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| conflict = Battle of Nox (2475)<br>"Battle of Beckvern Hill"
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| partof = [[Age of War]]
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| caption = Battle of Beckvern Hill
 
| date = July [[2475]]
 
| place = Beckvern Hill
 
| planet = [[Nox]]
 
| territory = No changes
 
| faction1 = (Attacker)<br />[[Draconis Combine]]
 
| faction2 = (Defender)<br />[[Lyran Commonwealth]]
 
| commander1 = Unknown
 
| commander2 =  [[Archon]] [[Michael Steiner (25th c.)|Michael Steiner]]
 
| forces1= [[Second Sword of Light]]
 
| forces2= Unknown
 
| result = Draconis Combine defeat
 
| environment = Hill
 
| conditions = Normal
 
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==History==
 
==History==
In July [[2475]] a major earthquake hit Tharkad City, the capitol of the [[Lyran Commonwealth]], destroying the majority of its government buildings. The resulting chaos and confusion gave the [[Draconis Combine]] the incentive to invade the Lyran world of [[Nox]]. The planet became the site of the first full-scale [[BattleMech]] versus BattleMech engagement, occurring at Battle of Beckvern Hill. [[Archon]] [[Michael Steiner (25th c.)|Michael Steiner]]'s Company of 'Mechs (including several of the new COM-1A ''[[Commando]]s'') and supporting heavy tanks moved against an equal number of Kuritan GLD-1R ''[[Gladiator]]s'' from the [[Second Sword of Light]]. In the three hour battle against the notoriously tenacious DCMS, the Archon's troops used their superior experience and numerical advantage to fight their way into the Sword of Light's rear areas. They then fanned out into [[lance]]-sized units to cause as much damage as possible to the enemy's supplies and communications. Michael Steiner's Command Lance fought its way to the enemy's Regimental HQ, killing the command staff before being killed by Combine reinforcements.<ref>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 24</ref><ref name=TROP1p3>''Experimental Technical Readout: Primitives, Volume 1'', p. 3: "COM-1A Commando"</ref><ref name=TROP2p5>''Experimental Technical Readout: Primitives, Volume 2'', p. 5: GLD-1R Gladiator"</ref> 
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[July [[2475]]] - The major earthquake that hit Tharkad City, destroying the majority of its government buildings, gave the [[Draconis Combine]] the incentive to try for [[Nox]]. [[Nox]] became the site of the first full-scale Mech-vs-Mech battle, occuring at Battle of Beckvern Hill. Archon Michael Steiner's Company of Mechs and supporting heavy tanks moved against an equal number of Kuritan Mechs from a [[Sword of Light]] Regiment. In the three- hour battle against the notoriously tenacious DCMS, the Archon's troops fought their way into the DC's rear areas. They then fanned out into lance-sized units to cause as much damage as possible to the SoL's supply and communications. [[Michael Steiner]]'s Command Lance fought its way to the enemy's Regimental HQ. There, the former Archon managed to destroy the field Headquarters, killing the command staff before being killed-in-action by DC Mech reinforcements. Though this Kurita attack was neither successful nor strategically significant, it marked a major turning point in armed warfare. The few confrontations in military history that compare to it include the Monitor-vs-Merrimack engagement
 
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in March 1862 and the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942.
Though this Combine attack was neither successful nor strategically significant, it marked a major turning point in armed warfare.
 
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
 
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==Bibliography==
 
==Bibliography==
* ''[[Experimental Technical Readout: Primitives, Volume 1]]''
 
* ''[[Experimental Technical Readout: Primitives, Volume 2]]''
 
* ''[[House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)]]''
 
  
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[[Category:Age of War Era Military Operations]]

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