Editing Mieselsen's Marauders

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==History==
'''Mieselsen's Marauders''' was one of several [[Age of War]]-era mercenary units hired by the [[Magistracy Armed Forces]] as part of a crash military buildup in the years immediately before the [[Reunification War]]. The mercenary trade fluctuated heavily in the years around the birth of the [[Star League]], with the peacekeeping efforts of the [[Terran Hegemony]] drastically reducing the market for mercenaries, shortly before the mass demobilization of House forces in the wake of the formation of the [[Star League]] glutted the market with former House troops.<ref name="H:RWp59">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 59, "Adam Buquoy"</ref> The [[Magestrix]] of the [[Magistracy of Canopus]] at the time, [[Crystalla Centralla]], knew that war between the [[Star League]] and the Magistracy was inevitable; as a part of her efforts to increase the strength of the MAF, Centralla hired half a dozen mercenary units, including Mieselsen's Marauders.<ref name="H:RWp41">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 41, "Magistracy Armed Forces (MAF)"</ref>

===Reunification War===
When the phony war became a real war in [[2577]], Mieselsen's Marauders were acting as garrison for the Magistracy world of [[Umka]]; as a part of the elaborate shell game played by the commander of the MAF, [[Colonel]] [[Adam Buquoy]], Kincani's Dragoons were moved between worlds several times during the war, deployments intended to keep the SLDF task force guessing as to where MAF units were. Mieselsen's Marauders would garrison several worlds during the war, including [[Marantha]] and [[Megarez]].<ref name="H:RWp94">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 94, "Reunification War: Magistracy of Canopus Front Deployments (2577)"</ref><ref name="H:RWp150a">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 150, "Magistracy of Canopus Front (Jump Off-2583)"</ref>

====Vakarel====
The [[59th Brigade]] assault on [[Vakarel]] was the last of the planetary invasions assigned by [[SLDF Task Force Canopus]] in the first year of the war. The 59th quickly forced the defending Marauders to retreat, but securing the various mining operations within the system's asteroid belts was another matter entirely; forced to navigate within the asteroid fields hampered sensor performance and maneuverability, and the bulk of the combat action fell to the marine detachments aboard the various SLDF [[WarShip|WarShips]] while the majority of the 59th remained aboard their [[DropShip|DropShips]] waiting for the rare call for them to deploy their firepower. Despite the asteroid clearance work being tedious and time-consuming, the 59th Brigade declared that the system had been occupied on the 11th of November [[2577]].<ref name="H:RWp98">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 98, "Butzfleth and Vakarel (October-November 2577)"</ref><ref name="H:RWp150b">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 150, "Magistracy of Canopus Front (Jump-Off-2582)"</ref>

It came as a great shock to the 59th and their [[WarShip]] escorts when the combined [[MAF]] [[1st Fleet (MAF)|1st]] and [[2nd Fleet (MAF)|2nd Fleets]] jumped in-system to launch a counterattack on the 14th of November. This was the first time the MAF navy had attacked an SLDF formation, and the two fleets represented every MAF capital ship not permanently assigned to guarding key worlds. The combined force pressed the SLDF forces hard, striking throughout the system. The SLDF naval flotilla had been operating in small formations to clear the system, and suffered significant losses at the hands of the Canopian navy; one detachment alone lost a [[corvette]] and five [[JumpShip|JumpShips]] as well as two battalions of embarked troops from the 59th. The SLDF WarShips, fighters and DropShips managed to drive the MAF ships off, but not before the Canopians had bloodied [[VII Corps (Star League)|VII Corps]] and the 59th.<ref name="H:RWp98"/>

====Meadowvale & Hindmarsh====
The raid on Meadowvale was a Mieselsen's Marauders. Buquoy had deduced that the SLDF supply lines were vulnerable, partly because the SLDF supply worlds were all located either in the [[Capellan Confederation]] or the [[Free Worlds League]] and [[Captain-General of the Free Worlds League|Captain-General]] [[Marion Marik]] and her advisors assumed that the war would largely be fought on her terms - which meant inside Magistracy space. In early January [[2578]] Buquoy dispatched a sizeable portion of the [[Magistracy Armed Forces]] on missions inside the Free Worlds League; Buquoy led four of the mercenary units under contract to the MAF personally on a strike against the key world of Meadowvale. [[Buquoy's Bandits]] were accompanied by Mieselsen's Marauders, [[Kincani's Dragoons]] and [[Samuelson's Slaughterers]]. Buquoy led his Bandits directly at a huge supply camp named Camp Torrence, a legacy of the [[Second Andurien War]] and the principal supply base for the SLDF on the world. The Bandits struck the camp and then continued to fight, deliberately drawing the defending garrison to them; the Bandits then held the garrison in place for five hours while the other mercenary regiments struck at other SLDF supply camps across the world before all of the mercenary units lifted off and retreated back into Magistracy space. The Meadowvale strike and the others across Free Worlds League space were an almost total success, and not only slowed the SLDF offensive down significantly but would then be emulated several times in the future.<ref name="H:RWp99">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 99, "Meadowvale (January 2578)"</ref>

The Marauders had the chance to conduct another raid in the same style as the Meadowvale raid in [[2580]], one of a series of raids that would continue to pull SLDF resources away from the front line.<ref name="H:RWp150a"/>

====Marantha====
With the MAF largely destroyed at the disastrous ambush on [[Thurrock]] and [[Canopus IV]] captured in May [[2584]], the surviving MAF units were largely pinned in place and the Star League conquest of the Magistracy seemed inevitable. The SLDF task force dispatched the [[56th Brigade]] to conquer [[Marantha]] in the second half of 2584, with support from the [[4th Marik Militia]] and the [[3rd Regulan Hussars]]. The SLDF invasion was fiercely contested by the 1st Canopian Light Horse and Mieselsen's Marauders despite being outnumbered more than two to one, and the resulting battle saw the Marauders effectively destroyed as a combat unit although the 1st Light Horse managed to escape offworld.<ref name="H:RWp105">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 105, "Mopping Up (2584-2588)"</ref><ref name="H:RWp149">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 149, "Magistracy Of Canopus Front (2583-2588)"</ref><ref name="H:RWp151">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 151, "Magistracy Of Canopus Front (2583-2588)"</ref>

==Officers==
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| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of Mieselsen's Marauders'''
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==Tactics==
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==Support==
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==Mercenary Rating==
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==Composition==
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==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''

[[Category:Mercenary Commands]]