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The '''Stealthy Tigers''' were a mercenary unit formed during the [[Third Succession War]].  
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The '''Stealthy Tigers''' were a mercenary unit formed during the [[Third Succession War]] and were destroyed in the [[Jihad]].
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
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The '''Stealthy Tigers''' were formed in [[2874]] by the [[Duke of Tamar]] who was frightened by a [[Draconis Combine]] offensive and by the poor performances of the [[Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces]]. To avoid the old laws against individual nobles purchasing heavier BattleMechs, the unit was officially a mercenary unit.<ref name=HS66>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 66</ref>
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The Stealthy Tigers were formed in [[2874]] by the [[Duke of Tamar]] who was frightened by a [[Draconis Combine]] offensive and by the poor performances of the [[Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces]]. To avoid the old laws against individual nobles purchasing heavier BattleMechs, the unit was officially a mercenary unit.<ref name=HS66>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 66</ref>
  
 
The Stealthy Tigers were named after two famous Lyran units destroyed in the [[Second Succession War]], the [[Stealths]] and the [[Tamar Tigers]], and were an attempt to recapture the effective weaponry and tactics of those units. Formed to defend their homeworld, [[Tamar]], they operated under a yearly contract with the LCAF.<ref name=HS66/>
 
The Stealthy Tigers were named after two famous Lyran units destroyed in the [[Second Succession War]], the [[Stealths]] and the [[Tamar Tigers]], and were an attempt to recapture the effective weaponry and tactics of those units. Formed to defend their homeworld, [[Tamar]], they operated under a yearly contract with the LCAF.<ref name=HS66/>
  
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In March [[2915]], the Stealthy Tigers were part of the defence of Tamar when the [[DCMS]] invaded with three regiments. After seven months of combat, the [[DCMS]] units withdrew.<ref>''Technical Readout: 3026, Revised Edition'' p.8</ref><ref>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 70</ref> The unit would repel raids on Tamar for the next 60 years.<ref>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 71</ref>
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In March [[2915]], the Stealthy Tigers were part of the defense of Tamar when the [[DCMS]] invaded with three regiments. After seven months of combat, the [[DCMS]] units withdrew.<ref>''Technical Readout: 3026, Revised Edition'', p. 8</ref><ref>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 70</ref> The unit would repel raids on Tamar for the next 60 years.<ref>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 71</ref> By the Third Succession War's end in [[3025]], they were stationed on the Marik front on [[Loric]].<ref name=HS119/>
  
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During the [[Fourth Succession War]] the unit began the war deployed on the Marik front at [[Loric]] and was later moved to [[Giausar]] in October [[3028]] as part of the LCAF's response to the [[Free Worlds League]]'s [[Operation DAGGER]].<ref>''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1'', p. 63, "Overview"</ref>
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During the [[Fourth Succession War]] the unit began the war still deployed on [[Loric]] and was later moved to [[Giausar]] in October [[3028]] as part of the LCAF's response to the [[Free Worlds League]]'s [[Operation DAGGER]].<ref>''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1'', p. 63: "Overview"</ref>
  
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In the [[3040]]s the unit signed a contract with the [[FWLM]] and were loaned to the [[CCAF]] during [[Operation Guerrero]]. The Tigers fought with the [[Always Faithful]] but failed in the conquest attempt of [[Caph]]. They remained in the [[Chaos March]] and participated in the invasions of [[Carver V]] and [[Hall]]. The Tigers fought against [[Critchley's Cavaliers]], when their employee launched an invasion for [[William Baranov]]. [[Burton's Brigade]] were withdrawn by the [[Allied Mercenary Command]] and left the Cavaliers as the only opposing force. They must surrender after a failed attempt to overrun the Tigers.<ref name=MS61>''Mercenaries Supplemental'', p. 61, "Stealthy Tigers Unit Profile"</ref>
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By [[3050]], the unit was in service to the [[Free Worlds League]]. It had refused to re-sign with the LCAF after the formation & Lyran recognition of the [[Free Rasalhague Republic]], part of which comprised of former [[Tamar Pact]] worlds, and the abortive [[War of 3039]]. It was loaned to the [[Capellan Confederation]] during [[Operation GUERRERO]] in [[3057]]. The Tigers fought alongside [[Always Faithful]] in the attempted conquest of [[Caph]] which ended up in stalemate after battles with [[Lindon's Battalion]] and [[Gustafson's Grenadiers]].<ref>''Chaos March'' pp. 30–31</ref><ref name=MS61>''Mercenaries Supplemental'', p. 61: "Stealthy Tigers Unit Profile"</ref> Caph was ultimately secured by [[Word of Blake]] forces.<ref name=MS61/>
  
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The group divided in Hall, thanks to the presence of two Blakist agents, who take command of the unit, with the majority of the group joining Blakist forces. The technicians also divided, fighting between them. The Raiders and his people managed to board the DropShip [[Tigris]] and escape.<ref>''Embers Of War'' p. 300</ref>
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They took on more contracts in the [[Chaos March]], participating in the pacification of [[Carver V]] and later accepting a contract with "Emperor" [[William Baranov]] on [[Hall]] in [[3065]]. There, the Tigers fought against [[Burton's Brigade]] and [[Critchley's Cavaliers]] who were fighting for Baranov's rival, [[Count]] [[Radcliffe McNally]]. In mid-[[3066]], The Stealthy Tigers repulsed an assault on the capital [[Harney]] by NcNally's forces by way of a combat drop. Burton's Brigade fell back from the overwhelming fire which enabled the Tigers to outflank the Cavaliers who would surrender the next day.<ref>''Mercenaries Supplemental II'', p. 27: "Burton's Brigade: In With Both Feet"</ref><ref name=MS61/>
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Only a company escaped, joining the AMC forces in retreat to Outreach.  His later destiny remains unknown, but if they joined the Third Regiment of Dismal Disinhirited, they must have died later, with all the unit.  
 
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The rest of the group, implicitly the only one to retain the name of Stealthy Tigers, stay in Hall, joining the Word of Blake army.<ref>''Embers Of War'' p. 301</ref>  
 
  
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The unit remained with the [[Word of Blake]] during the Jihad. They were accused of having executed [[AMC]] POWs and [[FWL]] troops in 3067 on Hall. <ref> ''Mercenaries Supplemental Update'' p. 18</ref> The unit was still on Hall in [[3071]].<ref>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'' p. 110</ref>
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The unit would be changed forever in October [[3067]] due to the presence of two Blakist [[ Sixth of June]] agents, twins Mason and Kirsten Markoja, who had infiltrated the unit and managed to take control by secretly killing the commanding officer and driving a wedge between the elite Raiders and the rest of the regiment. The Raiders found out about the Markojas' links to Word of Blake and during a battle between the [[Fourth Oriente Hussars]], Baranov's Republican Guards, the Stealthy Tigers and units of the [[Allied Mercenary Command]] ([[Third Dismal Disinherited]] and Burton's Brigade), the leader of the Raiders, Captain Ezra Payne, broadcast his accusation of treason to the regiment. This set off a battle between the Stealthy Tigers with one siding with the Raiders and the other with the Markojas. It would not be limited to just combat troops, the techs also would split and start fighting at their base. Kirsten Markoja was killed in a duel with Payne, who was badly injured ejecting from his 'Mech but most of the Raiders were killed. Payne, the remnants of his company, the surviving Raiders and techs who had sided with him escaped from Hall on the Stealthy Tigers Dropship ''[[Tigris]]''.<ref name=EoW/>
  
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During [[Operation SCOUR]], the Word of Blake responded to the loss of [[Marcus]] by dispatching a combination of hired mercenary (in the form of the [[Canned Heat]], [[Clifton's Rangers]], [[The Furies]] and the Stealthy Tigers<ref name="TCp164"/>) to retake Marcus on the 11th of August. The coalition forces<ref name="J:FRp57"/> including the [[20th Marik Militia]]<ref name="JHS:Tp59+">''Jihad Hot Spots: Terra'', p. 59-60, "Chaos Eternal: Blood And Fury"</ref> had no choice but to retreat to the nearby world of [[Dieudonne]].<ref name="J:FRp57">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 57, "The Jihad in Review"</ref> Two teams of ComStar affiliated [[Blake's Wrath]] units destroyed the uranium mines to deny them to the Word of Blake. The mercenaries the Blakists had sent were not concerned with limiting collateral damage, and when word of the Coalition's conquest of [[Terra]] reached them, the natives (aided by ComStar) overthrew their mercenary overseers, though some of them had already escaped when the fall of Terra news had arrived.<ref name="TCp164">''Total Chaos'', p. 164-165, "MARCUS"</ref>
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The remainder of unit stayed on Hall under Mason Markoja and would be accused of executing [[AMC]] POWs and [[FWL]] troops.<ref>''Mercenaries Supplemental Update'', p. 18</ref> They were still there in [[3071]]<ref>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 110</ref> and would serve under the Word of Blake for the rest of the [[Jihad]].
  
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It was confirmed by [[3081]] that the Stealthy Tigers had been wiped out during the [[Jihad]].<ref name="J:FRp120">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 120, "The Condemned"</ref>
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In August [[3077]], the Stealthy Tigers were part of a mercenary task force under the command of Pierre Grandin of [[Grandin's Crusaders]] to retake [[Marcus]] during [[Operation SCOUR]].<ref name=TCp164>''Total Chaos'', pp. 164–165: "MARCUS"</ref> By this time, the unit was less than a battalion in strength.<ref> This is surmised by the fact that the Grandin’s Crusaders were battalion strength and was given command due to being the largest unit. See ''Total Chaos'', pp. 156, 173</ref> The task force trapped the planet's garrison, the [[Twentieth Marik Militia]] in the capital city of Zotikos, with only a few survivors joining the arriving [[Com Guards|Com Guard]] Fourth Army.<ref name=TCp164/> The task force also captured the valuable uranium mines on the continent of Wahryn with the Fourth Army failing twice trying to recapture them.<ref name=TCp164/> Com Guard [[Blake's Wrath]] special forces units then blew up the mine network, denying their use to the Word.<ref name=TCp164/> The Coalition forces then retreated to the nearby world of [[Dieudonné]].<ref name="J:FRp57">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 57: "The Jihad in Review"</ref>  The Blakist troops would hold the planet until news of [[Terra]]'s recapture reached the system. Many mercenaries fled while the rest failed to quell a revolution. Those that were captured were executed.<ref name=TCp164/> It is not known if any Stealthy Tigers were amongst them but it was confirmed that the Stealthy Tigers had been wiped out by [[3081]].<ref name="J:FRp120">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 120: "The Condemned"</ref>
  
 
==Officers==
 
==Officers==
 
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| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the Stealthy Tigers'''
 
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|[[Colonel]]||[[Bob Vermithrax]]||[[3025]]<ref>House Steiner p.119</ref>
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|[[Colonel]]||[[Bob Vermithrax]]||[[3025]]<ref name=HS119/>
 
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| Colonel||[[Yuri Rauschenbusch]]||3030s - [[3067]]<ref name=MS61/>
 
| Colonel||[[Yuri Rauschenbusch]]||3030s - [[3067]]<ref name=MS61/>
 
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| Colonel||[[Mason Markoja]]||3067
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| Colonel||[[Mason Markoja]]||3067<ref name=EoW>''Embers of War''</ref>
 
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==Raiders==
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Within the unit was an exclusive group of MechWarriors called Raiders. They were regarded as the elite of the Tigers. Membership was by invitation only and had to be unanimous amongst all current Raiders. It was earned by a MechWarrior "doing their job well."<ref name=EoWp9/> Raiders were spread throughout the regiment but their numbers were small. In 3067, there were only 17 Raiders.<ref>''Embers Of War'', p. 232</ref>
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Raiders wore a pin on their uniform lapel. The pin was black enamel with a white tiger's head in profile.<ref name=EoWp9>''Embers Of War'', p. 9</ref>
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By custom only a Raider could become the regiment's commander. Once promoted, the commander would, also by custom, cease being an active Raider but would still wear the pin.<ref>''Embers Of War'', p. 118</ref>
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After the events of October [[3067]] the Raiders were no longer active in the unit as they were either all dead or had fled the regiment.<ref>''Embers Of War'', p. 314</ref>
  
 
==Tactics==
 
==Tactics==
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The unit can harass a unit with high speed attacks and retreats.<ref name=MS61/>  
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===3067===
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The Unit fielded many fast medium-class 'Mechs with a few heavies serving as backup. The unit would harass an enemy unit with high speed attacks and retreats.<ref name=MS61/>
  
 
==Support==
 
==Support==
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The unit possesses enough [[DropShip]]s to transport the entire command.  
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===3067===
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The Tigers' technical staff can handle the unit's routine maintenance, but lack the resources to rebuild equipment a battalion worth.<ref name=MS61/>
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The unit possessed enough [[DropShip]]s to transport the entire command.
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The Tigers' technical staff could handle the unit's routine maintenance, but lacked the resources to rebuild the battalion's worth of damaged 'Mechs they had.<ref name=MS61/>
  
 
==Composition History==
 
==Composition History==
 
===2874===
 
===2874===
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The Unit was a reinforced regiment of three battalions of light 'Mechs and a battalion of assault 'Mechs<ref name = HS66/>
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'''Stealthy Tigers''' (Reinforced Regiment)<ref name=HS66/>
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: Note:  At this point in time the unit was stationed on [[Tamar]].
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:Three light 'Mech battalions
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:One assault 'Mech battalion
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:Note:  At this point in time the unit was stationed on [[Tamar]].
  
 
===3025===
 
===3025===
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'''Stealthy Tigers''' (Regiment/Regular/Reliable)<ref>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'' p. 119</ref>
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'''Stealthy Tigers''' (Regiment/Regular/Reliable)<ref name=HS119>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 119</ref>
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:CO: Bob Vermithrax
 
:Note: At this point in time the unit was stationed on [[Loric]].
 
:Note: At this point in time the unit was stationed on [[Loric]].
  
 
===3050===
 
===3050===
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'''Stealthy Tigers''' (Regiment/Regular/Reliable) <ref name=20yup57>''20-Year Update'', p. 57</ref>  
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'''Stealthy Tigers''' (Regiment/Regular/Reliable)<ref name=20yup57>''20 Year Update'', p. 57</ref>
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: Note:  At this point in time the unit was stationed on [[Ventabren]].
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:CO: Colonel Yuri Rauschenbusch<ref name=MS61/>
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:Note:  At this point in time the unit was stationed on [[Ventabren]].
  
 
===3059===
 
===3059===
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'''Stealthy Tigers ''' (Regiment/Regular/Reliable) <ref name = FMMercsp111 >'' Field Manual: Mercenaries'', p. 111</ref>
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'''Stealthy Tigers ''' (Regiment/Regular/Reliable)<ref name=FMMercsp111 >''Field Manual: Mercenaries'', p. 111</ref>
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* CO: Colonel Yuri Rauschenbusch  
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:CO: Colonel Yuri Rauschenbusch
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: Note: At this point in time the unit was stationed on [[Caph]].  
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:Note: At this point in time the unit was stationed on [[Caph]].
  
 
===3067===
 
===3067===
 
'''Stealthy Tigers''' (Two [[Battalion]]s/Regular/Reliable)<ref name=MS61/>
 
'''Stealthy Tigers''' (Two [[Battalion]]s/Regular/Reliable)<ref name=MS61/>
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* CO: [[Colonel]] Yuri Rauschenbusch
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:CO: [[Colonel]] Yuri Rauschenbusch
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** XO/1st Battalion (Panther Battalion): [[Major]] [[Mason Markoja]] <ref name = EoW>''Embers of War''</ref>
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:XO: [[Major]] [[Mason Markoja]]
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** 2nd Battalion (Leopard Battalion): Major [[Kirsten Markoja]] <ref name = EoW/>
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:'''First "Panther" Battalion '''
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** Independent / Training Company (Jaguar Company): [[Captain]] [[Ezra Payne]] <ref name = EoW/>
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::CO: [[Major]] Mason Markoja
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:'''Second "Leopard" Battalion'''
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::CO: Major [[Kirsten Markoja]]
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:'''Jaguar Company''' (Independent / Training Company)<ref name=EoW/>
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::CO: [[Captain]] [[Ezra Payne]]
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:Note: At this point in time the unit was stationed on [[Hall]].
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==
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* The Unit fields many fast medium-class 'Mechs with a few heavies serving as backup.<ref name=MS61/>
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* ''Field Manual: Lyran Alliance'' has the Stealthy Tigers return to swear allegiance to the Duchess of Tamar on [[Porrima]] in 3062. As there is no mention of this anywhere else, this has probably been [[retconned]].
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* There is a subgroup of MechWarriors inside the Tigers: the "Raiders". They are the elite of the Tigers. Every one has a Raider pin, one than cannot be bought, only earned by doing their job.<ref>''Embers Of War'' p. 13</ref> For the Tigers it was the unofficial tradition than only a Raider could become the regimental's commander. The Raiders aren't in a single unit, they're distributes along all the battalions of the unit. Ezra Payne was his unofficial leader, and everyone in the unit expected he became the successor of the colonel. However, the blakist moles in the unit turn almost all the regiment against the Raiders, painting them as traitors, killing most of them.<ref>''Embers Of War'' p. 301</ref>
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* In ''Technical Readout: Prototypes'', the Stealthy Tigers were mentioned as being one of the first mercenary units to purchase the WLF-2H [[Wolfhound]] after it entered production in [[3083]]. There is no other mention of the unit in any other [[Dark Age]] publications, so it can be assumed that this is an error.
  
 
==Gallery==
 
==Gallery==
 
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==References==
 
==References==
 
<references />
 
<references />
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:'''Note:''' Page numbers from ''Embers of War'' are from the Kindle edition and may not match the printed edition.
  
 
==Bibliography==
 
==Bibliography==
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* ''[[Chaos March]]''
 
* ''[[Embers of War]]'' (novel)
 
* ''[[Embers of War]]'' (novel)
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* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]'' (sourcebook)
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* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
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* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]'' (sourcebook)
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* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
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* ''[[House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)]]'' (sourcebook)
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* ''[[House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)]]''
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* ''[[Mercenaries Supplemental]]'' (field manual)
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* ''[[Mercenaries Supplemental]]''
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* ''[[Technical Readout: 3026, Revised Edition]]'' (sourcebook)
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* ''[[Mercenaries Supplemental II]]''
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* ''[[Mercenaries Supplemental Update ]]''
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* ''[[NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1]]''
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* ''[[Technical Readout: 3026, Revised Edition]]''
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* ''[[Total Chaos]]''
  
 
[[Category:Mercenary Commands|Stealthy Tigers]]
 
[[Category:Mercenary Commands|Stealthy Tigers]]

Latest revision as of 18:18, 30 April 2022

Stealthy Tigers logo.svg
Stealthy Tigers
Formed 2874
Disbanded c. 3081
Affiliation Mercenary
Parent Command Independent

The Stealthy Tigers were a mercenary unit formed during the Third Succession War and were destroyed in the Jihad.

History[edit]

The Stealthy Tigers were formed in 2874 by the Duke of Tamar who was frightened by a Draconis Combine offensive and by the poor performances of the Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces. To avoid the old laws against individual nobles purchasing heavier BattleMechs, the unit was officially a mercenary unit.[1]

The Stealthy Tigers were named after two famous Lyran units destroyed in the Second Succession War, the Stealths and the Tamar Tigers, and were an attempt to recapture the effective weaponry and tactics of those units. Formed to defend their homeworld, Tamar, they operated under a yearly contract with the LCAF.[1]

In March 2915, the Stealthy Tigers were part of the defense of Tamar when the DCMS invaded with three regiments. After seven months of combat, the DCMS units withdrew.[2][3] The unit would repel raids on Tamar for the next 60 years.[4] By the Third Succession War's end in 3025, they were stationed on the Marik front on Loric.[5]

During the Fourth Succession War the unit began the war still deployed on Loric and was later moved to Giausar in October 3028 as part of the LCAF's response to the Free Worlds League's Operation DAGGER.[6]

By 3050, the unit was in service to the Free Worlds League. It had refused to re-sign with the LCAF after the formation & Lyran recognition of the Free Rasalhague Republic, part of which comprised of former Tamar Pact worlds, and the abortive War of 3039. It was loaned to the Capellan Confederation during Operation GUERRERO in 3057. The Tigers fought alongside Always Faithful in the attempted conquest of Caph which ended up in stalemate after battles with Lindon's Battalion and Gustafson's Grenadiers.[7][8] Caph was ultimately secured by Word of Blake forces.[8]

They took on more contracts in the Chaos March, participating in the pacification of Carver V and later accepting a contract with "Emperor" William Baranov on Hall in 3065. There, the Tigers fought against Burton's Brigade and Critchley's Cavaliers who were fighting for Baranov's rival, Count Radcliffe McNally. In mid-3066, The Stealthy Tigers repulsed an assault on the capital Harney by NcNally's forces by way of a combat drop. Burton's Brigade fell back from the overwhelming fire which enabled the Tigers to outflank the Cavaliers who would surrender the next day.[9][8]

The unit would be changed forever in October 3067 due to the presence of two Blakist Sixth of June agents, twins Mason and Kirsten Markoja, who had infiltrated the unit and managed to take control by secretly killing the commanding officer and driving a wedge between the elite Raiders and the rest of the regiment. The Raiders found out about the Markojas' links to Word of Blake and during a battle between the Fourth Oriente Hussars, Baranov's Republican Guards, the Stealthy Tigers and units of the Allied Mercenary Command (Third Dismal Disinherited and Burton's Brigade), the leader of the Raiders, Captain Ezra Payne, broadcast his accusation of treason to the regiment. This set off a battle between the Stealthy Tigers with one siding with the Raiders and the other with the Markojas. It would not be limited to just combat troops, the techs also would split and start fighting at their base. Kirsten Markoja was killed in a duel with Payne, who was badly injured ejecting from his 'Mech but most of the Raiders were killed. Payne, the remnants of his company, the surviving Raiders and techs who had sided with him escaped from Hall on the Stealthy Tigers Dropship Tigris.[10]

The remainder of unit stayed on Hall under Mason Markoja and would be accused of executing AMC POWs and FWL troops.[11] They were still there in 3071[12] and would serve under the Word of Blake for the rest of the Jihad.

In August 3077, the Stealthy Tigers were part of a mercenary task force under the command of Pierre Grandin of Grandin's Crusaders to retake Marcus during Operation SCOUR.[13] By this time, the unit was less than a battalion in strength.[14] The task force trapped the planet's garrison, the Twentieth Marik Militia in the capital city of Zotikos, with only a few survivors joining the arriving Com Guard Fourth Army.[13] The task force also captured the valuable uranium mines on the continent of Wahryn with the Fourth Army failing twice trying to recapture them.[13] Com Guard Blake's Wrath special forces units then blew up the mine network, denying their use to the Word.[13] The Coalition forces then retreated to the nearby world of Dieudonné.[15] The Blakist troops would hold the planet until news of Terra's recapture reached the system. Many mercenaries fled while the rest failed to quell a revolution. Those that were captured were executed.[13] It is not known if any Stealthy Tigers were amongst them but it was confirmed that the Stealthy Tigers had been wiped out by 3081.[16]

Officers[edit]

Rank Name Command
Commanding Officers of the Stealthy Tigers
Colonel Bob Vermithrax 3025[5]
Colonel Yuri Rauschenbusch 3030s - 3067[8]
Colonel Mason Markoja 3067[10]

Raiders[edit]

Within the unit was an exclusive group of MechWarriors called Raiders. They were regarded as the elite of the Tigers. Membership was by invitation only and had to be unanimous amongst all current Raiders. It was earned by a MechWarrior "doing their job well."[17] Raiders were spread throughout the regiment but their numbers were small. In 3067, there were only 17 Raiders.[18]

Raiders wore a pin on their uniform lapel. The pin was black enamel with a white tiger's head in profile.[17]

By custom only a Raider could become the regiment's commander. Once promoted, the commander would, also by custom, cease being an active Raider but would still wear the pin.[19]

After the events of October 3067 the Raiders were no longer active in the unit as they were either all dead or had fled the regiment.[20]

Tactics[edit]

3067[edit]

The Unit fielded many fast medium-class 'Mechs with a few heavies serving as backup. The unit would harass an enemy unit with high speed attacks and retreats.[8]

Support[edit]

3067[edit]

The unit possessed enough DropShips to transport the entire command. The Tigers' technical staff could handle the unit's routine maintenance, but lacked the resources to rebuild the battalion's worth of damaged 'Mechs they had.[8]

Composition History[edit]

2874[edit]

Stealthy Tigers (Reinforced Regiment)[1]

Three light 'Mech battalions
One assault 'Mech battalion
Note: At this point in time the unit was stationed on Tamar.

3025[edit]

Stealthy Tigers (Regiment/Regular/Reliable)[5]

CO: Bob Vermithrax
Note: At this point in time the unit was stationed on Loric.

3050[edit]

Stealthy Tigers (Regiment/Regular/Reliable)[21]

CO: Colonel Yuri Rauschenbusch[8]
Note: At this point in time the unit was stationed on Ventabren.

3059[edit]

Stealthy Tigers (Regiment/Regular/Reliable)[22]

CO: Colonel Yuri Rauschenbusch
Note: At this point in time the unit was stationed on Caph.

3067[edit]

Stealthy Tigers (Two Battalions/Regular/Reliable)[8]

CO: Colonel Yuri Rauschenbusch
XO: Major Mason Markoja
First "Panther" Battalion
CO: Major Mason Markoja
Second "Leopard" Battalion
CO: Major Kirsten Markoja
Jaguar Company (Independent / Training Company)[10]
CO: Captain Ezra Payne
Note: At this point in time the unit was stationed on Hall.

Notes[edit]

  • Field Manual: Lyran Alliance has the Stealthy Tigers return to swear allegiance to the Duchess of Tamar on Porrima in 3062. As there is no mention of this anywhere else, this has probably been retconned.
  • In Technical Readout: Prototypes, the Stealthy Tigers were mentioned as being one of the first mercenary units to purchase the WLF-2H Wolfhound after it entered production in 3083. There is no other mention of the unit in any other Dark Age publications, so it can be assumed that this is an error.

Gallery[edit]

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References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. 66
  2. ↑ Technical Readout: 3026, Revised Edition, p. 8
  3. ↑ House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. 70
  4. ↑ House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. 71
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. 119
  6. ↑ NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1, p. 63: "Overview"
  7. ↑ Chaos March pp. 30–31
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 Mercenaries Supplemental, p. 61: "Stealthy Tigers Unit Profile"
  9. ↑ Mercenaries Supplemental II, p. 27: "Burton's Brigade: In With Both Feet"
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Embers of War
  11. ↑ Mercenaries Supplemental Update, p. 18
  12. ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 110
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 Total Chaos, pp. 164–165: "MARCUS"
  14. ↑ This is surmised by the fact that the Grandin’s Crusaders were battalion strength and was given command due to being the largest unit. See Total Chaos, pp. 156, 173
  15. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 57: "The Jihad in Review"
  16. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 120: "The Condemned"
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Embers Of War, p. 9
  18. ↑ Embers Of War, p. 232
  19. ↑ Embers Of War, p. 118
  20. ↑ Embers Of War, p. 314
  21. ↑ 20 Year Update, p. 57
  22. ↑ Field Manual: Mercenaries, p. 111
Note: Page numbers from Embers of War are from the Kindle edition and may not match the printed edition.

Bibliography[edit]

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