1st Shin Legion

First Shin Legion
Affiliation	Capellan Confederation Draconis Combine
Parent Command	Shin Legion Capellan Brigade

Unit Description

The lead Regiment of the Shin Legion, which was originally a house unit in service to the Capellan Confederation.

Motto

Welcome to interesting times.

Insignia

Original Insignia

The Unit's original insignia had consisted of a black Buddha on a golden disk.

Post 3061 Insignia

In 3061, the Shin Legion adopted a new insignia of a Buddha on red disk, replacing the golden disk of its original insignia, to avoid the implication that the unit has the Chancellor's favor.

History

In Service of Draconis Combine

The Shin Legion, along with its sister units had fled from the Confederation for the Draconis Combine after the Fourth Succession War, fearing Chancellor Romano Liao's purges. This became a self-fulfilling prophecy when Romano Liao ordered the unit destroyed. The Third Shin Legion was destroyed, the Second got away clear, and the First only survived the exodus because their aerospace wing sacrificed themselves to delay the Holdfast Guard and Maskirovka-hired mercenaries that were attacking them.

Seen as a foreign unit in the Draconis Combine, the First Legion worked hard for its new home. They frequently demonstrated a near-suicidal determination to complete their orders.

Ronin War

During the Ronin War the Kanrei sent the First Shin Legion to Kandis, which was under attack by mercenary units in the employ of the Duke of Tamar. There the First Shin Legion faced off against the Dragonslayers and Meriadoc's Malcontents. Within four hours the Dragonslayers had surrendered. The Malcontents refused to surrender, and the First and Second Shin Legion destroyed them. After that, the Shin Legions relocated to Skandia until the Draconis Combine recalled them.

Clan Invasion

In late 3051 during the Clan Invasion, the unit had received Star League era BattleMechs. This signaled to then commanding officer Tai-sa Yanyouan that they were being called to front lines to face the Clans. The unit was sent to Cyrenaica where they met forces from Clan Nova Cat in February of 3052. The battle was lost at the start of the engagement with the Nova Cat forces. The Nova Cats did not provide a batchall or follow zellbrigen, which confused the Shin Legion commanders. Tai-sa Yanyouan ordered his troops to engage in a fighting withdrawal. In their fighting retreat from the planet, the Legion's infantry was able to destroy a Trinary's worth of Nova Cat OmniMechs. They left the world when the Combine assigned two armored regiments to the planet.

During Operation Bulldog the First Shin Legion faced the Clans on Cyrenaica and Caripare in the first wave. They spent the rest of the offensive as Cyrenaica's garrison.

Rebuilding

The Draconis Combine High Command called the unit to Luthien where they discovered that their sister unit, the Second Shin Legion had been destroyed in the battle for the planet. The Legion absorbed few survivors from the unit.

The unit drafted new personnel to the unit over course of its rebuilding period. Many of these replacements came from warriors who graduated from the proving ground system and were from poorer families. The unit's new commander, Tai-sa Nguyen, ordered screening of new candidates for the Legion. This was an effort to preserve the unit's cultural integrity. The warriors of the Legion were held in contempt by the Ghost Regiments as the yakuza considered them traitors. Conversely the Legionnaires considered the Ghosts nothing more than thuggish criminals. As a result the Draconis High Command kept the two units far away from each other.

By 3057, Coordinator Theodore Kurita gifted the unit with two companies of the Combine's latest OmniMechs and other advanced equipment. This left the unit indebted to their host nation.

However, over the years despite their dedication, the unit has not been granted permission by the Coordinator to allow them to add the emblem of Draconis Combine on their units. This request sent regularly to him up to 3061.

Tai-sa Nguyen then received an invitation from Chancellor Sun-Tzu Liao for the Legion to return to the Confederation. With chance to return from exile, Nguyen accepted with the endorsement of rest of the Legion. Prior to returning to the Confederation, the unit gifted the old Second Shin Legion's DropShips to the Combine as payment of its debt to the Combine for its reconstruction.

Returning to the Service of the Capellan Confederation

Upon accepting an invitation from Sun-Tzu Liao the First returned to Capellan service in 3061, renaming themselves simply as the Shin Legion. When it arrived in the Confederation, the unit traded a lance of its Kuritan-made OmniMechs for a lance of Men Shen Medium OmniMechs.

The Twenty-fourth Luthien Light Wing did not accompany the Legion to the Confederation. Kong-sao-shao of the Red Sun Flight, a distant relative of a member of the 1st Shin Legion who defected to the Combine, requested that his unit be assigned as the Shin Legion's new aerospace support. This request to join the Legion caused the CCAF to downgrade the Red Sun Flight's loyalty rating to Questionable. By 3067 the unit had gained a second flight of aerospace fighters and a mixed battalion of battle armor attached to its parent command.

Jihad

Necromo

The Legion was recovering from aftereffects of the fighting against House Davion's Operation SOVEREIGN JUSTICE on Necromo. In August 3071, the Shin Legion and the Home Guard were utterly wiped out by the Word of Blake's Forty-seventh Shadow Division days before Blakist sent asteroids to pummel the planet into barren wasteland.

Officers

Rank	Name	Command
Commanding Officers of the First Shin Legion (House Liao)
Commanding Officers of the First Shin Legion (House Kurita)
Tai-sa	Chou Yanyouan	3051
Tai-sa	Huang Nguyen	3059
Commanding Officers of the First Shin Legion (House Liao)
Sang-shao	Huang Nguyen	3063

Tactics

The unit noted for its being able to adapt quickly to fluid situations on the Battlefield. Its members are trained to handle all terrains, but specialize in engagements on open terrain. It has noted from learning from their enemy's actions against them.

After fighting the Nova Cats on Cyrenaica, the Shin Legion adopted new tactics based on those that Nova Cats used against the legion. The Legion uses its heavy 'Mechs to engage the enemy's main line, using a lighter force to harass the enemy's flanks, while using its aerospace assets to strafe the enemy's rear.

Composition History

3040

First Shin Legion (Regiment/Veteran/Reliable)

Note: At this point in time the command was stationed on Ancha.

3050

First Shin Legion (Regiment/Veteran/Reliable)

• CO: Tai-sa Chou Yanyuan

Note: At this point in time the unit was stationed on Ancha.

3054

First Shin Legion (Regiment/Veteran/Reliable)

• CO: Tai-sa Chou Yanyuan

3059

First Shin Legion (Regiment)

• CO: Tai-sa Huang Nguyen
  • XO: Chu-sa Li Chang
• First Battalion - CO: Chu-sa Naomi Yang-ming
• Second Battalion - CO: Chu-sa Sul Wen Ti
  • Third Company: Sho-sa Hachidu Toroda
• Third Battalion - CO: Chu-sa Sui Wen Ti

Twenty-fourth Luthien Light Aerospace Wing (2 aerospace fighter Companies)

• CO: Dai-i Carlton Ryuanji

3063

Shin Legion (Regiment)

• CO/First Battalion: Sang-shao Huang Nguyen
  • XO: Zhong-shao Li Chang
• Second Battalion: Zhong-shao Naomi Yang-ming
• Third Battalion: Zhong-shao Hachidu Toroda

• Capellan Navy Red Sun aerospace fighter flight
  • CO/Wing Commander: Kong-sao-shao Sul Wen Tym

3067

Shin Legion (Regiment)

• CO: Sang-shao Huang Nguyen

Capellan Navy Red Sun (2 aerospace fighter flights)

• CO: Kong-sao-shao Sul Wen Tym

Shin Mechanized Infantry (Battalion)

• CO : Zhong-shao Noh Ka Du

Rules

Game Rules

Draconis Combine Force Specific Rules

When using Advance scenarios rules, the unit has been given Force Specific rules to allow it to receive +1 to its initiative when fighting on flatlands terrain. Also, opposing player forces who receive loses any bonus when facing Legion due to them being well-rounded. While in service from 3051 and to end their service with Combine, unit received C Equipment rating.

In Alpha Strike games, the First Shin Legion can use the Environmental Specialization (Clear) and Tactical Specialization (Defense) Special Command Abilities.

Capellan Confederation Force Specific Rules

In addition to bonuses gained while in Draconis Combine. When Legion is rolled up from Random Assignment Tables, three out of four units must be rolled from Draconis Combine tables for C Rated Equipment.

Bibliography

• Combat Manual: Kurita
• The Dragon Roars
• Field Manual: Draconis Combine
• Field Manual: Capellan Confederation
• Field Manual: Updates
• Historical: Brush Wars
• Historical: War of 3039
• Invading Clans
• Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents
• Objective Raids
• Technical Readout: 3039
• With Carrion Men