12th Heavy Assault Regiment

Twelfth Heavy Assault Regiment
Affiliation Star League
Parent Command XXI Corps

The Twelfth Heavy Assault Regiment was a part of the Star League Defense Force Regular Army before entering service as a mercenary unit following the Star League Civil War.

History[edit]

Star League[edit]

In 2764, the unit was assigned, as part of XXI Corps, First Army, to District 1 of the Lyran Commonwealth Military Region.[1] The Twelfth survived the New Vandenberg Uprising and the Hegemony Campaign and signed on as a mercenary unit with Lyran Commonwealth by 2784.[1][2]

Mercenary[edit]

The regiment was stationed on Alkalurops in 2786.[3] In 2791, they supported the Second Lyran Guards in their assault on Radostov, destroying the Fourteenth Bolan Defenders in the fighting. Still in support of the Second, they captured the planet of Herzberg in 2801 and Finsterwalde in 2803 alongside the Eleventh Arcturan Guards. Supporting the Eleventh, they recaptured Radostov in 2808.[4] The Twelfth then settled into a garrison posting on the planet and was still in place in 2821.[3]

Regaining twenty percent of their strength during the lull between the First and Second Succession Wars, by 2830 the Twelfth Heavy Assault Regiment had been redeployed to garrison Zollikofen. By the end of Second Succession War just over thirty years later, the unit had suffered heavy losses, battered down to a third of their regimental strength. Licking their wounds, in 2864 the Twelfth Heavy Assault Regiment remained stationed on Zollikofen.[5]

Officers[edit]

Rank Name Command
Commanding Officers of the Twelfth Heavy Assault Regiment
Colonel Davies 2764[6]

Tactics[edit]

Unknown.

Composition History[edit]

As an SLDF heavy assault regiment, the Twelfth would have been composed primarily of heavy to assault 'Mechs with a company of attached artillery.[7]

2786–2821[edit]

Twelfth Heavy Assault Regiment (Regiment/Veteran/Reliable)[3]

Note: At this time the assault-weight unit was stationed on Alkalurops. In 2821 the command was reduced to 46 percent of its strength and was deployed on Radostov.[3]

2830[edit]

Twelfth Heavy Assault Regiment (Regiment/Veteran/Fanatical)[8]

Note: At this time the assault-weight unit was stationed on Zollikofen with an operational readiness of 68 percent.[8]

2864[edit]

Twelfth Heavy Assault Regiment (Regiment/Regular/Fanatical)[8]

Note: At this time the assault-weight unit was stationed on Zollikofen with an operational readiness of 38 percent.[8]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 The Star League, p. 140: "First Army"
  2. House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. 45: "Military Readiness"
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 First Succession War, p. 140
  4. First Succession War, pp. 71–72: "Bolan Thumb Campaign"
  5. Second Succession War, p. 100: "Second Succession War Deployment Table - Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces"
  6. Field Manual: SLDF, p. 42
  7. The Star League, p. 133
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Second Succession War, p. 100

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