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| Previous Designation =  
 
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| Nickname = Black Watch<ref>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 61: "Regimental Nicknames"</ref>
 
| Nickname = Black Watch<ref>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 61: "Regimental Nicknames"</ref>
| Affiliation = [[Federated Suns]]
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| Parent Command = [[Skye Rangers]]
 
| Parent Command = [[Skye Rangers]]
 
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The Arcturan Guards regiments landed and swiftly took the city of Peshawar, wiping out the defenders and holding in place, leading Tutt to believe that they were readying an assault on Calcutta. Johonson ordered his ground forces to stay mobile to avoid the risk of being trapped by either artillery or orbital bombardment, but also ordered them to strike hard and fast at the League troop concentrations in Quetta and Calcutta, while fighters and assault DropShips conducted sweeps and bombing missions over the towns near both targets. This was followed on March 16, by the arrival of the Tenth Skye Rangers. Their arrival heralded by the orbital bombardment of the Quetta spaceport by the ''[[Commonwealth (WarShip class)|Commonwealth]]''-class cruiser [[LCS Furillo|LCS ''Furillo'']], intended to destroy the Bolan Defenders [[DropShip]]s located at the spaceport while also crippling the Defenders' primary refueling point for their aerospace forces. With the forces around Quetta left in chaos, the Eleventh Arcturan Guards made a suborbital deployment from their position to a new point between Quetta and Mumbai, with air support from the Rangers giving the Lyran forces control of the skies; the Eleventh then struck at Mumbai, and by the end of March 17, both Calcutta and Mumbai were under siege and heavily damaged, with the Defenders frantically trying to find safe locations, while losing artillery duels with the Lyran forces. The next morning, the Fourteenth Arcturan Guards assaulted Calcutta, leaving the city surrounded.<ref name="FSWp17"/>
 
The Arcturan Guards regiments landed and swiftly took the city of Peshawar, wiping out the defenders and holding in place, leading Tutt to believe that they were readying an assault on Calcutta. Johonson ordered his ground forces to stay mobile to avoid the risk of being trapped by either artillery or orbital bombardment, but also ordered them to strike hard and fast at the League troop concentrations in Quetta and Calcutta, while fighters and assault DropShips conducted sweeps and bombing missions over the towns near both targets. This was followed on March 16, by the arrival of the Tenth Skye Rangers. Their arrival heralded by the orbital bombardment of the Quetta spaceport by the ''[[Commonwealth (WarShip class)|Commonwealth]]''-class cruiser [[LCS Furillo|LCS ''Furillo'']], intended to destroy the Bolan Defenders [[DropShip]]s located at the spaceport while also crippling the Defenders' primary refueling point for their aerospace forces. With the forces around Quetta left in chaos, the Eleventh Arcturan Guards made a suborbital deployment from their position to a new point between Quetta and Mumbai, with air support from the Rangers giving the Lyran forces control of the skies; the Eleventh then struck at Mumbai, and by the end of March 17, both Calcutta and Mumbai were under siege and heavily damaged, with the Defenders frantically trying to find safe locations, while losing artillery duels with the Lyran forces. The next morning, the Fourteenth Arcturan Guards assaulted Calcutta, leaving the city surrounded.<ref name="FSWp17"/>
  
[[Lieutenant Colonel]] [[Omar Malak]], the commanding officer of the 101st Assault Battalion,<ref name="IOp226">''Interstellar Operations'', pp. 226–229: "Falling Into Fire"</ref> had turned Calcutta into a city filled with traps and attempted to lure the Lyran forces into those traps, but the Lyran commanding officer, [[Leutnant-General]] [[Baron (noble title)|Baron]] [[Richart Johonson]] had other ideas; he gathered together his aerospace forces and conducted a massive firebombing operation against Calcutta on the morning of March 18, killing twenty thousand civilians and destroying the 101st.<ref name="FSWp17"/><ref name="IOp226"/>
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[[Lieutenant Colonel]] [[Omar Malak]], the commanding officer of the 101st Assault Battalion,<ref name="IOp226">''Interstellar Operations'', pp. 226–229: "Falling Into Fire"</ref> had turned Calcutta into a city filled with traps and attempted to lure the Lyran forces into those traps, but the Lyran commanding officer, [[Leutnant-General]] [[Baron]] [[Richard Johonson von Eilenburg]] had other ideas; he gathered together his aerospace forces and conducted a massive firebombing operation against Calcutta on the morning of March 18, killing twenty thousand civilians and destroying the 101st.<ref name="FSWp17"/><ref name="IOp226"/>
  
 
Incensed by the attack on Calcutta, Tutt ordered the ''[[League (WarShip class)|League]]''-class destroyer [[Talwar|FWLS ''Talwar'']] to bombard the LCAF DropShips, still mostly grounded at Peshawar, even as Johonson was demanding his surrender; Tutt then reiterated that the Defenders would fight the Commonwealth to the last breath before cutting off communications. Tutt ordered his field commanders to leave their positions and attack Lyran forces directly, while ordering his surviving combat elements and noncombatant personnel at the Overwatch to evacuate by DropShip, before ordering the deployment of the Overwatch's nuclear arsenal in a scorched-earth attack. Johonson ordered his troops besieging the various FWLM positions to disengage and disperse, while redeploying his WarShips to bombard the Overwatch and its various weapons positions.<ref name="FSWp17"/><ref name="IOp226"/> Tutt's last-ditch strikes left Mumbai a burning nuclear ruin, along with the cities of Calcutta, Quetta, and Peshawar, and the nuclear bombardment and exchanges on Sabari left the island an uninhabitable radioactive ruin that was still a scorched wasteland in the [[thirty-first century]]. A battalion from the Sixth Bolan Defenders managed to retreat to [[Zdice]], but the Tenth was destroyed on Bolan. The defense of Bolan had cost the Lyran forces two-thirds of the Tenth Skye Rangers, a third each of the Eleventh and Fourteenth Arcturan Guards, two ''[[Mako]]''-class corvettes, with two more ''Makos'' and a ''Commonwealth'' left heavily damaged; lost along with the Tenth and the bulk of the Sixth Bolan Defenders were three ''League''-class destroyers and an ''[[Aegis]]''-class heavy cruiser. Between three to eight million civilians died in the nuclear engagements.<ref name="FSWp17"/>
 
Incensed by the attack on Calcutta, Tutt ordered the ''[[League (WarShip class)|League]]''-class destroyer [[Talwar|FWLS ''Talwar'']] to bombard the LCAF DropShips, still mostly grounded at Peshawar, even as Johonson was demanding his surrender; Tutt then reiterated that the Defenders would fight the Commonwealth to the last breath before cutting off communications. Tutt ordered his field commanders to leave their positions and attack Lyran forces directly, while ordering his surviving combat elements and noncombatant personnel at the Overwatch to evacuate by DropShip, before ordering the deployment of the Overwatch's nuclear arsenal in a scorched-earth attack. Johonson ordered his troops besieging the various FWLM positions to disengage and disperse, while redeploying his WarShips to bombard the Overwatch and its various weapons positions.<ref name="FSWp17"/><ref name="IOp226"/> Tutt's last-ditch strikes left Mumbai a burning nuclear ruin, along with the cities of Calcutta, Quetta, and Peshawar, and the nuclear bombardment and exchanges on Sabari left the island an uninhabitable radioactive ruin that was still a scorched wasteland in the [[thirty-first century]]. A battalion from the Sixth Bolan Defenders managed to retreat to [[Zdice]], but the Tenth was destroyed on Bolan. The defense of Bolan had cost the Lyran forces two-thirds of the Tenth Skye Rangers, a third each of the Eleventh and Fourteenth Arcturan Guards, two ''[[Mako]]''-class corvettes, with two more ''Makos'' and a ''Commonwealth'' left heavily damaged; lost along with the Tenth and the bulk of the Sixth Bolan Defenders were three ''League''-class destroyers and an ''[[Aegis]]''-class heavy cruiser. Between three to eight million civilians died in the nuclear engagements.<ref name="FSWp17"/>
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|[[Colonel]]
 
|[[Colonel]]
|[[Herb Enders]]
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|[[Morgan Kell]]{{cn}}
|[[3025]]<ref name=HSTLCp117>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 117</ref>
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|Sometime during the first decade of the [[thirty-first century]]
 
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|[[Leftenant General]]
 
|[[Leftenant General]]
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* Leftenant [[Edgar Van Den Has]], aerospace fighter pilot in 3058.<ref name=BC-55/>
 
* Leftenant [[Edgar Van Den Has]], aerospace fighter pilot in 3058.<ref name=BC-55/>
 
* Leftenant [[Harvey Kusimerek]], aerospace fighter pilot in 3058.<ref name=BC-55/>
 
* Leftenant [[Harvey Kusimerek]], aerospace fighter pilot in 3058.<ref name=BC-55/>
* [[Morgan Kell]] served with the unit beginning in 3007. In August 3010, he resigned his commission to form the [[Kell Hounds]]<ref>''Kell Hounds (sourcebook)'', p. 16</ref>
 
  
 
==Tactics==
 
==Tactics==
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'''Tenth Skye Rangers''' (Regiment/Regular/Questionable)<ref name="otpfi11"/>
 
'''Tenth Skye Rangers''' (Regiment/Regular/Questionable)<ref name="otpfi11"/>
 
* CO: Leftenant General Tjuti Bakkish<ref name="otpfi11"/>
 
* CO: Leftenant General Tjuti Bakkish<ref name="otpfi11"/>
:* XO/First Battalion: [[Kommandant]] [[Horst Sarz]]<ref name=MIc24>''Malicious Intent'', ch. 24</ref><ref name=TBoCp8>''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 8: "Guerrilla Warfare"</ref>
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:* XO/First Battalion: [[Kommandant]] [[Horst Sarz]]<ref name=TBoCp8>''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 8: "Guerrilla Warfare"</ref>
** First Company: [[Hauptmann (rank)|Hauptmann]] [[Sharon Dome]]<ref name=MIc24/>
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** Second Company: [[Hauptmann]] [[Caradoc Trevena]]<ref name=TBoCp8/>
** Second Company: Hauptmann [[Caradoc Trevena]]<ref name=MIc12>''Malicious Intent'', ch. 12</ref><ref name=TBoCp8/>
 
** Third Company: Hauptmann [[Tony Wells]]<ref name=MIc24/>
 
 
* Second Battalion:
 
* Second Battalion:
 
* Third Battalion: Kommandant [[Heinrich Oheler]]<ref name=TBoCp7>''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 7: "Coventry"</ref>
 
* Third Battalion: Kommandant [[Heinrich Oheler]]<ref name=TBoCp7>''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 7: "Coventry"</ref>
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==Bibliography==
 
==Bibliography==
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* ''[[20 Year Update]]''
 
* ''[[20 Year Update]]''
 
* ''[[The Battle of Coventry (scenario pack)|The Battle of Coventry]]''
 
* ''[[The Battle of Coventry (scenario pack)|The Battle of Coventry]]''
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* ''[[House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)]]''
 
* ''[[House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)]]''
 
* ''[[Interstellar Operations]]''
 
* ''[[Interstellar Operations]]''
* ''[[Malicious Intent]]'' (novel)
 
 
* ''[[Objective Raids]]''
 
* ''[[Objective Raids]]''
 
* ''[[Operational Turning Points: Falcon Incursion]]''
 
* ''[[Operational Turning Points: Falcon Incursion]]''
 
* ''[[Second Succession War (sourcebook)|Second Succession War]]''
 
* ''[[Second Succession War (sourcebook)|Second Succession War]]''
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[[Category:Lyran Commands|Skye Rangers, 10th]]
 
[[Category:Lyran Commands|Skye Rangers, 10th]]
 
[[Category:Federated Commonwealth Commands|Skye Rangers, 10th]]
 
[[Category:Federated Commonwealth Commands|Skye Rangers, 10th]]

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