Battle of Melissia (3064)

Battle of Melissia (3064)
Part of FedCom Civil War
Start Date From 13 August to 24 November 3064 Planet Melissia Result Jade Falcon's initial victory
Factions
(Attacker) Clan Jade Falcon	(Defender) Federated Commonwealth
Commanders and leaders
Marthe Pryde Timur Malthus	Sharon Bryan Adam Steiner Phelan Kell
Conditions
Normal

The Battle of Melissia (3064) was a Clan Invasion Era military operation that was undertaken by both factions of the Federated Commonwealth against Clan Jade Falcon forces.

Operation Brief

The military operation took place in the planet Melissia.

Operation History

Factions & Known Units Involved in the Conflict

Federated Commonwealth

• Third Alliance Guards
• Ninth Lyran Regulars
• Sixth Donegal Guards
• 14th Donegal Guards
• Hodge Podges
• Storm's Metal Thunder (mercenary)

• • Clan Wolf-in-Exile
• First Wolf Legion
• First Wolf Strike Grenadiers

Clan Jade Falcon

• Turkina Keshik
• Pryde Eyrie Cluster

Origin of Conflict

Melissia, as headquarters of General Sharon Bryan, Margrave of the Melissia Theater, became the place of the Falcon incursion largest battle. She pulled off troops from other planets, as Blue Hole, gathering them on Melissia. She nominated General Adam Steiner as his second-in-command, but all those forces were seriously weakened by the previous combats: the mercenary Storm's Metal Thunder was the most affected, as became annihilated, with only two active BattleMechs arriving to Melissia.

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Lyran Defense

After gathering a massive army, Bryan ordered the creation of massive fortifications, raising a fortress which she called The Rock (Melissia), where expected to blood the Falcons and eventually crushing them. Adam Steiner, veteran of battling the Clans, objected about her strategy, but Bryan ignored his suggestions to fight a mobile defense. Only after long debates obtained the Marshal's approval to create a fall-back position on Chapultepec. The arrival of Colonel Felix Blucher by his own initiative, along with other battalions of militias, didn't please Bryan, but Adam supported him and turned Blucher's forces into his only reserve forces.

The Falcon's Khan, Marthe Pryde, after landing on planet the 13 August with seven clusters, didn't fall for her trap, and Marshal's refusal to made a batchall freed Pryde to use all her forces. The Khan began attacking the defending troops outside the fortress, rotating her units to train them in combat. Adam led the battle in the forests around the Rock, managing to preserve most of his forces, while Bryan, holed on the Rock, obstinately attempted to realize her original plan.

Eventually, the 16 August, the Falcons still hadn't assaulted the Rock's fortifications, but that day, they attacked directly the fortress bypassing its defenses, dropping about two full Clusters of Elementals. The Elementals overwhelmned the base, killing the Marshal. Adam Steiner called back his surviving troops, ordering the retreat.

Retreat

General Steiner, now the Theater's supreme commander, was forced to pull back his forces off Melissia. Only the attack of Blucher's regiment, now dubbed the Hodge Podges broke the Falcon's persecution, allowing Steiner's surviving forces to reach their DropShips and retreat to Chapultepec, but his losses were terrible: the Third Alliance and Sixth Donegal effectively ceased to exist in the battle, with only a handful retreating with his forces. Ironically, the two Mechs of Storm's Metal Thunder survived the fight and were still willing to participate at the future battles against the Falcons.

Wolf Exiled counterattack

Khan Phelan Kell, as part of the lyran Operation Bludgeon, led two of his Clusters to attack Melissia. Timur Malthus, the Falcon's commander on site, after the departure of most of his clan's frontline force, faced him after the Exiles landed the 24 November. During the fight in the Broad Run Delta, Malthus delivered Kell several blows, but eventually the Wolf Khan moved an assault against the falcons from beneath the oceans, surprising them. Defeated, Malthus turned the world to Khan Kell the 13th December, pulling his own troops off a day later.

Bibliography

• FedCom Civil War (sourcebook)
• Operation Audacity (novel)