Operation BULLDOG

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Property "Update Needed From" (as page type) with input value "Shattered Sphere]], Handbook: Major Periphery States, Era Report: 3062, [[Historical Turning Points: Luzerne" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process. Operation Bulldog was the military codename for the phase of the Star League offensive against Clan Smoke Jaguar in 3059 that was aimed at liberating that Clan's Occupation Zone in the Inner Sphere. Led by Precentor Martial Anastasius Focht and Archon-Prince Victor Steiner-Davion, the assault succeeded beyond their most optimistic hopes, thanks in large part to a lack of preparedness on the part of the Jaguars and a lack of help from their fellow Clans.

Operational assets coalition forces under the flag of the new Star League Defense Forces. The forces included large quanity of Draconis Combine armed forces. Also, newly claimed bonds man of the Clan Nova Cat whom in secret defected to Star League.

Earlier military operation, Operation Bird Dog, had paved way for Bulldog by softening Smoke Jaguar garrison forces.

Wave One

Irece[1]

Attackers: Second An Ting Legion
Defenders: Fifth Garrison Cluster
Outcome: The control over the planet was deciceded in an unsual contest. The competitor had more drunk then the clan warrior. As a result the Cats lost the world.

Hyner [2]

Attackers: Second Sword of Light [3] + 1st Regulan Hussars + 9th Division + 208th Division
Defenders: 3rd Jaguar Cavaliers
Outcome: Because the defending Cavaliers were unprepared they had no changes and lost the planet to the DCMS.

Kiamba[4]

Attackers: First Genyosha + First Kestrel Grenadiers + Third Drakons + [11th Division (ComStar)|Com Guards Eleventh Division]]
Defenders: 362nd Assault Cluster
Outcome: The initial shock was to much for the Smoke Jaguar unit on the ground. The assaulting taskforce played their superior numbers and secured the planet for the DCMS, again.

Kanowit[5]

Attackers: First Proserpina Hussars
Defenders: Ninth Nova Cat Regulars
Outcome: The dmcs unit must fight, because as a frontline planet the world was take by war and must be reatken by war. The high decorated Tai-sa gain victory after a larger engagement against the Regulars.

Tarazed[6]

Attackers: Second Genyosha + Third Donegal Guards + First St. Ives Lancers
Defenders: Seventh Jaguar Dragoons
Outcome: The commander of the taskforce know the rituals of the clans well and bid for a save landing. Through coordinated attacks of the three regiments the 7th Dragonns broke under such pressure and lost.

Port Arthur[7]

Attackers: First Davion Guards + (Reinforcment: + Seventeenth Benjamin Regulars + Second Legion Vega + Fifth Sword of Light)
Defenders: 168th Garrison Cluster
Outcome: During Operation Bird Dog the attacking AFFS unit excepted only token resitance but run rightinto the arms of the 168th Garrison Cluster. After 14 days of hard battles the long awaited reinforcement arrived. Even against such odd the Jaguars fought fiercely, but hopeless.

Asgard[8]

Attackers: 3rd Benjamin Regulars + Davion Assault Guards + 278th ComGuard Division + 3rd Proserpina Hussars
Defenders: Fourth Jaguar Hussars
Outcome: The defenders had no chance to gain victory against an enemy which was 4 times larger and lost.

Cyrenaica[9]

Attackers: First Shin Legion
Defenders: Fourth Nova Cat Regulars
Outcome: The Regulars agreed to become bondsmen to the DCMS, but after a short time old rivalries broke out. However, this unrest changed nothing.

Teniente

Attackers: Izanagi Warriors
Defenders: Nova Cats Sixth Garrison Cluster + 489th Assault Cluster
Outcome: The Dragons Claws secured Teniente in a series of duels. [10]

Jeanette

Attackers: 2nd Dieron Regulars + House Dai Da Chi + Crater Cobras
Defenders: Nova Cat Lancers [11]
Outcome: The Lancers followed the way of their khans. After a short time as bondsmen the Cats fought alongside of the SLDF against the Jaguars.

Chupadero[12]

Attackers: Forty-Second Galedon Regulars
Defenders: Nova Cat Fifteenth Garrison Cluster
Outcome: The Galedon fight with ferocity against the defenders, only after the shotdown of the CO of the DCMS the fighting turned in favor of the attackers. The Cats handed the planet over to the combine.

Sawyer[13]

Attackers: Third Night Stalkers
Defenders: Nova Cats Twelfth Garrison Cluster
Outcome: The Night Stalkers had no difficulties gaining the planet back from the defending Nova Cats.

Wave 2

Avon[14] (Wave one)

Attackers: 4th Pesht Regulars
Defenders: First Nova Cat Guards
Outcome: The attacking DCMS unit meet the Cats on the battlefield and had a hard time. Because of internal fighting within the defenders the kuritan taskforce could win the battle and integrated the Nova Cat half of Avon back in the combine. [15][16]

Avon[17] (Wave two)

Attackers: 198th Division
3rd Royla Guards
4th Pesht Regulars
11th Alshain Avengers
1st Star League Nova Cat Guards (Alpha)
1st Star League Garrison Cluster
3rd Star League Garrison Cluster
Defenders: Beta Galaxy Command Trinary
1st Jaguar Guards
Outcome: In the second phase of the invasion of Avon the SDLF bring their full might to the ground and the smoke jaguars lost the planet.

Mualang[18]

Attackers: First Proserpina Hussars
Defenders: Nova Cats 119th Striker Cluster
Outcome: The DCMS unit learned the defending Nova Cats a lesson in the modern tactics of the dragon and secured the Day. [19]

Yamarovka[20]

Attackers: 1st Davion Guards
8th Alshain Avengers
2nd Kell Hounds
Defenders: 11th Garrison Cluster
Outcome: The planet was secured by the allied taskforce and no Smoke Jaguar warrior survived.

Caripare[21]

Attackers: First Shin Legion
two Trinaries of the Star League Nova Cat Guards
Second An Ting Legion
Seventy-Ninth Division
First Fusiliers of Oriente
First St. Ives Lancers
Defenders: The Fifth Nova Cat Regulars (became SDLF)
Second Jaguar Guards
Outcome: The Nova Cat Regulars joined the SLDF ranks after they get bondsmen and battle their former comrades to the ground. The Jaguar Guards could not survive as unit.

Jeanette[22]

Attackers: 2nd Dieron Regulars
1sAmphigean Light Assault Group
1st Aragon Borderers
Warrior House Daidachi
Crater Cobras
Defenders: Nova Cat Lancers
Outcome: The Dieron Regulars take the defending Lancers as bondsmend, which later fought during the 4 Wave of Operation Bulldog against the Smoke Jaguars.

Juazeiro[23]

Attackers: Izanagi Warriors
Defenders: 6th Nova Cat Regulars
Outcome: Both commanding officers fight in a simulated duel over the rule of the planet. Shin Yodama beat the star colonel, which accepted his defeat honorable.

Itabaiana

Attackers: 5th Sun Zhang Academy Cadre
Defenders: 44th Nova Cat Cavaliers
Outcome: Like other events between the Drgaon and the Cats, the Cadets secured the planet for the combine again after a fierce sport competion against the defending Cavaliers. [24]

Labrea[25]

Attackers: 1st Wolf Strike Grenadiers
4th Wolf Guards Assault Cluster
1st Wolf Legion Cluster
Defenders: 6th Jaguar Dragoons Cluster
Outcome: The elite 6th Dragoons choose the battlefield to deceided the future of the planet. After they were defeated they joined the ranks of the Wolf in Exile.

Byesville[26] [27]

Attackers: Eighth Sword of Light
Fifth Sun Zhang Cadre
Sixth Lyran Guards
First MAC
Defenders: Seventeenth Jaguar Regulars
Outcome: The defending Jaguar unit, collapsed under the coordinated attacks of the SLDF task force.

Courchevel[28]

Attackers: Ryuken-roku
Defenders: Forty-sixth Nova Cat Cavaliers
Nova Cats Fourteenth Garrison Cluster
Outcome: The position over the planet was deceided by a shooting contest, which the skilled Tai-sa of the Ryuken won.

Luzerne[29]

Attackers: Third Davion Guards RCT
ComStar's 208th Division
Ryuken-roku
Defenders: 4th Provisional Garrison Cluster
Sixth Striker Cluster
Kappa Galaxy Command Trinary
Outcome: The fight for these planet continued and only Wave 3 bring a decicion in favor of the SDLF units.

Hanover[30]

Attackers: Second Dieron Regulars
Second Sword of Light
Warrior House Daidachi
Crater Cobras
Defenders: Seventeenth Garrison Cluster
Outcome: The defending 17th Garrisn Cluster fought only token battles and retreat under fire offworld.

Nykvarn[31]

Attackers: 6th An Ting Legion
Ryuken-go
Capellan's Red Lancers
Defenders: 124th Garrison Cluster
Outcome: The defending Garrison Cluster sought a honorable death against the SLDF. As a result no clan warrior survived.

Almunge[32]

Attackers: 1st Aragon Borderers
1st Amphigean Light Assault Group
Defenders: no defenders
Outcome: The planet had no standing garrison and was easily recaptured.

Turtle Bay[33]

Attackers: 2nd Legion of Vega
11th Legion of Vega
16th Legion of Vega
Defenders: no defenders
Outcome: The planet has after the orbital bombardement no defenders and the Legion of Vega could regain its lost honor.

Virentofta[34]

Attackers: 1st FedSuns Armored Cavalry
ComStar's 31st Division
Stirling's Fusiliers
Northwind Hussars
Defenders: 151st Garrison Cluster
Outcome: The combined might of the allied forces make short work with the defending Cluster.

Bjarred[35]

Attackers: Sixth Ghost Regiment
Defenders: Nova Cats 189th Striker Cluster
Outcome: The two commanding officers choose a coin flip to decided which side would win. The star colonel accepted the result and joined the ranks of the SLDF with the rest of his unit.

Tarnby[36]

Attackers: Sixth Ghost
Defenders: Nova Cats 153rd Garrison Cluster
Outcome: The Nova Cats challenged the invading DCMS unit to a climping contest and after 7 days the banner of the combine waved as signed of the victory.

Counter attack

Lonaconing[37]

Attackers: 27th Garrison Cluster
Defenders: 15th Lyran Regulars
4th Arkab Legion
Outcome: A large portion of the attacking Cluster could escape, because the star colonel avoided any direct engagement with the SDLF unit.

Matamoras[38]

Attackers: Nineteenth Striker Cluster
Defenders: 1st Free Worlds Guards
2nd Night Stalkers
Ryuken-yon
Outcome: The Striker Cluster meet heavier resistance then expected, even from civilian but damaged the infrastructure seriously. After the garrison units stopped the assault, the newly arrived Ryuken regiment destroyed the unit during a night assault.

McAlister[39]

Attackers: Second Jaguar Regulars
Defenders: 14th Alshain Avengers
22nd Dieron Regulars
1st Ghost
Davion Assault Guards RCT
Outcome: The raiding clan unit attack any sign of the SLDF redgardless of the resistance and died under the pressure of 4 IS regiment.

Pesht [40]

Attackers: Delta Galaxy Command Trinary
Third Assault Cluster
Defenders: Seventh Sword of Light
Ryuken-san
First Kell Hounds
Second Wolf Legion
Outcome: The command unit of the Delta Galaxy chose Pesht as the raiding target and excepted only IS forces. The WiE unit was a suprise to the attackers which hammered on the flanks of the invaders. After loosing their command trinary the remaining forces tried to flee through the ranks of the Kell Hounds but the elite unit smashed them one for all.

Meinacos[41]

Attackers: 267th Battle Cluster
Defenders: Eighth Dieron Regulars
St. Ives Cheveau Legers
First Canopian Cuirassiers
Eleventh Alshain Avengers
Seventh Pesht Regulars
Outcome: The attacking clan unit was held in place by the garrision units, which received help from worlds within jump range. The commanding officer recall his unit after serious loses offworld and the SLDF gained another victory.

Wave 3

Marshdale

Attackers: Ryuken-ni
Com Guard's Ninth Division
First Fusiliers of Oriente
Defenders: Alpha Galaxy Command Trinary + Ninth Jaguar Cavaliers
Outcome: The Jaguars suffers great casaulties from the hands of the experienced 9th Dision. In conjunction with the other units of the Taskforce, the Clan commands were defeated. [42]

Outer Volta

Attackers: Izanagi Warriors
Eighth Sword of Light
Com Guard Thirty-Ninth Division
Defenders: Beta Galaxy Command Trinary
First Jaguar Guards
Outcome: The fight for the planet was fierce, but the outcome was known from the beginning. The 39th Division was the anvil and the other SDLF commands the hammer where between the two forces the smoke jaguar units were crushed.[43]

Bangor

Attackers: Second Dieron Regulars
Warrior House Daidachi
First Wolf Legion Cluster
Defenders: The Second Jaguar Guards
51st Garrison Garrison Cluster
Outcome: The fight for the planet was brutal but the Jaguars retreat after recognicing the strength of their enemy and save in this way many troops for the fight on Huntress. [44]

Schuyler

Attackers: First Genyosha + Davion Heavy Guards RCT
First St.Ives Lancers
Fourth Wolf Guard Assault Cluster
Tenth Lyran Guards
Com Guards 91st Division
Defenders: Nu Galaxy Command Trinary
Fourth Jaguar Regulars
Twelfth Jaguar Regulars
Outcome: The Jaguars fight with feriocity against such overwhelming numbers, but faltet under the presuure of 5 IS commands. The clan units abonde the planet and retreated back to Huntress. [45]


Garstedt

Attackers: Sixth Lyran Guards
Ryuken-go
First MAC
Com Guard 79th Division
Defenders: Seventeenth Jaguar Regulars
143rd Battle Cluster
Outcome: The taskforce of the SLDF was a frighting force. The Jaguars left the planet to the invaders after suffering some loses and retreated back to the periphery in direction Huntress. [46]

Coudoux

Attackers: First Amphigean LAG
Second Sword of Light
First Aragon Borderers
Com Guards 34th Division
Defenders: Jaguars Eighth Garrison Cluster
Outcome: Like the other late invasions in wave three the SDLF fight the Jaguars only lightly, because the clan forces retreat backwards. [47]

Rockland

Attackers: Eleventh
Sixteenth Legions of Vega
Com Guards 91st Division
Stirling's Fusiliers
Northwind Hussars
Defenders: Jaguars Tenth Garrison Cluster
Outcome: The 10th Garrison Cluster fought only with minimal resistance against the invaders and followed the general retreat order of Smoke Jaguar high command on the 13th of August. [48]

Schwartz

Attackers: Sixth Ghost
[2nd Night Stalkers|Second Night Stalkers]
First FedSuns Armored Cavalry
Com Guards [[85th Division (ComStar)|85th Division]
Defenders: 189th Garrison Cluster
Outcome: 4 SDLF commands were enougth to convience the Jaguars to retreat back to the Clan space. [49]

Wave 4

Richmond

Attackers: 3rd Night Stalkers
Defenders: 47th Garrison Cluster
Outcome: The landing SDLF command were suprised to find the planet without its Garrions Cluster which followed the general retreat call of the HQ. [50]

Idlewind

Attackers: 6th Ghost
Defenders: Fifth Garrison Cluster
Outcome: Like the 3rd Night Stalkers on Richmond the Ghost command find the planet orphaned.[51]

Stapelfeld

Attackers: The First Amphigean Light Assault Group
First Free Worlds Guards
First Aragon Borderers
Defenders: 27th Garrison Cluster
Outcome: With no hope of rescue, the 27th Garrison only fought long enough to satisfy their honor before accepting Trials of Possession to by captured by the 1st Amphigean.[52]

Kabah [53]

Attackers: Twenty-Second Dieron Regulars
Com Guards 34th Division
SLDF Nova Cat Lancers
Defenders: Seventh Garrison Cluster
Outcome: While badly outnumbered, the 7th Garrison held out in vain for relief from Matamoras until the 22nd Dieron finally convinced them no rescue was forthcoming. The Smoke Jaguars then staged Trials of Possession to be captured, the challenges almost evenly split between the 22nd and Nova Cat Lancers.[52]

Jeronimo

Attackers: Eleventh Alshain Avengers
Davion Assault Guards RCT
First Wolf Legion Cluster
First Kell Hounds
Defenders: Tenth Jaguar Regulars
Outcome: Despite being outnumbered 3 to 1 with no hope of escape, the 10th Regulars chose to fight to death, only a few Smoke Jaguar warriors surviving to be taken prisoner.[52]

Albiero

Attackers: Second Dieron Regulars
Warrior House Daidachi
First Wolf Strike Cluster
Crater Cobras
Defenders: Eleventh Jaguar Regulars
Outcome: The heavily outnumbered 11th Jaguar Regulars chose to fight to last man. The only event of note was House Daidachi's capture of an intact Jaguar supply depot, while the supplies had to be shared among all SLDF forces, the technicians uniformly chose to become bondsmen to the Capellan unit. [52]

Savinsville

Attackers: Fourth Wolf Guards Cluster
ComGuards 79th Divison
6th Lyran Guards
Defenders: Third Garrison Cluster
Outcome: With no hope of rescue, the 3rd Garrison only fought long enough to satisfy their honor before accepting Trials of Possession to taken by the 4th Wolf Guards. [52]

IS Omnimech with Clantech

During the early waves of the operation the SLDF captured large stockpiles of Clan Smoke Jaguar supplies and equipment, exemplifying the OmniMech concept a number of quick field configurations for the Inner Sphere/Combine OmniMechs were developed using this captured Clan-tech material to boost their effectiveness in the later waves:

Map

SLDF Forces + Jaguar Forces

Units Overview


DCMS Forces
8th Alshain Avengers
11th Alshain Avengers
14th Alshain Avengers
1st Amphigean Light Assault Group
2nd An Ting Legion
6th An Ting Legion
4th Arkab Legion
3rd Benjamin Regulars
9th Benjamin Regulars
17th Benjamin Regulars
2nd Dieron Regulars
8th Dieron Regulars
22nd Dieron Regulars
42nd Galedon Regulars
1st Genyosha
2nd Genyosha
1st Ghost
6th Ghost
Izanagi Warriors
2nd Legion of Vega
11th Legion of Vega
16th Legion of Vega
2nd Night Stalkers
3rd Night Stalkers
4th Pesht Regulars
7th Pesht Regulars
1st Proserpina Hussars
3rd Proserpina Hussars
Ryuken-ni
Ryuken-go
Ryuken-san
Ryuken-Roku
Ryuken-yon
1st Shin Legion
2nd Sword of Light
5th Sword of Light
7th Sword of Light
8th Sword of Light
5th Sun Zhang Cadre


AFFS Forces
1st Aragon Borderers
Davion Assault Guards RCT
1st Davion Guards
3rd Davion Guards RCT
Davion Heavy Guards RCT
1st FedSuns Armored Cavalry
1st Kestrel Grenadiers
1st Robinson Rangers
LAAF Forces
2nd Donegal Guards RCT
3rd Donegal Guards RCT
6th Lyran Guards RCT
10th Lyran Guards RCT
15th Lyran Guards
3rd Royal Guards RCT
ComStar Forces
9th Division
11th Division
31st Division
34th Division
39th Division
79th Division
85th Division
91st Division
198th Division
208th Division
278th Division
403rd Division
FWLM Forces

1st Free Worlds Guards
1st Fusiliers of Oriente
1st Regulan Hussars
CCAF Forces

House Daidachi
1st McCarron's Armored Cavalry
1st Canopian Cuirassiers
Red Lancers
Harloc Raiders
FRR Forces
3rd Drakøns
St. Ives Forces
1st St. Ives Lancers
St. Ives Cheveau Legers
Clan Wolf-In-Exile
4th Wolf Guards Assault Cluster
1st Wolf Legion Cluster
2nd Wolf Legion Cluster
1st Wolf Strike Grenadiers
2nd Wolf Strike Grenadiers
Mercenary Forces
Crater Cobras
1st Kell Hounds
2nd Kell Hounds
Stirling's Fusiliers
Northwind Hussars
Nova Cat: Forces
1st Star League Nova Cat Guards Trinary Alpha
1st Star League Nova Cat Guards Trinary Bravo
1st Star League Nova Cat Guards Trinary Delta
1st Star League Garrison Cluster
3rd Star League Garrison Cluster
5th Star League Regulars
SLDF Nova Cat Lancers



Smoke Jaguar Forces
Alpha Galaxy
Galaxy Command Trinary
9th Jaguar Cavaliers
6th Jaguar Dragoons
Beta Galaxy
Galaxy Command Trinary
362nd Assault Cluster
267th Battle Cluster
1st Jaguar Guards
2nd Jaguar Guards
Delta Galaxy
Galaxy Command Trinary
3rd Assault Cluster
3rd Jaguar Cavaliers
19th Striker Cluster
Epsilon Galaxy
Galaxy Command Trinary
4th Jaguar Dragoons
7th Jaguar Dragoons
6th Striker Cluster
Zeta Galaxy
Galaxy Command Trinary
5th Garrison Cluster
47th Garrison Cluster
189th Garrison Cluster
2nd Jaguar Regulars
11th Jaguar Regulars
Kappa Galaxy
Galaxy Command Trinary
3rd Garrison Cluster

4th Garrison Cluster
17th Garrison Cluster
19th Garrison Cluster
51st Garrison Cluster
Nu Galaxy
Galaxy Command Trinary
4th Jaguar Regulars
12th Jaguar Regulars
124th Garrison Cluster
143rd Garrison Cluster
168th Garrison Cluster
Psl Galaxy
Galaxy Command Trinary
7th Garrison Cluster
8th Garrison Cluster
10th Garrison Cluster
11th Garrison Cluster
17th Jaguar Regulars
Omega Galaxy
Galaxy Command Trinary
151st Garrison Cluster
27th Garrison Cluster
10th Jaguar Regulars

References

  1. Field Manual Comstar p.129
  2. Dragon Roars p.16
  3. Field Manual Update p.111
  4. Dragon Roars p.16
  5. Field Manual Comstar p.128
  6. Dragon Roars p.16
  7. Dragon Roars p.16
  8. Dragon Roars p.16
  9. Field Manual Comstar p.130
  10. Field Manual Comstar p.125
  11. Field Manual Comstar p.127
  12. Field Manual Comstar p.132
  13. Field Manual update p.113
  14. Dragon Roars p.16
  15. Field Manual Updates p.109
  16. Field Manual Comstar p.125
  17. Dragon Roars p.25
  18. Dragon Roars p.16
  19. Field Maual Comstar p. 126
  20. Field Manual Mercaneries Revised p.82
  21. Field Manual Comstar p.130
  22. Field Manual Comstar p.127
  23. Field Manual Comstar p.130
  24. Field Manual Comstar p.126
  25. Field Manual Warden Clans p.158
  26. Dragon Roars p.25
  27. Field Manual Update p.111
  28. Field Manual Comstar p.126
  29. Dragon Roars p.25
  30. Dragon Roars p.25
  31. Dragon Roars p.25
  32. Dragon Roars p.25
  33. Field Manual Update p.115
  34. Dragon Roars p.25
  35. Field Manual Comstar p.127
  36. Field Manual Comstar p.131
  37. Dragon Roars p.32
  38. Dragon Roars p.32
  39. Dragon Roars p.32
  40. Dragon Roars p.32
  41. Dragon Roars p.32
  42. Field Manual Comstar p.34
  43. Field Manual Comstar p.42
  44. Dragons Roar p.44
  45. Dragons Roar p.44
  46. Field Manual Comstar p.28
  47. Dragons Roar p.44
  48. Dragons Roar p.44
  49. Dragons Roar p.44
  50. Dragons Roar p.10
  51. Dragons Roar p.10
  52. 52.0 52.1 52.2 52.3 52.4 The Dragons Roar, p. 52 "Wave Four - Clean Up"
  53. Field Manual Comstar p.127

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