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Stealthy Tigers
Formed 2874
Disbanded circa 3081
Affiliation Mercenary
Parent Command


The Stealthy Tigers were a mercenary unit formed during the Third Succession War.

History

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 defence 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]

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.[5]

In the 3040s 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 Burton's Brigade were withdrawn by the Allied Mercenary Command and left the Cavaliers as the only opposing force.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.[6]

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.[7] 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. 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.[8]

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. [9] The unit was still on Hall in 3071.[10]

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[11]) to retake Marcus on the 11th of August. The coalition forces[12] including the 20th Marik Militia[13] had no choice but to retreat to the nearby world of Dieudonne.[12] 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.[11]

It was confirmed by 3081 that the Stealthy Tigers had been wiped out during the Jihad.[14]

Officers

Rank Name Command
Commanding Officers of the Stealthy Tigers
Colonel Bob Vermithrax 3025[15]
Colonel Yuri Rauschenbusch 3030s - 3067[6]
Colonel Mason Markoja 3067

Tactics

The unit can harass a unit with high speed attacks and retreats.[6]

Support

The unit possesses enough DropShips to transport the entire command. The Tigers' technical staff can handle the unit's routine maintenance, but lack the resources to rebuild equipment a battalion worth.[6]

Composition History

2874

Stealthy Tigers (Reinforced Regiment)[1]

The Unit was formed by three battalions of light 'Mechs and a battalion of assault 'Mechs
Note: At this point in time the unit was stationed on Tamar.

3025

Stealthy Tigers (Regiment/Regular/Reliable)[16]

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

3050

Stealthy Tigers (Regiment/Regular/Reliable) [17]

Note: At this point in time the unit was stationed on Ventabren.

3059

Stealthy Tigers (Regiment/Regular/Reliable) [18]

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

3067

Stealthy Tigers (Two Battalions/Regular/Reliable)[6]

Notes

  • The Unit fields many fast medium-class 'Mechs with a few heavies serving as backup.[6]
  • 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.[20] 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.[21]

Gallery

References

  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. NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1, p. 63, "Overview"
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Mercenaries Supplemental, p. 61, "Stealthy Tigers Unit Profile"
  7. Embers Of War p. 300
  8. Embers Of War p. 301
  9. Mercenaries Supplemental Update p. 18
  10. Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents p. 110
  11. 11.0 11.1 Total Chaos, p. 164-165, "MARCUS"
  12. 12.0 12.1 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 57, "The Jihad in Review"
  13. Jihad Hot Spots: Terra, p. 59-60, "Chaos Eternal: Blood And Fury"
  14. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 120, "The Condemned"
  15. House Steiner p.119
  16. House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth) p. 119
  17. 20-Year Update, p. 57
  18. Field Manual: Mercenaries, p. 111
  19. 19.0 19.1 19.2 Embers of War
  20. Embers Of War p. 13
  21. Embers Of War p. 301

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