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Line 1: − {{infoBoxMilitaryCommand + {{infoBoxStateUnit − | image = [[File:Marik Militia -Brigade logo.png|191px|Brigade Insignia of the Marik Militia]] + | image = − | Designation = Seventeenth Marik Militia+ | nickname = Charioteers<ref name=FR2765p10>''Field Report 2765: FWLM'',p.10 </ref> − | formed = + | parent formation = [[Marik Militia]] − | Disbanded = [[2787]]<ref name="FSWp53"/>+ | formed = − | Previous Designation = + | year = 2765 − | Nickname = Charioteers<ref name="FR:2765FWLMp10">''Field Report 2765: FWLM'', p.10, "Marik Militia"</ref> + | unitname = 17th Marik Militia<ref name=FR2765p10/> − | Affiliation = [[Free Worlds League]] − | Parent Command = [[Marik Militia]] − | Sub-Command = }} }} − ==History== − === Star League Era === − When the [[Star League]] Council issued the [[Council Edict of 2650]] limiting the size of the military maintained by each [[Great House]] the '''Seventeenth Marik Militia''' was one of nineteen regiments within the Militia to remain active. Like the other regiments of the Militia, the Seventeenth remained a popular unit with both the commoners within the League and the peerage because of their public dedication to the people of the League, and like the other regiments of the Militia often acted as training grounds for troops across the League. A significant number of the personnel serving in other more prestigious federal units and various provincial forces within the League had actually begun their careers in the Seventeenth or another of the Marik Militia regiments.<ref name="FR:2765FWLMp10"/> − === First Succession War === + ==History== − When [[Captain-General of the Free Worlds League|Captain-General]] [[Kenyon Marik]] launched his famous "ten parsec-wide" invasion of the [[Capellan Commonality|Capellan]] and [[Sarna Commonality|Sarna Commonalities]] of the Capellan Confederation in February [[2787]], the Seventeenth were one of the ten regiments from the Marik Militia assigned to the invasion. One of the four systems to be targeted in the first wave of attacks was [[Vanra]]; the [[FWLM]] task force assigned to the invasion of Vanra consisted of three regiments from the [[Marik Militia]] - the [[3rd Marik Militia|Third]], Seventeenth and [[Twenty-first Marik Militia]] regiments - escorted by a naval task force that included at least one [[battleship]], the [[Agrippa|FWLS ''Agrippa'']], two [[destroyer]]s, two [[squadron]]s of attack [[DropShip]]s and three [[Wing (Formation)|wings]] of [[aerospace fighter]]s. The garrison at the time, the [[First Capellan Chargers]], were heavily outnumbered, but had been in place on Vanra for almost twenty-five years, and [[Colonel]] [[Juliano Papadakis]] was determined to lead a fierce resistance against the invaders.<ref name="FSWp53">''First Succession War'', p. 53-54, "A Path to Sarna: The League-Confederation Front"</ref>+ {{Sectionstub}} − Papadakis made the most of the Chargers' familiarity with the terrain on Vanra; as the Marik Militia DropShips began landing, he had his combat air group engage, hammering at the Militia forces. By the time his aerospace fighters had withdrawn, the Militia had lost more than two squadrons of fighters, and an ''[[Overlord]]''-class DropShip carrying a [[battalion]] from the Seventeenth Marik Militia had been crippled, crash-landing in the forests almost twenty kilometers south of Utrecht, the planetary capital city. Familiar with the dense forest and the networks of transient riverbeds in the area, Papadakis knew that the terrain would be confusing and difficult to negotiate for any forces sent to rescue the downed forces. Papadakis' prediction proved correct; he deployed the entire Third Battalion of the Chargers to converge on the site, whilst the remaining elements of the Seventeenth diverted away from their intended positions near Utrecht to try and rescue their comrades, weakening the enemy plan. With much of the forest floor concealed from view from the air, the Chargers' Third Battalion was able to pick off and kill the survivors from the DropShip crash that they found, as well as ambushing and destroying almost a full battalion of rescue forces from the Seventeenth.<ref name="FSWp53"/> − Whilst the Third Battalion was tying up twice its own numbers in the forest, leaving the Seventeenth effectively out of the battle for Utrecht, Papadakis had his remaining forces disperse as [[lance]] and [[company]] sized formations and launch numerous ambushes and feints within Utrecht itself, the city's dense urban sprawl helping the heavier Chargers negate the speed advantage enjoyed by the generally lighter Marik Militia units. Papadakis' troops had destroyed another battalion of Marik Militia forces within Utrecht before the senior [[FWLM]] officer, Colonel [[Udel Melville]], ordered the orbiting ''Agrippa'' to bombard regions of the city. Fires and huge explosions ensued, as one of the sectors targeted by the ''Agrippa'' contained a natural gas refinery, and the resulting refinery explosion engulfed half the city in flames due to the ongoing battle preventing efforts to contain the damage. Melville's forces were ultimately successful, but the Chargers fought to the last man before the planetary government finally surrendered, leaving Utrecht and the great forest to its south in ruins. Melville was forced to disband the remains of the Seventeenth Marik Militia, and use the survivors from the Seventeenth and a mix of salvaged Capellan and League equipment to rebuild the Third and Twenty-first Marik Militias.<ref name="FSWp53"/>+ ==Officers== + {{Sectionstub}} − ==Officers== − {| class="wikitable" − |- − ! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Rank − ! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Name − ! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Command − |- − | colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the 17th Marik Militia''' − |- − |} ==Tactics== ==Tactics== − Unknown.+ {{Sectionstub}} + ==Composition History== ==Composition History== − + ===2765=== − === 2765 === + '''17th Marik Militia''' (Regiment/Green/Reliable) <ref name=FR2765p10/> − '''Seventeenth Militia''' (Regiment/Green/Reliable)<ref name="FR2765:FWLMp10A">''Field Report 2765: FWLM'', p. 10, "Regimental Status"</ref> − :- At this point in time the Seventeenth was stationed on [[Karachi]].<ref name="FR:2765FWLMp10"/> − − === 2786 === − '''Seventeenth Marik Militia''' (Green/Reliable)<ref name="FSWp138">''First Succession War'', p. 138, "Free Worlds League Military (FWLM)"</ref> − :- At this point in time the Seventeenth was a light-weight regiment operating at full strength and was stationed on [[Aitutaki]].<ref name="FSWp138"/> The unit was destroyed during the war. <ref name="FSWp138"/> ==Rules== ==Rules== <div class="gamerules"> <div class="gamerules"> ===Game Rules=== ===Game Rules=== − ==== First Succession War ====+ {{Sectionstub}} − * As a Marik Militia unit the Seventeenth receives no modifier to Random Attribution Table rolls during the First Succession War.<ref name="FSWp147">''First Succession War'', p. 147, "RAT Die Roll Modifiers by Combat Command Table"</ref>+ + </div> </div> − ==References== ==References== <references /> <references /> ==Bibliography== ==Bibliography== − * ''[[Field Report 2765: FWLM]]'' + *''[[Field Report 2765: FWLM]] − * ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)|First Succession War]]'' − [[Category: Free Worlds League Commands|Marik Militia, 17th]] + [[Category:Military Commands|{{PAGENAME}}]]
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