2nd Buena Guards

Second Buena Guards
Previous Designation(s) 5th Alliance Guards
Affiliation Lyran Commonwealth
Parent Command Commonwealth Guards

The Second Buena Guards is a regional military force belonging to the Lyran Commonwealth.

History[edit]

The unit was formed from the survivors of the Fifth Alliance Guards.[1] In 3085 the Second Buena Guards were stationed on Son Hoa, acting as the garrison force.[2] They also helped StarCorps engineers move damaged production lines to Loburg.[1]

Rocinha's Caballeros made use of their Winterhawk transports on the Harvison Flats to bedevil elements of the Second Buena Guards. They used their Winterhawks to deploy the Caballeros infantry in the rare natural strongpoints along the route of the Guards' retreat to Zanzibar. When the conventional elements of the Guards deployed to assault, the Winterhawks would return and evacuate the mercenary troops. Such efforts stalled the retreat of the Guards and allowed the Eighth Tamarind Regulars to cut off part of their conventional forces.[3]

Under the command of Kommandant Ludwig Steiner, forces from the Second joined an LCAF task force to retake the world of Valloire, working alongside the Lyran Irregulars and elements of the Carlisle BPM. Despite an early setback trying to take the planet's spaceport, the task force was successful, reducing the Buena Collective forces to a mere lance of operational 'Mechs by the time they fled the planet.[4]

Officers[edit]

Rank Name Command
Commanding Officers of the 2nd Buena Guards
Leutnant-General Roger Battaglia 3085[2]
Colonel Macy Georges Roughly 3125-3145[5][6]

Tactics[edit]

Unknown.

Composition History[edit]

3085[edit]

Second Buena Guards LCT (Regular/Reliable)[2]

Second Buena Guard Aerospace (Green/Reliable)[2]

Second Buena Armor Brigade (Regular/Questionable)[2]

Second Buena Infantry Brigade (Regular/Reliable)[2]

3145[edit]

Second Buena Guards (Veteran/Reliable)[5]

  • CO: Colonel Macy Georges

Second Buena Guard Aerospace (Veteran/Fanatical)[5]

Second Buena Armor Brigade (Veteran/Reliable)[5]

Second Buena Infantry Brigade (Veteran/Reliable)[5]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Field Manual: 3085, p. 99
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Field Manual: 3085, p. 108, "Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces - Timbuktu Theater"
  3. Technical Readout: 3150 , p. 34-35 "WINTERHAWK APC"
  4. Shattered Fortress, p. 42
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Field Manual: 3145, p. 132, "Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces - Timbuktu Theater"
  6. Field Manual: 3145, p. 123

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