Tiegel Academy of War

Located on Tiegel IV, the Academy of War is the main and only major facility for training new MechWarriors, Aerospace pilots and Battle Armor infantry in the territory of Clan Ashen Corsac.

## History

What would eventually become the Tiegel Academy of War started as a Castle Brian. Built shortly after the Reunification Wars by the SLDF in order to deter any resurgence of anti-SLDF sentiment, the Castle would ironically fall under the control of the Rim Worlds Army several years before the infamous Amaris Coup and would ultimately be used against the SLDF in the defense of Tiegel IV in 2769. The Castle would be stripped clean by Kerensky's forces, then eventually forgotten following the collapse of the Rim Worlds Republic and the subsequent Succession Wars.

The Castle would be rediscovered in 3044 by Hannah Faust and Lukas Dresner and would go on to be re-activated, refitted and re-armed under the name of Fort Renewal after the formation of Clan Ashen Corsac in 3064. Training new cadets in such an environment was deemed to instill a sense of prestige, on top of being very easily defended in the case of attacks, and the sprawling underground chambers, hangars, and empty warehouses made for a perfect location to quickly put to action with minimal resources.

## Courses

The primary focus of the Tiegel Academy is MechWarrior training, and this is the course with the most experienced instructors available. Battle Armor training is also an important and visible part of the Academy, but the Corsacs have less experience and fewer instructors for it. Aerospace pilots are also trained, but these are generally fewer in numbers as most Air jockeys train on Grenze or Zhuhai instead. The least visible of the four main courses are special forces training. Commandos trained in intelligence operations, irregular warfare and counter-insurgency actions earmarked for the Star Ranger clusters.

The Tiegel War Academy's courses have two major differences from most other Inner Sphere academies. The first is that all cadets are expected to come in already having completed extensive boot camps or with adequate practical military experience to substitute for it, therefore not a single second is waste on basic skills or physical conditioning and every hour of every day is filled with advanced combat courses and academics. The second is that it is an Academy dedicated not to making simple Soldiers, but to make proper, First-line-worthy Clan Warriors out of anyone, be they Trueborn or Freeborn.

To that goal, The Tiegel War Academy supplements classes related to a cadet's primary war machine of choice with classes on advanced unaugmented combat techniques, including how to fight outnumbered and how to use martial arts to turn an Elemental - or other suitably powerful opponent- 's strength and momentum against them. Extensive classes on proper conduct in warfare, Trials, and Zellbrigen are also an important part of the curriculum, which is immediately contrasted with classes on strategy where every dirty trick in the book that may be employed by dishonorable foes to try and take advantage of the aforementioned proper conduct are reviewed. Finally, history lessons covering the Amaris Civil War and the subsequent Succession Wars, with plentiful shock imagery of the widespread devastation and horror, are added to ensure every Warrior understands the reason why the 'silly honorable combat rules' exist.

## Known Instructors

 Vera Frei
 Oswald Reinhardt