52nd Heavy Assault Regiment

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Fifty-second Heavy Assault Regiment
Disbanded By 2788[1]
Affiliation Star League; Mercenary
Parent Command XII Corps; Independent

The Fifty-second Heavy Assault Regiment was a part of the Star League Defense Force Regular Army.

History[edit]

Star League[edit]

In 2764, the unit was assigned as a part of XII Corps, Ninth Army to District 2 of the Free Worlds League Military Region.[2][3]

The Fifty-second was transferred to an undisclosed district within the Periphery by 2765. The unit survived the Periphery Uprising and the Hegemony Campaign, but did not leave with Aleksandr Kerensky.[2]

Mercenary[edit]

The unit became a mercenary force serving under the Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery[2][4][5] in 2783.[6][See Notes] During the First Succession War, they were deployed to the world of Pilkhua in 2786,[7] and then Hesperus II in December 2787, where they would be destroyed in entirety by the time the DCMS retreated in January 2788.[1]

Officers[edit]

Rank Name Command
Commanding Officers of the 52nd Heavy Assault Regiment
Captain Connor McCreedom 2787[8]

Tactics[edit]

Unknown.

Composition History[edit]

2764[edit]

Fifty-second Heavy Assault Regiment

As an SLDF Heavy Assault regiment, each battalion of the 325th would have been primarily composed of three companies of heavy to assault BattleMechs with a fourth company of attached artillery.[9][10]

2786[edit]

Fifty-second Heavy Assault Regiment (Regiment/Veteran/Fanatical)[7]

Note: At this point in time the assault-weight unit was stationed on Pilkhua.[7]

Notes[edit]

^ The Star League states that the Fifty-second joined the DCMS in 2784,[2] while the more recent publication First Succession War lists the year as 2783.[6]

References[edit]

  1. a b First Succession War, p. 50: "Operation BROKEN BLADE"
  2. a b c d The Star League, p. 142: "Ninth Army"
  3. Field Manual: SLDF, p. 118: "XII Corps - Independent Regiments"
  4. Combat Manual: Kurita, p. 25: "The Dragon's Hirelings"
  5. House Kurita (The Draconis Combine), p. 54: "The First Succession War"
  6. a b First Succession War, p. 35: "Those Left Behind (Continued)"
  7. a b c First Succession War, p. 137: "Deployment Table"
  8. First Succession War, pp. 62–63: "Holding Hesperus"
  9. The Star League, p. 133: "Regiments - Heavy Assault"
  10. Field Manual: SLDF, p. 13: "Regiments - Heavy Assault"

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