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Operation Götterdämmerung

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  • to challenge as many mech regiments as possible
  • to cover the rear of the Fedsun => DCMS to busy for a two front wars

The Invasion had 3 parts

1st Attack
Al Hillah => 22nd Skye Rangers (Green)
Basiliano => 24th Arcturan Guards (Regular) + 25th Arcturan Guards (Regular) + Blackhearts (Regular)
Buckminster => 3rd Royal Guards (Elite)
Camlann => 20th Arcturan Guards (Veteran)
Diosd => 14th Donegal Guards (Regular)
Harvest => 4th Donegal Guards (Veteran) + 1st Lyran Regulars (Veteran) + 3rd Lyran Regulars (Regular)
Heiligendreuz => Bad Dream (Veteran)
Hyperion => Waco Rangers (Veteran)
Jabuka => 19th Arcturan Guards (Green)
Kandis => 26th Lyran Guards (Veteran)
Karbala => 10th Lyran Guards (Veteran)
Ko => 3rd Regiment 12 Star Guards (Veteran) + 7th Regiment 12 Star Guards (Green)
Marfik => 4th Skye Rangers (Elite)
Morrtz => 8th Donegal Guards (Veteran)
New Caledonia => 30th Lyran Guards (Regular) + 10th Donegal Guards (Regular)
Orestes => 3rd Donegal Guards (Elite) + 4th Lyran Regulars (Regular)
Ramsau => 23rd Arcturan Guards (Veteran)
Sabik => Barrett's Fusiliers (Veteran)
Shionoha => Gray Death Legion (Veteran)
Vega => 3rd Lyran Guards (Veteran)
Volders => 2nd Narhal's Raiders (Regular)
Weingarten => 15th Lyran Regulars (Regular)
Wheel => Hansen's Roughrlders (Veteran) + 1st Narhal's Raiders (Regular)
Meantime
Altenmarkt => 23rd Arcturan Guards (Veteran)
Aubisson => Gray Death Legion (Veteran)
Buckminster => 20th Arcturan Guards (Veteran)
Cebalrai => 2nd Regiment 12 Star Guards (Regular)
Csesztreg => 30th Lyran Guards (Regular)
Gumium => 3rd Donegal Guards (Elite) + 4th Lyran Regulars (Regular) + 22nd Skye Rangers (Green)
Gunzburg => Bad Dream (Veteran)
Hainfeld => Hansen's Roughrlders (Veteran)
Hohenems => 24th Arcturan Guards (Regular) + 25th Arcturan Guards (Regular)
Karbala => Richard's Panzer Brigade (Veteran)
Kimball II => 4th Skye Rangers (Elite)
Kornephoros => 4th Skye Rangers (Elite)
Kirchbach => 4th Donegal Guards (Veteran) + 3rd Lyran Regulars (Regular) + Winfield's Brigade
Kufstein => Blackhearts (Regular)
Lothan => 10th Lyran Guards (Veteran)
Memmingen => 15th Lyran Regulars (Regular)
Stanzach => 8th Donegal Guards (Veteran) + => 12th Donegal Guards (Green)
The Edge => 10th Donegal Guards (Regular)
Tukayyid => 19th Arcturan Guards (Green)
Utrecht => 14th Donegal Guards (Regular)
Verthandi => 1st Lyran Regulars (Veteran)
Last Step
Altenmarkt => 10th Lyran Guards (Veteran)
Atria => 3rd Regiment 12 Star Guards (Veteran)
Camlann => 4th Lyran Regulars (Regular)
Dehgolan => 19th Arcturan Guards (Green) + Richard's Panzer Brigade (Veteran)
Engadin => 26th Lyran Guards (Veteran)
Imbros III => 7th Regiment 12 Star Guards (Green)
Ligzen => Wlnfleld's Brigade
Mozirje => 3rd Lyran Regulars (Regular)
New Wessex => 3rd Lyran Guards (Veteran)
Radstadt => 8th Donegal Guards (Veteran)
Shirotori => 3rd Donegal Guards (Elite)
Unzmarkt => 24th Arcturan Guards (Regular) + 25th Arcturan Guards (Regular)
Vorarlberg => 12th Donegal Guards (Green)

[1]

During the initial attack phase the LCAF invaded 23 star systems.

Wave 1

Harvest

Attackers: 4th Donegal Guards + 1st Lyran Regulars + 3rd Lyran Regulars + 40 infantry and tank regiments
Defenders:5th Amphigean Light Assault Group + [[Helmut's Hermits] + 20 regiments of infantry and armor.
Ouctome:During the landing the 3 lyran commands sought the disharmony between the two defending units. The defenders retreat of world after several successful attacks of the invaders offworld. [2]

Basiliano

Attackers:McGavin's Regiment Night Stalkers
Defenders:24th Arcturan Guards + 25th Arcturan Guards+ Black Hearts
Ouctome:The fighting for this planet was fierce. Outnumber 3 to 1 the veteran defenders run out of manuver space after repeated raids of the lyran forces. The lightning companies of the Guards pin the DCMS in place, but the Stalkers could retreat with the sacrifice of some heavier machines.[3]

Wheel

Attackers:1st Narhal Raiders + Hansen's Roughriders
Defenders:Tooth of Ymir + ten militia regiments
Ouctome:The defending mercs make a request on to the invaders to settle the battle on the old rules. Warrior against warrior without outside help. After 72 hours of continue fighting the dust layed down and the beated Tooth retreat offworld (they lost 36 machines).[4]

Marfik

Attackers:4th Skye Rangers + 25 infantry and tank regiments
Defenders:11th Legion of Vega + twelve other regiments
Ouctome:The Rangers thougth they had and easy target, but the overconvidence were a failure for the coming fights. The mechforce split from the main force and tried to capture/kill the future Coordinator. Theodore Kurita let them pay dearly for this actions. The conventional forces suffer moderate loses. The Legion captured on lyran Jumpship and jumped to the Vega system.[5]

Moritz

Attackers:8th Donegal Guards
Defenders:5th Sun Zhang Academy Cadre
Ouctome:The fighting was fierce and bitter. The cadre suffer horrendous loses through the invaders. Only 50 percent could retreat offworld after a final battle near the planetary capital Moritz.[6]

Weingarten

Attackers:15th Lyran Regulars
Defenders:1st Sun Zhang Training Cadre
Ouctome:The defenders were split in 3 equal forces. One by one the defenders suffer defeat after defeat. Only the sacrifice of an conventional unit saved some mech of the Cadre, which make it back to Combine space.[6]

Kandis

Attackers:26th Lyran Guards
Defenders:St. Cyr Heavy Assault Group
Ouctome:The mercs retreat offworld after a series of clashes with the invaders. The 2nd battalion of the assault group take the greatest damage.[6]

Karbala

Attackers:10th Lyran Guards
Defenders:Vandelay's Valkyries + 12 infantry and armor regiments
Ouctome:The CO of the Guards think that the mechforces alone could gain victory against normal mercs, but the fight for the planet was brutal. The defenders left the planet defeated. The Invaders took also heavy damage, because the conventional forces weren't in range for support.[6]

New Caledonia

Attackers:30th Lyran Guards + 10th Donegal Guards
Defenders:2nd An Ting Legion
Ouctome:The light machines of the Legion were trapped in near the planetary capital, because the invaders landed south and north of the defenders. The lyrans give their best and the Legion left 2 destroyed companies on the planet.[6]

Al Hillah[7]

Attackers:22nd Skye Rangers [8]
Defenders:local militia
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Heiligendreuz[7]

Attackers:Bad Dream[8]
Defenders:local militia
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Camlann[7]

Attackers:20th Arcturan Guards [8]
Defenders:local militia
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Diosd[7]

Attackers:14th Donegal Guards[8]
Defenders:local militia
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Hyperion[7]

Attackers:Waco Rangers[8]
Defenders:local militia
Outcome:The milita was easily crushed by the mercs.

Jabuka[7]

Attackers:19th Arcturan Guards[7]
Defenders:5th Rasalhague Regulars[7]
Ouctome:The CO of the defenders killed himself, after a minor defeat from the invading forces which was commanded by a women. His second in command was a bad tactitcan that the unit must leave the planet after a short series of battles.

Ko[7]

Attackers:3rd Regiment + 7th Regiment (12th Star Guards)[8]
Defenders:local militia
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Orestes[7]

Attackers:4th Lyran Regulars
Defenders:local militia
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Ramsau[7]

Attackers:23rd Arcturan Guards
Defenders:local militia
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Sabik[7]

Attackers:Barett's Fusiliers[8]
Defenders:local militia
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Shaula[7]

Attackers:conventionel LCAF forces[8]
Defenders:local militia
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Shionoha[7]

Attackers:Gray Death Legion
Defenders:local militia
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Volders[7]

Attackers:2nd Narhal's Raiders[8]
Defenders:local militia
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Buckminster

Attackers:3rd Royal Guards and the 39 regiments of the RCT + 20th Arcturan Guards (reinfor.)
Defenders:2nd Sword of Light regiment + 22 of the best infantry and tank regiments + 6th Arkab Legion (reinfor.)
Ouctome:THis planet was important for both sides. The DCMS could lost a prefecture world to the enemy and the lyrans could get an opportunity to catch important people/documents with devasting effect for the dragon.
The defenders include some of the best forces available to the DCMS and the invaders were also carefully selected in form of the 3rd Royal Guards of the LCAF. The Guards used some unorthodx tactics (including the use of naval vessel) to suprise this elite regiment. The 2nd Sword was nearly anhillated when they were trapped in a mountain range. 6 Fortress - Class dropship in the back and the 3rd Guards in the front were to much for many soldiers. The defenders lost during the battle many good soldiers. The effectiv use of the Dropship-squadron were repeated several times. The DCMS learned to fade away with the incming Drophsips. The 6th Arkab Legion which arrived as reinforcment suffer from the landing constant loses. The 20th Arcturan Guards were send to support the 3rd Guards.
The DMCS retreat back to a large urban center. In preperation of an assault the set traps at every possible place. The 3rd Guards make a final assault but the Legion await them. After losing one third in bitter street fighting the 2nd Sword breakout overwhelmed the Lyran which run to the dropships. The DCMS had secured Buckminister once more.[9]

Vega

Attackers:3rd Lyran Guards
Defenders:2nd Legion of Vega + 14th Legion of Vega + 40 tank and infantry regiments
Ouctome:The battle for Vega changed with the arrival of Theodore Kurita. He lead the 2 Legion of Vega units after a series of victories to that point, where the overall commander of the Lyran Guards make a decision to retreat before completely destroyed by the inspirit defenders.[10]

Follow Up Invasion

During the first phase of Operation Götterdämmerung the DCMS were suprised by the ferocity of the invading LCAF. From the initial 23 system 21 were conquered. The Archon decided to use the swing to push further into the Combine with the goal that the draconian High Command must use their reserve units to hold the line. The forces were exhausted from the continued fighting and old problems rose again. The DCMS had recoverd from the inital shock and started also single counterattacks. [11]


Csesztreg[8]

Attackers:30th Lyran Guards[8]
Defenders:
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Lothan[8]

Attackers:10th Lyran Guards[8]
Defenders:
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Tukayyid[8]

Attackers:19th Arcturan Guards[8]
Defenders:
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Buckminister[11]

Attackers:20th Arcturan Guards[8]
Defenders:
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Hohenems[11]

Attackers:24th Arcturan Guards[8] + 25th Arcturan Guards[8]
Defenders:
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

The Edge[11]

Attackers:10th Donegal Guards[8]
Defenders:
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Aubisson[11]

Attackers:Gray Death Legion[8]
Defenders:
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Hainfeld[11]

Attackers:Hansen's Roughriders[8]
Defenders:
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Gumium[11]

Attackers:3rd Donegal Guards[8] + 22nd Skye Rangers[8]+4th Lyran Regulars[8]
Defenders:
Outcome:Conquered by the LCAF

Kirchbach[12]

Attackers:4th Donegal Guards[8] + 3rd Lyran Guards[8] + Winfield's Briade[8] + Tyr Regiment[8]
Defenders:5th Amphigean Light Assault Group + 17th Rasalhague Regulars + Helmut Hermit's
Outcome:The presence of the Tyr create riots by the local population and the overwhleming numbers of the invader were the other factor that forced the DCMS to evacuated all military personal from the planet. All defending units suffer defeats.

Verthandi[8]

Attackers:1st Lyran Regular[8]
Defenders:
Outcome:Conquered by the LCAF


Memmingen[8]

Attackers:15th Lyran Regular[8]
Defenders:
Outcome:Conquered by the LCAF


[8]


Kimball II[12]

Attackers:4th Skye Rangers[8]
Defenders:
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Atria[12]

Attackers:
Defenders:
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Imbros III[12]

Attackers:
Defenders:
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Kufstein

Attackers:Blackhearts
Defenders:
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Karbala

Attackers:Richard's Panzer Brigade
Defenders:
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Cebalai

Attackers:2nd Regiment - 12th Star Guards
Defenders:
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

DCMS Conterattack

Nondi Steiner was the overall commander during the follow up invasion and pressed her troops further with the goal to destroy more DCMS command and to conquer more territory from the Dragon. In that situation the LCAF troops doesn't could prepare a possible conterattack. The DCMS started their campaign in the late 3028/early 3029. [13]

The Edge[13]

Attackers:25th Rasalhague Regulars
Defenders:10th Donegal Guards
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Stanzach[13]

Attackers:9th Pesht Regulars + 13th Rasalhague Regulars
Defenders:12th Donegal Guards
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Utrecht[13]

Attackers:7th Sword of light + 20 conventionel regiments
Defenders:14th Donegal Guards
Ouctome:Conquered by the LCAF

Kornephoros[13]

Attackers:17th Benjamin Regulars
Defenders:4th Skye Rangers (2nd Battalion)
Ouctome:The 2nd Battalion hold their ground even against an superior enemy.

Kimball II

Attackers:3rd Dierons Regulars
Defenders:4th Skye Rangers (1st + 3rd Battalions)
Ouctome:The 3 Dieron Regulars lifted from Kessel with the goal to recapture Kimball from House Steiner. The inferior 4th Skye Rangers retreat after some brutal clashes with the DCMS unit offworld.[11]

Sabik[13]

Attackers:Kingstons Caballeros (DCMS)
Defenders:Barett's Fusiliers (LCAF)
Ouctome:The Caballeros returned to Sabik after a short of time of rest and refit on Moore. The defending Fusiliers whre suprise about the fighting strength of the Caballeros. After losing two thirds of its initial strength the Fusilers retreat off world

La Blon[13]

Attackers:4th Proserpina Hussars + 18 conventionel regiments
Defenders:local militia (including 18 mechs + 20 conventionel regiments)
Ouctome: The DCMS discover a breach at the LCAF front an used it for the successful capture of LA Blon.

The LCAF was not prepared for defeniv operation but could capture Unzmarkt, Ueda, Imbros III, Atria, Morzirje and Skokie. Because the DCMS captured Vega, Altenmarkt, La Blon, Cebalrai and Sabik. [13]

Continued Fightings

During the the short break at the war the LCAF correct some of the mistakes. The DCMS defended 7 worlds becaus the LCAF High Command tried to conquer 5 more worlds. [14]

The Edge[14] continued

Attackers:10th Donegal Guards[13]
Defenders:25th Rasalhague Regulars[13]
'Ouctome:

Liezen[14]

Attackers:4th Donegal Guards[13]
Defenders:Altenmarkt Militia[13]
Ouctome:The Milita go in the underground when the Brigade captured all major cities on the planet. With the arrival of another veteran unit for the LCAF side the numbers changed to the invader. The Altenmarkt Milita headed offworld and the resistance movement collapsed.

Engadin[14]

Attackers:26th Lyran Guards[13] + Blackhearts (reinforc.)[15]
Defenders:St. Cyr Heavy Assault Group[13] + 5th Sun Zhang Academy Cadre[13]
Ouctome:The Lyran Guards give it best to crush all resistance on this planet, but the ongoing campaign against the defenders took tis tale. With fresh troops and badly needed supplies the invaders force the 5th Cadre to surrender and the mercs offplanet.[15]


Stanzach[14]

Attackers:12th Donegal Guards[8] + 8th Donegal Guards[13] + 12th Donegal Guards[13]
Defenders:9th Pesht Regulars [13]+ 13th Rasalhague Regulars[13]
Outcome:

Gunzburg[14]

Attackers:Bad Dream (LCAF) [8] + Mobile Fire (LCAF) [13]
Defenders:22nd Rasalhague Regulars [16]
Outcome:The defending 22nd Regulars went underground when the 2 lyran mercanery commands arrived at the planet. For several weeks both sides played hide and seek. The commander of the Mobile Fire unit send a message to the Bad Dream command that some of his solders get sick from a local disease. The Regulars decode the message successful. Then the DCMS unit tried to use the situation to it advantage but it was a trap. The 22nd surrender and the CO killed himself by a cyanide capsule because of the dishonor. [16]

Utrecht[14]

Attackers:14th Donegal Guards[8]
Defenders:7th Sword of Light[13]
Outcome:

Shirotori[14]

Attackers:3rd Donegal Guards[13]
Defenders:1st Proserpina Hussars[13]
Ouctome:

Buckminster continued[14]

Attackers:3rd Royal Guards[13] + 20th Arcturan Guards [13]
Defenders:2nd Sword of Light[13] + 6th Arkab Legion [13]
Outcome:

Conclusion

The Lyrans had many things going for them. They had the Rasalhague rebels fomenting insurrection and providing them with intelligence. They had Takashi Kurita's distraction with Wolf's Dragoons. They used these advantages to push the Draconis Combine back along a very broad front. They took a number of traditionally Rasalhagian worlds from the Combine, though their successes did not match what the Federated Suns managed to achieve against the Capellans.

Lyran military doctrine was significantly different than that of the Armed Forces of the Federated Suns. Whereas the AFFS executed several different "waves," effectively leapfrogging each other, the Lyrans used their wall of assault 'Mechs and pushed into the Draconis Combine on a very broad front. This was not a tactic that had served the Lyrans well in the past, but circumstances conspired to make it a feasible strategy for the 4th War.

The Lyran offensive was stalled when the Combine struck back and scored a couple of worlds that put them within one jump of Skye, a regional capital. Unwilling to continue pressing forward, but unable to reclaim their lost worlds, the Lyran assault ground to a halt.

References

  1. ↑ NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1p.
  2. ↑ NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1p.46
  3. ↑ NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1p.47
  4. ↑ NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1p.48
  5. ↑ NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1p.48-49
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1p.50
  7. ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1p.51
  8. ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 8.12 8.13 8.14 8.15 8.16 8.17 8.18 8.19 8.20 8.21 8.22 8.23 8.24 8.25 8.26 8.27 8.28 8.29 8.30 8.31 8.32 8.33 8.34 8.35 8.36 NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1p.44-45
  9. ↑ NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1p. 52
  10. ↑ NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1 p.53
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1 p. 59 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "NAISVol1p59" defined multiple times with different content
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1 p. 60
  13. ↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 13.11 13.12 13.13 13.14 13.15 13.16 13.17 13.18 13.19 13.20 13.21 13.22 13.23 13.24 13.25 13.26 NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1 p. 61
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 14.6 14.7 14.8 NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2 p.61
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2 p.62
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2 p.63

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