1st Genyosha

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The First Genyosha is an elite heavy BattleMech regiment in the service of the Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery.[1]


History

Formation

The Battle for Silver Eagle

The unit was formed in 3027 by order of Coordinator Takashi Kurita to be an elite regiment. Each trooper individually selected by Yorinaga Kurita, picked from the of the best House Kurita soldiers.[2] Its original mission was receive Lord Kurita's military knowledge and destroy the mercenary Kell Hounds, whom he felt robbed him of his honor. He was instructed to hand pick and trained 50 men best warriors from every unit in the Combine. He would be their teacher and commander. From there, his men would train 50 more warriors. Coordinator told Yorinaga these men would form core of his new command, the Genyosha or the Black Ocean.[3] The unit was based on the world of Nashira, where it started to train members to Yorinaga Kurita's standards. The Genyosha was up to battalion strength by the time it was operational enough to conduct missions for the Dragon.[4]

The unit's first saw action on a asteroid-planetoid in the Styx star system. They were to retrieve the Archon-Designate Melissa Steiner, whom had been kidnapped by the Heimdall terrorist group. Genyosha was to back up an elite ISF commando team sent from Dieron to assist in the capture.[5] However, once they arrived in Styx, they discovered that the ISF raid had failed. Now, Lord Yorinaga's rivals, the Kell Hounds, were attempting to rescue the hostages. The two forces clashed and the climax of the battle was the fight between Lord Yorinaga and Kell Hound leader Lt. Colonel Patrick Kell. Their heated engagement resulted in Kell being shot down. However, Lord Kurita victory was short lived. Kell Hound Leutenant Dan Allard, crashed his Valkyrie into the Yorinaga's Warhammer and rendered it disabled. This turn of events resulted in the escape of Archon-Designate, hostages and the Hounds from Kurita space.[6] After Lord Kurita was shot down, the Genyosha withdrew to their DropShips and left the system in defeat.

4th Succession War

Lord Yorinaga now dedicated Genyosha to confronting Colonel Morgan Kell. In the months after the Silver Eagle Incident, he added and trained more troops to raise Genyosha to full regiment strength. Mixing various Combine ethics groups, Rasalhagues, Azami, and other warriors bring regiment to full strength.[7]

When the 4th Succession War broke out in late August 3028, deployed from its base on Nashira to hunt the Hounds. It received word of the Kell Hounds being on the Davion held world of Northwind. It discovered the world had been invaded by Tai-Sho Palmer Conti & 5th Sword of Light in January of 3029. The Sword and its supporting unit, 36th Dieron Regulars had destroyed main line unit there, but was being over run by Davion mercenaries forces. The Genyosha landed on planet pushes the invaders back from the 5th's Headquarters and seriously mauled both units, including Team Banzai.[8]

Days later, the Northwind Highlanders arrive reinforce the beleaguered defenders and push them off Genyosha and rest off world. They arrived back on Nashira in April, to find as reported earlier that their base had been destroyed. However, Lord Kurita is able make out that ruins was turned into map to where they should fight next.[9] Making from it they must go to Lyran world of Ryde by June. They arrive only to discover that Hounds had not arrived, that raid of world they were at had delayed them. Lord Kurita has his son Chu-sa Akira Brahe send a holovid to the Hounds on where to meet next: Nusakan.

The Genyosha goes to Moore, where it leaders meet with Prince Theodore Kurita. Where he pushes for a new offensive into a Lyran vunlerable region of Isle of Skye. The Genyosha was to lure only remaining potential defenders away, the Kell Hounds, to their duel far from the region on Nusakan. The Genyosha assisted Prince Theodore's efforts to secure setup advance base on Dromini VI. Afterward, they it left the planet, passing a inbound Lyran raiding force on 15th of September.[10]

On the 24th October, the unit finally catches up with the Hounds. They came to find them engaged in battle for the last twenty hours with 5th Sword of Light, whom commander came to steal Yorinaga Kurita victory.[11] The Genyosha arrived on desert battlefield where they found litter of the 5th Sword and some of Kell Hound's 'Mech strung along the ground. Make shift area had been made in part battlefield where 5th's commander Conti fought 3rd Battalion commander Scott Bradley in bid to avenge he lost to Conti on Northwind.

After Conti's defeat, Lord Kurita and Colonel Kell finally dueled in the make-shift arena, fighting in form of a Bushido samurai duel. Two fought unlike anyone had seen, resulting Yorinaga's defeat with Morgan Kell bowing his Archer to Yorinaga.

Genyosha staff witnessed their beloved leader, Lord Kurita's seppuku cermony with the Hounds and the 5th Sword survivors. After the ceremonial suicide Rasalhaguan blooded Genyosha members left the Genyosha in lead of Yorinaga's son Akira to join the Kell Hounds. Chu-sa Narimasa Asano took command of the Genyosha and departed planet.

Ronin Wars


War of 3039


Clan Invasion


Operation Bulldog

Deployed in 3059 during Operation Bulldog, the unit was part of the newly formed SLDF Task Force that destroyed Clan Smoke Jaguar's units on Kiamba alongside the Com Guard's 11th Division, the Davion AFFC's 1st Kestrel Grenadiers and the Free Rasalhague Republic's 3rd Drakøns. Caught off-guard due the efforts of Operation Bird Dog, the commander of the 362nd reacted too late to deploy his AeroSpace Fighters and the SLDF taskforce landed without incident. Facing overwhelming odds, the 362nd was easily destroyed, with the coalition forces suffering only minimal losses. [12]

Traveling to recaptured world of Yamarovka during the second wave, the 1st Genyosha formed part of Victor Steiner-Davion's "Dream Team" to capture the important target of Schuyler during the third wave.[13] The 1st Genyosha journeyed with Victor Steiner-Davion's task force to Huntress & ultimately the Clan homeworld of Strana Mechty in 3060. There, Tai-sa Hohiro Kurita led the command company as part of the Great Refusal trial against the Clan Invasion. The Genyosha fought Clan Blood Spirit's Blood Guard Keshik, defeating them and their khan.[citation needed]

Dominion War

In 3062, units of the Alshain Avengers were the trigger of the Combine-Ghost Bear War. During the first offensive, 1st Genyosha relieved the 4th Pesht Regulars on Kiamba. The unit fought and inflicted severe damage to Ghost Bear's forces later in that year.[citation needed]

Federated Suns Incursion


Jihad

Battle of Luthien (3067-3074)

See also: Battle of Luthien (Jihad)

In February 3068, the 1st Genyosha was augmented by an under-strength battalion of surviving members of the Fourteenth Sun Zhang Cadre on Luthien. Commanded by their executive officer, Tai-sa Shih Chou, as their commanding officer, Hohiro Kurita, was stranded on Tharkad, the unit survived the Luthien campaign with only the strength of two reinforced companies. The shattered remnants of the Otomo and Izanagi Warriors operated under the direction of the First, and Sorenson’s Sabres, a mercenary unit contracted under the 1st Genyosha's command, was used as a flanking and reserve force in some of the larger engagements; they left the planet in 3071.[1]

On 18 July 3069, the 2nd Sword of Light, along with the 6th Benjamin Regulars and 40th Dieron Regulars, moved to disrupt the effectiveness of the Loyalist forces operating in the vicinity of the LAW City ruins on Guthry Island. Prematurely alerted to their presence by an engagement with an encountered Word of Blake salvage team, the 1st Genyosha levied heavy casualties on the 6th, scoring a victory for the Loyalists.[14]

On March 14th 3074, the Word of Blake ROM had leaked information regarding the presence of Buda Weapons Chief Researcher Hideoshi Yamika and his prototype Large X-Pulse Laser to the Kokuryu-kai as a means of wearing down Loyalist defenders in Skytower City. The resulting battle ended with Yamika and his prototypes being hustled aboard a Blakist DropShip.[15]

Post-Jihad

After the liberation of Terra and the end of the Jihad the First Genyosha kept the six remaining recruits from the Fourteenth Sun Zhang. Those officers have developed a training program to evaluate the replacements submitted to the regiment. The First Genyosha remained on Luthien as the former capital world's garrison.[16]

Officers

Tactics

The 1st Genyosha is trained in similar tactics to those of the Kell Hounds, including mobile warfare.[21]

Composition History

3027

Genyosha (BattleMech Battalion)

3028 to 3029

Genyosha (BattleMech Regiment/Elite) [17]

  • CO/1st Battalion - Tai-sho Yorinaga Kurita
    • 1st Company
    • 2nd Company
    • 3rd Company
  • 2nd Battalion
    • 1st Company
    • 2nd Company
    • 3rd Company
  • 3rd Battalion
    • 1st Company
    • 2nd Company
    • 3rd Company

3040

1st Genyosha (Regiment/Elite/Questionble)[22]

3052

1st Genyosha (BattleMech Regiment/Elite/Fanatical)[20]

3059

1st Genyosha (BattleMech Regiment/Elite/Fanatical)[21]

  • CO/1st Battalion: Tai-sa Hohiro Kurita II
  • 2nd Battalion: Chu-sa Takasuima Nerii
  • 3rd Battalion: Chu-sa Jaqueline Tokawa

1st Genyosha Aerospace (Expanded Wing/Elite/Fanatical)[21]

  • Wing Commander: Sho-sa Daniel Evans

1st Genyosha Armor (Regiment/Veteran/Fanatical)[21]

  • Armor Commander: Tai-sa Shih Chou

1st Genyosha Infantry (Regiment/Veteran/Reliable)[21]

  • Troop Commander: Tai-sa Brent Patterson

3074

1st Genyosha (2 Reinforced BattleMech Companies)[1]

Rules

Game Rules

Luthien Campaign (Jihad): The 1st Genyosha received a bonus initiative for each enemy element destroyed in the previous turn, with a negative initiative for each unit element destroyed.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Jihad Turning Points: Luthien, p. 6, "1st Genyosha"
  2. ↑ Warrior: En Garde, p. 104: message to Yorinaga from Takashi
  3. ↑ Warrior: Engarde, p. 104
  4. ↑ Warrior: En Garde, p. 246: Clovis Holstein observes another an Invader with a single Overlord class DropShip, which are limited to carrying up to a battalion of 'Mechs
  5. ↑ Warrior: En Garde, p. 238: Coordinator Takashi Kurita orders ISF director Subhash Indrahar to send his ISF agents in and call in the Genyosha to assist in the capture
  6. ↑ Warrior: En Garde, pp. 312-318
  7. ↑ Warrior: Riposte, p. 59
  8. ↑ Warrior: Riposte, p. 238
  9. ↑ Warrior: Coupé, pp. 58-60
  10. ↑ Warrior: Coupé, p. 271: Theodore Kurita tells the captured Frederick Steiner that he wished that the Genyosha had gotten a chance to fight Steiner's unit in battle, but he had just missed them leaving the system
  11. ↑ Warrior: Coupé, p. 291
  12. ↑ The Dragon Roars, pp. 10, 15
  13. ↑ The Dragon Roars, p. 50
  14. ↑ Jihad Turning Points: Luthien, pp. 8-9, "Bullet In the Blue Sky"
  15. ↑ Jihad Turning Points: Luthien, pp. 10-11, "Light Machine"
  16. ↑ Field Report: DCMS, p. 12
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2, p 108
  18. ↑ Warrior: Coupé, p. ??
  19. ↑ 20 Year Update, p. 40
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Luthien (scenario pack), p. 16
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 Field Manual: Draconis Combine, p. 76, "Unit Profile"
  22. ↑ Historical: War of 3039 , p. 139

Bibliography

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