8th Army (ComStar)
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| 8th Army V-pi | |
| Nickname | Stern Defense |
| Affiliation | ComStar |
| Parent Command | Com Guards |
Assigned to the Castor Theater, 7 to 8 on the Inner Sphere Clock, the Com Guards 8th Army is located on the border of Lyran and Marik space, making it a prime target for Blakist terrorist attacks, being known as Stern Defense.
Contents
History[edit]
During the Battle of Tukayyid, the inexperienced Eighth Army was teamed with the remains of the Second Army and assigned to face Clan Diamond Shark. While the Eighth suffered heavy losses, ROM's intelligence rating the Diamond Sharks as the weakest Clan on Tukayyid proved accurate, with the Sharks totally routed and almost completely destroyed. [1]
With the arrival of the Word of Blake and the ejection of ComStar from the Free Worlds League in 3052, the Eighth Army was moved to station planets on the FedCom-League Border. With the FWLM's recapture of League worlds lost to the Federated Commonwealth in the Fourth Succession War in 3057, the Eighth moved to garrison worlds in the Lyran Alliance. [2]
With little opportunity for full combat, the Eighth instead had to weather terrorist attacks from both the Word of Blake and surprisingly Loki, Katherine Steiner-Davion seemingly attempting to focus the Com Guards' attentions away from approaching FedCom Civil War.[2] When the situation burst into open warfare, the Eighth suffered badly with elements fighting alongside and against both the Allied and Loyalist forces, with the actions of 167th earning them expulsion from ComStar but winning the friendship of the 4th Crucis Lancers, who absorbed many of their survivors.[3]
After the beginning of the Jihad the Com Guard Armies were stretched too thin. To counteract this, the 7th-12th Armies were disbanded and used to reinforce the 1st-6th Armies. This gave each of the newly-reinforced Armies a full six Divisions. The 8th Army was one of the formations affected.[4]
Officers[edit]
| Rank | Name | Command | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commanding Officers of the 8th Army (ComStar) | |||
| Precentor V | Maurice Naddeo | 3050[5] | |
| Precentor | Beeshor Yekel | 3067[6][2][3][7] | |
Other Officers[edit]
- Precentor IV Ruth Niskanen, aide to the commander in 3050.[5]
Tactics[edit]
Unknown.
Composition History[edit]
3050[edit]
- 31st Division (Static Hurlers IV-kappa, on Alula Australis)[5]
- 56th Division (Eyes of ComStar IV-upsilon, on Sterling)[5]
- 182nd Division (Standing Waves IV-zeta, on Loric)[5]
- 85th Division (Lions of the Periphery IV-kappa, on Tamarind)[5]
- 143rd Division (The Grace of Thought IV-xi, on Poulsbo)[5]
- 79th Division (Straight Words IV-epsilon, on Zdice)[5]
3055[edit]
- 182nd Division (The Steel Cavalry IV-kappa, on Castor)[7]
- 85th Division (Mack the Knife Division IV-omicron, on Callison)[7]
- 56th Division (The Martial's Sword IV-iota, on Solaris)[7]
- 167th Division (The Green Mountain Boys IV-xi, on Loric)[7]
3062 to 3067[edit]
- 182nd Division (The Steel Cavalry IV-kappa, on Cavanaugh II)[2][3]
- 85th Division (Mack the Knife Division IV-omicron, on Aberystwyth)[2][3]
- 56th Division (The Martial's Sword IV-iota, on Solaris)[2][3]
- 167th Division (The Green Mountain Boys IV-xi, on Loric)[2] - Destroyed during FedCom Civil War [3]
Gallery[edit]
Original unit insignia used during the Battle of Tukayyid
References[edit]
- ↑ Tukayyid, p. 69, "Campaign: Clan Diamond Shark"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Field Manual: ComStar, p. 28, "5th Army V-Omicron: The Mountaineers"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Field Manual: Updates, p. 86-87, "8th Army V-Pi (Stern Defense)"
- ↑ Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers, p. 210
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 20 Year Update, p. 71, "8th V-Omicron"
- ↑ Tukayyid, p. 85, "Annihilation of the Sixth"
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 ComStar, p. 85, "8th Army V-Pi"