116th BattleMech Division

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116th BattleMech Division
Nickname The Gargantua Division[1]
Affiliation Star League
Parent Command LIV Corps

The 116th BattleMech Division was a part of the Star League Defense Force Regular Army.

History[edit]

In 2764, the unit was stationed on Grosvenor,[2] assigned as a part of the LIV Corps, Fourth Army to District 3 of the Federated Suns Military Region but was moved to an undisclosed area of the Periphery to take part in the Periphery Uprising by 2765. The 116th survived the war and the Hegemony Campaign, and followed General Aleksandr Kerensky on the Exodus in 2784.[3]

Officers[edit]

Rank Name Command
Commanding Officers of the 116th BattleMech Division
Major General Mario LaPota 2764[1]
Major General Pilar Rodriguez-Vargas 2764[1]

Tactics[edit]

Unknown.

Composition[edit]

As an SLDF BattleMech division, the 116th would have been composed of two brigades of BattleMech regiments and one brigade of mechanized infantry regiments.[4]

2764[edit]

116th BattleMech Division[1]

  • 1161st BattleMech Brigade
  • 1162nd BattleMech Brigade
All regiments within the 1161st and 1162nd brigades were Heavy Assault Regiments.
The brigade used Maxim Hover Transports, and two-thirds of the infantry were equipped with man-portable SRM launchers.
All aerospace fighters weighed sixty tons or more.

References[edit]

  1. a b c d Field Manual: SLDF, p. 71: "116th BattleMech Division"
  2. Field Manual: SLDF, p. 252: "SLDF - Federated Suns Military Command Map"
  3. The Star League, p. 152: "Fourth Army"
  4. The Star League, p. 133: "Divisions - BattleMech Division"

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