30th Lyran Guards
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The 30th Lyran Guards were a BattleMech regiment in service to the Lyran Commonwealth.
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History
When the 2nd Lyran Guards were destroyed, several of their constituent elements were combined with the Thirtieth Lyran Guards. These elements gave the Thirtieth their name.[1]
1st Succession War
During the First Battle of Hesperus II in 2787 the 30th Guards were among the defenders against the Combine assault dubbed Operation Broken Blade[2] where they managed to protect the factories and force the invaders to retreat.
Third Succession War
The Thirtieth Lyran Guards assaulted Sevren alongside Hansen's Roughriders and Winfield's Brigade in 3024. They faced several Dieron Regulars regiments, but by dividing the strike force into separate groups and defeating them in detail, the Thirtieth brought Sevren under Commonwealth control.[3] The Thirtieth then redeployed to garrison Icar.[4]
Operation Guerrero
Stationed on New Home when the Liaoist guerrilla cells launched an open revolution in 3057, striking almost daily with bombings and killing of civilians. The unit also suffered from those attacks as they frequently hit the unit's personnel and dependents and so further demoralized the Guards' commanders, Marshal Vincent Tanner and his second in command Leftenant General Herbert Kingsley who barely managed to keep the government working. Days after declaring martial law and suspending the ineffectual planetary government, Marshal Tanner was assassinated by the Zhanzheng de Guang. Less than twenty-four hours later New Home heard of Katherine Steiner-Davion's self proclamation to Archon of the newly formed Lyran Alliance and her invitation to all Lyran Troops to return home.
As acting Commander General Kingsley eagerly accepted the invitation but most of the unit preferred to remain on New Home. The new recruits, natives of New Home, and the brutalities of the Zhanzheng de Guang made the unit more determined to free New Home those Liaoist guerrilla. En route to the Lyran Alliance the 30th mutinied. Led by Leftenant General Delores Whitman, Kingsley's second in command, the Guards returned to New Home but found that the Liaoist revolutionaries had taken control in their absence. Reinforced by BattleMechs and state-of-the-art weapons from the Free Worlds League, the newly christened New Home Regulars, presented the 30th Lyran Guards with a formidable opposition that led to a stalemate.
This lasted until Baron Shienzè ruler of New Home hired the mercenary unit Avanti's Angels. With their unusual combat doctrine, shaped by battle against the Clans, that offense was the key to victory and their specialization on hard attacks the Avanti's Angels managed to hit the New Home Regulars hard enough to shift the tide in favor of the Baron and the Lyran Guards in March 3058.
Officers
- 3025, the commanding officer was Colonel Edward Nichols.[4]
- 3054, the commanding officer was Marshal Vincent Tanner.[5]
- 3058, the commanding officer was Leftenant General Herbert Kingsley
- 3058, the commanding officer was Leftenant General Delores Whitman.
Tactics
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Composition History
3025
30th Lyran Guards (Regular/Reliable)[4]
- CO: Colonel Edward Nichols
3040
30th Lyran Guards (Regular/Reliable)[6]
3054
30th Lyran Guards (Regular/Reliable)[5]
- CO: Marshal Vincent Tanner
Notes
- The novel Double-Blind names the unit as 13th Lyran Guards but it's clearly that this is just a mix up in numbers, as all other information fits to the New Home entry in the Chaos March (sourcebook).