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Assigned to the Castor Theater, 7 to 8 on the Inner Sphere Clock, the ComGuard 8th Army is located on the border of Lyran and Marik space, making it a prime target for Blakist terrorist attacks, being known as Stern Defense.
Contents
History
During the Battle of Tukayyid, the inexperienced Eighth Army was teamed with the remains of the Second Army and assigned to face Clan Diamond Shark. While the Eighth suffered heavy losses, ROM's intelligence rating the Diamond Sharks as the weakest Clan on Tukayyid proved accurate, with the Sharks totally routed and almost completely destroyed. [1]
With the arrival of the Word of Blake and the ejection of ComStar from the Free Worlds League in 3052, the Eighth Army was moved to station planets on the FedCom-League Border. With the FWLM's recapture of League worlds lost to the Federated Commonwealth in the Fourth Succession War in 3057, the Eighth moved to garrison worlds in the Lyran Alliance. [2]
With little opportunity for full combat, the Eighth instead had to weather terrorist attacks from both the Word of Blake and surprisingly Loki, Katherine Steiner-Davion seemingly attempting to focus the Com Guards attentions away from approaching FedCom Civil War.[2] When the situation burst into open warfare, the Eighth suffered badly with elements fighting alongside and against both the Allied and Loyalist forces, with the actions of 167th earning them expulsion from ComStar but winning the friendship of the 4th Crucis Lancers, who absorbed many of their survivors.[3]
Officers
As of 3050, the Eighth Army was under the command of Precentor V Maurice Naddeo.[4]
As of 3067, the Eighth Army was under the command of Precentor XI Beeshor Yekel. Named CO of the Eighth after commanding the Sixth Division on Tukayyid [5], Yekel was open in his opinion that Victor Steiner-Davion's appointment to the position of Precentor Martial only increased the public relation problems for the Com Guard, but his loyalty to ComStar is without question and Steiner-Davion tacitly approves of Yekel's stance as "loyal opposition".[2][3][6]
Tactics
Composition
3050
- 31st Division (Static Hurlers IV-kappa, on Alula Australis)[4]
- 56th Division (Eyes of ComStar IV-upsilon, on Sterling)[4]
- 182nd Division (Standing Waves IV-zeta, on Loric)[4]
- 85th Division (Lions of the Periphery IV-kappa, on Tamarind)[4]
- 143rd Division (The Grace of Thought IV-xi, on Poulsbo)[4]
- 79th Division (Straight Words IV-epsilon, on Zdice)[4]
3055
- 182nd Division (The Steel Cavalry IV-kappa, on Castor)[6]
- 85th Division (Mack the Knife Division IV-omicron, on Callison)[6]
- 56th Division (The Martial's Sword IV-iota, on Solaris)[6]
- 167th Division (The Green Moutain Boys IV-xi, on Loric)[6]
3062 to 3067
- 182nd Division (The Steel Cavalry IV-kappa, on Cavanaugh II)[2][3]
- 85th Division (Mack the Knife Division IV-omicron, on Aberystwyth)[2][3]
- 56th Division (The Martial's Sword IV-iota, on Solaris)[2][3]
- 167th Division (The Green Moutain Boys IV-xi, on Loric)[2] - Destoyed during FedCom Civil War [3]
Notes
References
- ↑ Tukayyid, p. 69, "Campaign: Clan Diamond Shark"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Field Manual: ComStar, p. 28, "5th Army V-Omicron: The Mountaineers"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Field Manual: Updates, p. 86-87, "8th Army V-Pi (Stern Defense)"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 20 Year Update, p. 71, "8th V-Omicron"
- ↑ Tukayyid, p. 85, "Annihilation of the Sixth"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 ComStar, p. 85, "8th Army V-Pi"