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| + | When [[Operation Bulldog]] started the Cluster was caught off-guard and the commander reacted too late to deploy her [[AeroSpace Fighter]]s allowing the Inner Sphere taskforce to land without incident in June 3059. This was part of the first wave and consisted of the [[DCMS]]'s elite [[1st Genyosha| First Genyosha]], the [[Com Guard]]'s [[11th Division (ComStar)|Eleventh Division]], the Davion [[AFFC]]'s [[1st Kestrel Grenadiers|First Kestrel Grenadiers]] and the [[Free Rasalhague Republic]]'s [[3rd Drakøns|Third Drakøns]]. Facing such overwhelming odds, the 362nd Assult Cluster was easily destroyed, with the coalition forces suffering only minimal losses.<ref name=TDR-15>''The Dragon Roars'', p. 10-11, 15</ref> | ||
==Officers== | ==Officers== | ||
Revision as of 15:41, 14 June 2016
Contents
Overview
The 362nd Assault Cluster was a front line military formation of Clan Smoke Jaguar.
History
Operation Revival
The 362nd Assault Cluster bid and fought on the following worlds during Operation Revival, the invasion of the Inner Sphere:
Periphery
Santander's World
Sarah Weaver won the bidding against Star Colonel Kellin MacKensie of Clan Ghost Bear for the right to attack Santander's World with nine 'Mechs and a Star of Elementals from the Shroud Keshik in August 3049. She made her batchall and was surprised to receive a reply from Helmar Valasek stating that a Battalion of Santander's Killers would meet her on the Gillard Plains, 10km from their base. When they landed the warriors found only three DropShips and no signs of the Killers. The Elementals approached the DropShips without incident, but as the Keshik formed up to march past the vessels towards the Killer's base the concealed explosives within the DropShips was detonated destroying more than half the Keshik's 'Mechs. Helmar Valasek then led a Company of the Killers in an assault that finished off the crippled Keshik, apologising for being late as he was eating dinner. Weaver was incensed and led the 362nd Assault Cluster to crush the Killers in brutal fighting that lasted a week.[1]
Wave One
Turtle Bay
The 362nd Assault Cluster was one of two Clusters from Beta Galaxy to attack Turtle Bay in March 3050.[2] The Jaguar Clusters entered the system via a pirate point and issued a batchall that the commander of the defending Fourteenth Legion of Vega responded to, stating he would defend the planet with everything he had except one battalion. This battalion was commanded by Hohiro Kurita the heir to the Combine. Two Supernova trinaries and an aerospace trinary landed at meadows to the north of the city of Edo. The Jaguar fighters strafed the armor columns of the Fourteenth Legion destroying almost all of it in a single attack. Tai-sa Niro order his own fighters to counter, but these were soon shot from the sky. In desperation the Legions infantry attacked but were soon engaged by Elementals. After two hours of fighting the defenders broke and retreated to the city of Edo after a flank attack by elite Elemental from the Stealth Trinary, Strike Star.[3] The Legion of Vega ran back into the city. Hohiro Kurita attempted to direct them to the spacport and the safety of their DropShips. His own battalion moved to cover the rout and set booby-traps in the narrow streets. This lack of honor incensed the Jaguar warriors and they rampaged through the city hunting down the DCMS forces until they Legion was forced to surrender.[4]
Wave Four
Courchevel
In September 3050 the First and Second Assault Supernovas along with Trinary Command were bid to take Courchevel. The defending Tenth Alshain Regulars miscalculated the approach time of the Jaguar DropShips allowing the 362nd Assault Cluster to overrun their hardened positions and catch the bulk of the Combine unit in the open of the Harcourt Plains. The Tenth were slaughtered in a brutal melee and forced to retreat. They chosen the apparent safety of the Dragon's Rift and its rocky cover, unknown to the Tenth Star Colonel Emily Wimmer had placed her Command Trinary in the Rift and the retreating Tenth ran straight into it and surrendered.[5]
Wave Five
Post Tukayyid
The cluster took up station on Kiamba at the forefront of the Clan forces.[6]
Operation Bulldog
Operation Bird Dog
Kiamba
As part of the clandestine campaign Operation Bird Dog the Galedon pride, a company sized unit from the Fifth Galedon Regulars, dropped onto Kiamba in May 3059. The 362nd Assult Cluster hunted it down and destroyed them completely before reinforcements could arrive. [7]
Wave One
Kiamba
When Operation Bulldog started the Cluster was caught off-guard and the commander reacted too late to deploy her AeroSpace Fighters allowing the Inner Sphere taskforce to land without incident in June 3059. This was part of the first wave and consisted of the DCMS's elite First Genyosha, the Com Guard's Eleventh Division, the Davion AFFC's First Kestrel Grenadiers and the Free Rasalhague Republic's Third Drakøns. Facing such overwhelming odds, the 362nd Assult Cluster was easily destroyed, with the coalition forces suffering only minimal losses.[8]
Officers
- Star Colonel Emilie Wimmer 3049-3059 [9] [10]
- Star Captain Silva DesCastris 30??-3059 - Trinary Command
- Star Captain Dwayne Myers 30??-3059 - Trinary Battle
- Star Captain Lois Furey 30??-3059 - First Trinary Assault
- Star Captain Stephan Osis 30??-3059 - Second Trinary Assault
- Star Captain Gran Osis 30??-3059 - Binary Elemental
- Star Captain Carlo 30??-3059 - Fighter Star
- Star Commander Davis Grey 30??-305? - Strike Star Jungle, Stealth Trinary. [11]
Tactics
The cluster prefers broad frontal assaults where speed and shock allows them to quickly overtake and crush their opponents.
The loss of such a large number of Elementals from it roster during Operation Revival would require a shift in tactics away from a combined arms approach.
Composition History
3049-3052
(partial)
- Strike Star Jungle (25 Elementals - elite)
3057-3059
- Trinary Command - (15 OmniMechs)
- Trinary Battle - (15 OmniMechs)
- First Trinary Assault (15 OmniMechs)
- Second Trinary Assault - (15 OmniMechs)
- Binary Elemental - (50 Elementals)
- Fighter Star - (10 OmniFighters)
Rules
A minimum of half the deployed 'Mechs must be jump capable (round down).
After 3050 the Cluster does not have to employ Zellbrigen or Batchall when facing Inner Sphere opponents. [13]
Notes
- An Aerospace Trinary is reported on Turtle Bay but this may have belonged to the 3rd Attack Cluster. [14]
Gallery
362nd Assault Cluster TO&E 3058
References
- ↑ Invading Clans, p. 53-4
- ↑ Lethal Heritage, p. 122
- ↑ Clan Troops, p. 22-3
- ↑ Invading Clans, p. 55
- ↑ Invading Clans, p. 67
- ↑ Objective Raids, p. 34
- ↑ The Dragon Roars, p. 8-9
- ↑ The Dragon Roars, p. 10-11, 15
- ↑ Invading Clans, p. 67
- ↑ ''Era Report: 3052, p. 129
- ↑ Clan Troops, p. 23
- ↑ Invading Clans, p. 70
- ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 150
- ↑ Invading Clans, p. 55