13th Lyran Guards

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History

Was sent to Keid around 3057 - 3058 in response to Duchess Arice Hunsen rise to power and her declaration of her loyalty to Archon Katherine Steiner-Davion and the newly formed Lyran Alliance.

Capitulated after a six month long fight against Clifton’s Rangers & Hannibal’s Hermits on Keid in 3066. By using the terrain and their superior mobility, the two units outmaneuvered the heavier Lyran unit, ambushed it at every opportunity and finally captured their base.

This is contrary to the novel Double-Blind:

When the Lyran units were called home from the Chaos March, the 13th Lyran Guards stayed on New Home. Due to their loyalty, they were in 3058 formally declared the standing army of the dukery of New Home. They were even officially renamed to the 13th Guard. They fought against Capellan invaders and were reinforced by the mercenary unit Avanti's Angels to wear them down with guerilla warfare.

Notes

First appeared in the Chaos March Sourcebook but that seemed to be an error because there is no sign of it's formation and no entry in any deployment table.

Could be one of the few "born-by-accident" units, simply be using a wrong number or name or even both, in this case I'll bet it should have been the 13th Donegal Guards as this is the only Lyran unit with the number 13 around the time of it's appearance.

The short mentioning in the Mercenaries Supplemental seems to be an attempt to correct this error by simply destroying the unit.