Editing Baring the Blade: The Battle for Ankaa!

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| precededby          = [[Gambit: The Battle for Addicks!]]
| followedby          = [[Visions of Fire: The Battle for Ozawa!]]
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'''''Baring the Blade: The Battle for Ankaa!''''' is an official scenario pack for the [[MechWarrior: Dark Age]] (MWDA) Clix game, containing four scenarios. It was first published through the now defunct [[MechWarrior: Dark Age Website|website]] that [[WizKids]] maintained in support of their [[MechWarrior: Dark Age]] game line, to support organized play and tournaments.

==Content==
===Scenario 1 - Sword and Claw===
Duke [[Aaron Sandoval (32nd c.)|Aaron Sandoval]], leader of the [[Swordsworn]] faction, is plotting to consolidate his hold on Prefecture IV. His ﬁrst move is to secure the world of [[Ankaa]], which is the headquarters and manufacturing center for [[DiNapoli Industries]] (a subsidiary of [[Bannson Industries]]), the leading manufacturer of DropShips in Prefecture IV. This will give him much-needed intersolar transport capacity, which he requires to secure more worlds for himself and for House Davion. However, Duke Sandoval is not the only one who realizes the importance of those transportation assets, and if he wants to take the world, he'll have a ﬁght on his hands.

===Scenario 2 - Downstrike===
Following the battle for Anqabad, the [[Steel Wolves]] savagely push the [[Swordsworn]] into the twisted canyons of the North Pole's Great Maze. Neither side is familiar with the jagged, treacherous and disorienting terrain, meaning both forces must ﬁght with the terrain as much as with each other.

===Scenario 3 - Baiting the Wolf===
Disgusted by how the [[Steel Wolves]] took control of the battle for [[Ankaa]] and forced her [[Swordsworn]] into the Great Maze, Leftenant Colonel Jameson formulates a plan that will give her the initiative. Pulling back to the base of Al Kazim—the third-largest mountain in [[Ankaa]]'s north polar region—she sets up a fake ﬁeld command post. Leaving her own machine in the open to bait them, she's hoping to pull most of the Wolves down on the site, which she has surrounded with her own troops.

===Scenario 4 - Coupé===
After the savage, no-holds-barred ﬁghting in the Great Maze and at the base of Al Kazim, both sides have taken extensive casualties. Realizing that they need sufﬁcient forces to take and hold Anqabad and the domed [[DiNapoli Industries]] complex, they both move for the city. However, the [[Steel Wolves]] beat the [[Swordsworn]] to the punch, forcing them to ﬁght a defending force entrenched in a city.

== Featured characters ==
* [[Aaron Sandoval (32nd c.)]]
* [[Diane Jameson]]
* [[Sadia Wolf]]
* [[Kal Radick]]

== Featured BattleTech ==
===BattleMechs===
* ''[[Spider]]''
* ''[[Ryoken II]]''
* ''[[AgroMech MOD]]''
* ''[[Catapult]]''

===Vehicles===
* [[Behemoth II]]
* [[SM1 Tank Destroyer]]

===Aerospace Fighter===
* ''[[Shiva]]''

===Battle Armor===
* [[Elemental (Battle Armor)|Elemental]]

== Featured planets ==
* [[Ankaa]]
* [[Tikonov]]
* [[Tigress]]

==Notes==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200502070734/www.warrenborn.com/Files/MechwarriorScenarioHandbookv1.2.pdf/ MechWarrior Age of Destruction Scenario Handbook], as of 4 January 2009 (via Wayback Machine) - Scenario Summaries
*[https://www.sarna.net/files/info/docs/products/mwda/scenarios/ankaa.pdf Baring the Blade The Battle for Ankaa!] full text (from Sarna download section)

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