McNally Guard
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| McNally Guard | |
| Affiliation | House McNally |
| Parent Command | |
The McNally Guard was the personal force of Count Radcliffe McNally and assigned to defend its holdings on Hall.
History[edit]
When the mercenary unit known as Burton's Brigade was commissioned to support Count Radcliffe McNally of Hall, who needed a unit to defend his holdings on the world from William Baranov and his Republican Guard, both units coordinated their defenses.[1][2]
The Brigade's first contract proved to be a decade-long quagmire that nearly consumed the entire unit. Hall was being contested by no less than three separate factions, revolving around Count McNally, Emperor Baranov, and a rebel force built around Cater's Cohorts, a splinter faction that had broken away from Baranov's forces. Baranov's forces swiftly claimed the upper hand, seizing the planetary HPG, the primary spaceport and the planetary capital, and a few months after the arrival of the Brigade Cater's Cohorts were broken and shattered. With the Cohorts gone, the campaign for control of Hall reached a precarious balance, with the Brigade being involved in six years of sporadic fighting; the Brigade received support from McNally's personal forces and other minor mercenary units like Critchley's Cavaliers that McNally managed to hire, but not enough to break that balance. The stalemate finally tipped in 3065, when Baranov managed to hire the Stealthy Tigers; with the Brigade and McNally's forces heavily outnumbered and the Tigers freshly rebuilt the struggle quickly intensified, with McNally and his forces resorting to a guerrilla campaign, aided by the survivors of the Cohorts and various other factions opposed to Baranov.[1]
The guerrilla war culminated in a direct attack on the planetary capital, Harney, in mid-3066, by the Brigade and the other guerrilla forces; although the attack initially went in favor of the Brigade, a combat drop directly into the city by the Stealth Tigers destroyed the majority of the McNally Guard and killed Count McNally, leaving the Brigade heavily outnumbered. The Brigade fell back, causing Critchley's Cavaliers to be overwhelmed and destroyed; the Brigade was saved from destruction itself by the arrival of the Third Dismal Disinherited, one of the commands affiliated with the Allied Mercenary Command assembled by Wolf's Dragoons, who had arrived on Hall to investigate suspicions that the Word of Blake were supporting Baranov.[1]
Burton's Brigade absorbed some of the survivors of the Cavaliers and McNally's Guard and Captain Burton linked her command with the Dismal Disinherited, as the Brigade was desperately in need of relief; this officially affiliated the Brigade with the AMC and forced Baranov to break off his pursuit of the Brigade to avoid drawing more powerful members of the AMC into the fight. Baranov responded to the change in circumstances by making a surprise call for Hall to be admitted into the Free Worlds League, prompting an attack on Harney in late 3067 by the Dismal Disinherited and Burton's Brigade in an effort to expose Blakist machinations behind Baranov's change in direction. The attack cost the Brigade all of its commissioned officers - including Captain Burton - with the exception of Captain Thanh Bondanza and reduced the command down to a combat strength of just six 'Mechs and two tanks, leading to an offer from the commander of the Third Dismal Disinherited to absorb the remains of the Brigade, in part to make up for some of the Dismal Disinherited's losses.[1]
Officers[edit]
| Rank | Name | Command | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commanding Officers of the McNally Guard | |||
Tactics[edit]
Unknown.