the capital, the AFFS forces on planet concentrate on hunting down the 12th Galedon Regulars. Outnumbered 5:1 and with almost no additional support left beyond their own regiment the 12th Galedon finds itself being harried and driven back deeper and deeper into the wilder parts of Capra. Despite their skill they are now facing overwhelming numbers and equally skilled opponents who have total control of the airspace of the planet. It is a credit to the 12th's officers that they manage to keep the unit fighting throughout May, but the steady losses have reduced them to a little over 4 companies of Battlemechs and proportionate conventional forces, while they've managed to inflict only light losses on the AFFS formations.
Marshal Stromp decides at the end of May, to leave the 8th Deneb Light Cavalry RCT as well as the 2nd Lexington Combat Guards to finish of the surviving 12th Galedon's troops (leaving effectively 3 and a half times the forces remaining to the 12th Galedon Regulars), while the rest of her task force prepares for their next strike. However, just to hedge her bets she arranges for a mixed conventional brigade to be brought up to bolster the 2nd Lexington Combat Guards, effectively "raising" them to a RCT. 
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====Igualada====
Leaving the 3rd Syrtis Fusiliers RCT behind to garrison Harpster,the 1st Crucis Lancers RCT and the 4th Syrtis Fusiliers RCT jump through a number of dead systems to hit the world of Igualada on the 22nd of May. With all DCMS efforts going to fortifying Matsuida for the no doubt impending Davion invasion, the few remaining second or third rate militia formations on the planet stand little chance. After a single conventional mixed battalion that attempts to contest the 4th Fusiliers landing is destroyed almost to the last man the remaining troops decide that discretion is the better part of valor and surrender unconditionally. 
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====An Ting====
At the same time that the 1st Crucis Lancers & 4th Syrtis Fusiliers are being dispatched to seize Igualada a larger task force is hitting the heavily defended world of An Ting. The 4th Federated Suns Armored Cavalry paired with Clan Sun Jaguar' Alpha, Beta, and Delta Galaxies lead the way escorted by the 3rd Destroyer Squadron, while just a day behind them are the 2nd & 4th Ceti Hussars RCTs.
Facing off against this force is the 7th An Ting and the 3rd & 7th Ghost regiments. The I is a new formation and is still under strength, counting only 2 battalions worth of Battlemechs for it's troops but for the defense of the planet the local academy's cadets and instructors bring it up to full strength with machines drawn from the academy's training forces. The 3rd Ghost is at full strength, but the elite 7th is at roughly the same strength as their numerical twin in the An Ting Legions. These regular formations are also backed up by the An Ting Civilian Guidance Corp. Where the defenders really fall down however is in aerospace assets and as soon as the AFFS formations arrive in orbit they are forced into a defensive battle to at least deny air superiority to the Davions for as long as possible.
Landing at a safe distance from the cities the 4th FSAC's CO frees the Sun Jaguar Galaxies to do what they do best. Strike hard and fast at the enemy. While Delta manoeuvres and ties up the 3rd Ghost from intervening the Khan herself leads the Alpha & Beta Galaxies directly into combat with the best of the defenders. Well trained in anti-Clan tactics, the 7th Ghost still finds itself facing constant attacks from an enemy which refuses to back off or attack along predictable lines of advance. While the Clan units are all massively under strength they make up for this with skill. The 7th Ghost manages to hold it's own but when the Khan's own Alpha Galaxy suddenly and with no warning shift to AFFS tactics and throw massive combined firepower at their lines the 7th's defenses crack. At which time Delta Galaxy, disengaging from the 3rd sweeps in and joins their Alpha comrades in driving deep into the 7th's rear areas - while the newly arrived 2nd Ceti Hussars RCT takes over screening the 3rd. By the end of May, the 7th Ghost has been shattered as a fighting regiment and although inflicting heavy losses on the Sun Jaguar troops has been effectively wiped out.
While the two Ghost regiments are facing off against the Clan troops, the 4th FSAC diverts it's attentions to the green 7th An Ting. Equipped with an abundance of heavy and assault class Battlemechs, the 4th FSAC struggles to use the fast moving cavalry tactics of a traditional Federated Suns Armored Cavalry formation, but resorts to sledgehammer style attacks on the 7th's lines - although does at least manage to usually strike from unexpected directions. When the 4th Ceti Hussars RCT joins the 4th FSAC, the 7th An Ting is forced to fall back into the capital city of Cerant and the An Ting University grounds to make it's stand.
With the mauled 7th An Ting falling back and their sister regiment effectively destroyed the 3rd Ghost makes a break for their dropships, sweeping up the survivors of the 7th Ghost as they fall back. Using both sets of dropships (as well as a number of the 7th An Ting's dropships much to the fury of the trapped An Ting troops) the 3rd Ghost attempts to flee the world. With nearly 3 regiments worth of transports they scatter wildly and run the Davion warship's blockade. The initial burn from the planet is the worst as the Davion Admiral in charge has deployed two Davion III Class destroyers almost directly over the capital's starport. Nearly half of the fleeing ships are destroyed before they can effectively scatter and of the ones who escape that initial phase nearly another half are destroyed before they can rendezvous with jumpships. Even after folding the 7th's survivors and a handful of An Ting militia into their ranks the 3rd escapes with barely half their effective force. They flee to nearby Matsuida to join the garrison there.
With the flight of the Ghost regiments the remaining AFFS troops move in on the besieged 7th An Ting and prepare to finish them off. The Clan Sun Jaguar Galaxies stand down to refit their mostly damaged and crippled Battlemechs - with fresh machines arriving through lengthy supply lines back home and from AFFS depots.
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====Kaznejoy====
The desert world of Kaznejoy, once a veritable garden world during the Star League, is a barren desert world with little to offer it now that it's most productive mines have been exhausted. Still as a prefecture capital world it is a key command hub that the AFFS seek to seize. The 5th Davion Guards RCT, 3rd Tikonov Cossacks, and the mercenary Hansen's Roughriders are joined in the invasion by a large conventional force of an armoured brigade and 3 infantry brigades along with 2 independent aerospace fighter regiments and the 4th Cruiser Squadron.
To face them the garrison has 2 green units of the Galedon Regulars - the 43rd & 45th, with the veteran 11th Ghost regiment as well as strong conventional regular and militia formations. The defenders concentrate their forces in and around Gondovia, but are surprised when the Davion troops instead land at the ruined Fort Darwin. While Hansen Roughriders deploy to the desert's to screen the AFFS positions, the 5th Davion Guards as well as the 3rd Tikonov Cossacks take up strong defensive positions while the engineers attached to the infantry brigades hurriedly begin renovating the fortress and repairing it while also building several large airbases for the attached aerospace assets of the attacking force. By the time the Kurita units realize what is happening and attempt to push across the desert to attack the Davion positions are almost impenetrable and their attack is driven off and harried back to Gondovia by the Roughriders. While the Davion forces continue to raid and patrol while continually building up their base on Kaznejoy it is swiftly obvious that they are awaiting further troops before making their attack...
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====Valentina====
The 19th Galedon Regulars had barely arrived back at their garrison postings when the sensors indicated a large formation of AFFS Jumpships arriving at the Nadir jump point. The Screaming Eagles mercenary formation and the 1st Conroe Borderers have arrived to pay them back for their attack on Niles. The attached fighter wing of the Screaming Eagles and the under strength fighter wings of the Conroe Borderers are enough to secure their landing zones, but for once the defending DCMS units don't find themselves hammered from the air.
Knowing the skill of the 19th Galedon Regulars at defensive operations, the Screaming Eagles deploy in an extended front and begin slowly pushing towards the defensive lines of the Regulars. Using their superior numbers and high end equipment they begin slowly grinding them down, all the while waiting for the "signature" drive of the 19th Galedon. In order to counter this they keep the entire 1st Conroe Borderers in reserve to rush any breach the 19th makes in the Screaming Eagles lines. The war of attrition on Niles has now been carried to Valentina, but with the sides switched...
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