251st BattleMech Division

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The Two Hundred Fifty-first BattleMech Division was a part of the Star League Defense Force Regular Army.

History

In 2764, the unit was assigned, as a part of the XIV Corps, Fourteenth Army, to District 1 of the Draconis Combine Military Region and then transferred to District 3 by 2765, to take part in the Periphery Uprising.[1]They took heavy losses during the Hegemony Campaign to retake Terra and the division was disbanded by 2784; elements of the division went on to join the Federated Suns[1] Specifically, Fox Company of the 142nd Battle Regiment's Second Battalion refused the order to abandon their posts. The commander of this company, Kieran McKinnon, encouraged Aleksandr Kerensky to support First Prince John Davion as the new leader of the Star League.[2]

Officers

Tactics

Composition History

As an SLDF BattleMech division the 251st would have been formed from two Brigades of BattleMech regiments and a brigade of Mechanized Infantry regiments.[3]

Notes

Rules

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Star League, p. 147, "Fourteenth"
  2. ↑ Starterbook: Sword and Dragon, p. 15
  3. ↑ The Star League, p. 133
  4. ↑ ComStar (sourcebook), p. 13

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