Editing 8th Free Worlds Guards

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| image          = [[Image:Free Worlds Guards.jpg|150px]]
| Designation    = Eighth Free Worlds Guards
| formed         = 
| Disbanded      = 2650
| Previous Designation = 
| Nickname       =  The Mauls<ref name="FM:3145p102">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 102</ref>
| Affiliation    = Free Worlds League
| Parent Command = [[Free Worlds Guards]]
| Sub-Command    = 
}}

==History==
Originally active during the [[Age of War]] and the early [[Star League]] era, the '''Eighth Free Worlds Guards''' was a regiment within the [[Free Worlds League Military]] and was disbanded in or around [[2650]] as a result of the issue of Directive 30, otherwise known as the [[Council Edict of 2650]]. Under the terms of Directive 30 the [[Free Worlds League]] was required to reduce the strength of its "federally supported military line units" down to a particular level, in line with the limits imposed by the Directive on the military of every [[Great House]].<ref name="FR:2765FWLMp4">''Field Report 2765: FWLM'', p. 4, "Circumventing Directive 30"</ref>

The Council Edict of 2650 was examined in detail by the [[Dormuth Council]], and on the 22nd of November 2650 the military Chief of Staff to the Council, [[Marshal (rank)|Marshal]] [[Lloyd Harding]], issued a report containing formal recommendations to [[Captain-General of the Free Worlds League|Captain-General]] [[Ward Marik]]. One of the recommendations made was that all of the forces supplied to the FWLM by the various provinces of the FWL should be removed from the FWLM chain of command and officially handed back to the provinces, as provincial forces funded directly by those provinces were exempt from the strictures of the Edict; another recommendation was that the Eighth and one of her sister regiments, the [[Seventh Free Worlds Guards]], be officially disbanded along with the [[Fifteenth Atrean Dragoons]]. These disbandment would bring the FWLM down to the official limits imposed by the Edict; Harding also recommended that while officially being disbanded, the Seventh, Eighth and Fifteenth should be quietly integrated into the provincial forces of the [[Duchy of Oriente]], [[Principality of Regulus]] and [[Duchy of Andurien]], making the disbandment more of a technicality than an actual event.<ref name="FR:2765FWLMp4"/>

=== The Dark Age ===
The Eighth was re-formed at some point during the [[Dark Age]]. In [[3134]], the Eighth conducted a successful raid on [[Bolan]], followed by a failed attack on the [[Kaiser Systems]] factories on [[Herzberg]]. Caught by surprise by the prototype [[Scourge|SCG-WX1 ''Scourge'']] piloted by [[Samantha Holcomb]], the Eighth was pushed back by Kaiser security.<ref>''Experimental Technical Readout: Caveat Emptor'', p. 15</ref> In February [[3146]] two battalions of the Eighth joined the [[1st Tamarind Regulars|First Tamarind Regulars]] in an attack upon the [[8th Lyran Regulars|Eighth Lyran Regulars]] on [[Zdice]] and [[Abramkovo]]. Following the Lyran Regulars' withdraw, the Eighth then hit [[Kamenz]] and obtained the planetary militia's surrender when their senior command staff were taken out by an artillery strike. A battalion from the Eighth also reinforced the First Tamarind when that unit was nearly driven from [[Bolan]], reversing the tide of battle and securing that historic world for the League. <ref>''Shattered Fortress'', p. 19-20</ref>

==Officers==
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! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Rank
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Name
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Command
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| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the 8th Free Worlds Guards'''
|-
| [[Colonel]]||[[Winnie Garcia]]||[[3145]]-[[3151]]<ref name="FM:3145p115">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 115, "Free Worlds League Military"</ref><ref name=EAp33>''Empire Alone'', pp. 33-34</ref>

|-
|}

==Tactics==
Unknown.

==Composition History==
===3145===
'''Eighth Free Worlds Guards''' (Green/Reliable)<ref name="FM:3145p115"/>
* CO: Colonel Winnie Garcia

'''Eighth Guards Aerospace Wing''' (Regular/Reliable)<ref name="FM:3145p115"/>  
* CO: [[Major#Free Worlds League|Commander]] Benny Henry  

'''3rd Heavy Tank Regiment''' (Green/Questionable)<ref name="FM:3145p115"/>  
* CO: [[Lieutenant Colonel]] Clay Reynolds
   
'''7th Home Infantry Regiment''' (Regular/Fanatical)<ref name="FM:3145p115"/>  
* CO: Lieutenant Colonel Marty Wilkerson  

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Experimental Technical Readout: Caveat Emptor]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Report 2765: FWLM]]''
* ''[[Shattered Fortress]]''
[[Category:Free Worlds League Commands|Free Worlds Guards, 08th]]