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Line 27: After arriving in the Sarna system, [[AFFS]] forces led by the aggressive behavior of General [[Gordon Hartstone]], the combat commander of the [[Fifth Syrtis Fusiliers]], combined with a lack of military intelligence about the garrison on the planet cost the invading [[Federated Suns]] forces dearly. Hartstone had his [[DropShip]]s accelerate towards Sarna at high speed, faster than the DropShips transporting the other forces, intent on arriving two days early and thereby giving his Fusiliers the chance to make their mark in the invasion. What the invasion forces were unaware of was that all four regiments of [[McCarron's Armored Cavalry]] were on Sarna, and the Fusiliers dropped in their midst. The initial landing zone was intended to be just north of the Gray River, but the proposed landing site proved untenable due to heavy mud and floodwater left over from local flooding, forcing the Fusiliers' DropShips to ground on higher ground to the northwest. As the Fusiliers deployed, the empty DropShips in orbit detected more than a hundred [[aerospace fighter]]s converging on the Fusiliers position, forcing the DropShips in orbit to land on Sarna after destroying the defending AFFS aerospace fighters. The Capellan fighters then began an intense strafing and bombing campaign, savaging the Fusiliers attached aerospace wing and ground forces. The Second and Third Battalions of the Fusiliers were subjected to intense fighter attack with heavy casualties, while the First Battalion was harassed by fast-moving [[Savannah Master]] hovercraft. Even with supporting fire from the grounded DropShips, the Fusiliers losses were catastrophic; after shattering the three 'Mech battalions with aerospace forces and ambushes and leaving just a company of Fusilier 'Mechs fleeing into deep forest under the cover of forest fires behind them, the Big Mac used their aerospace fighters to destroy the bulk of the Fusiliers ten supporting regiments, with just two regiments surviving. Ten of the twenty DropShips that transported the conventional forces to Sarna were destroyed; the crews of six of the destroyed DropShips, the [[Calona|FSS ''Calona'']], [[Deborah (Individual DropShip)|FSS ''Deborah'']], [[Hasek (Individual DropShip)|FSS ''Hasek'']], [[Haversham (Individual DropShip)|FSS ''Haversham'']], [[Minos|FSS ''Minos'']], and [[Parker (Individual DropShip)|FSS ''Parker'']], could have survived if they had abandoned the Fusiliers, but instead chose to fight until destroyed.<ref name="NAIS4SW2p44">''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2'', pp. 44–51: "Sarna"</ref> After arriving in the Sarna system, [[AFFS]] forces led by the aggressive behavior of General [[Gordon Hartstone]], the combat commander of the [[Fifth Syrtis Fusiliers]], combined with a lack of military intelligence about the garrison on the planet cost the invading [[Federated Suns]] forces dearly. Hartstone had his [[DropShip]]s accelerate towards Sarna at high speed, faster than the DropShips transporting the other forces, intent on arriving two days early and thereby giving his Fusiliers the chance to make their mark in the invasion. What the invasion forces were unaware of was that all four regiments of [[McCarron's Armored Cavalry]] were on Sarna, and the Fusiliers dropped in their midst. The initial landing zone was intended to be just north of the Gray River, but the proposed landing site proved untenable due to heavy mud and floodwater left over from local flooding, forcing the Fusiliers' DropShips to ground on higher ground to the northwest. As the Fusiliers deployed, the empty DropShips in orbit detected more than a hundred [[aerospace fighter]]s converging on the Fusiliers position, forcing the DropShips in orbit to land on Sarna after destroying the defending AFFS aerospace fighters. The Capellan fighters then began an intense strafing and bombing campaign, savaging the Fusiliers attached aerospace wing and ground forces. The Second and Third Battalions of the Fusiliers were subjected to intense fighter attack with heavy casualties, while the First Battalion was harassed by fast-moving [[Savannah Master]] hovercraft. Even with supporting fire from the grounded DropShips, the Fusiliers losses were catastrophic; after shattering the three 'Mech battalions with aerospace forces and ambushes and leaving just a company of Fusilier 'Mechs fleeing into deep forest under the cover of forest fires behind them, the Big Mac used their aerospace fighters to destroy the bulk of the Fusiliers ten supporting regiments, with just two regiments surviving. Ten of the twenty DropShips that transported the conventional forces to Sarna were destroyed; the crews of six of the destroyed DropShips, the [[Calona|FSS ''Calona'']], [[Deborah (Individual DropShip)|FSS ''Deborah'']], [[Hasek (Individual DropShip)|FSS ''Hasek'']], [[Haversham (Individual DropShip)|FSS ''Haversham'']], [[Minos|FSS ''Minos'']], and [[Parker (Individual DropShip)|FSS ''Parker'']], could have survived if they had abandoned the Fusiliers, but instead chose to fight until destroyed.<ref name="NAIS4SW2p44">''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2'', pp. 44–51: "Sarna"</ref> − [[Westrick's Black Cobras]] and the [[Screaming Eagles]] were still on approach to Sarna when the Fusiliers were destroyed, and were faced with an invidious choice; Sarna was obviously a brutal trap, but aborting the invasion would leave them in breach of contract, placing any future employment in jeopardy. The commanding officers of the three regiments including Westrick decided to press ahead with the invasion, but to alter the plans given to them by the COC in the hope that they could hold out long enough for reinforcements to arrive. All three regiments dropped at the Blackhole DZ, 200 km from where the Big Mac had destroyed the Fusiliers, after their DropShips made multiple in-flight course corrections to confuse the Big Mac's fighters. The drop was successful, with the mercenaries arriving on Sarna on the 29th of May and swiftly destroying the local militia forces near Backtal, securing the landing zone to enable their attached conventional forces to deploy. Narrowly avoiding a hidden minefield, [[Westrick's Black Cobras]] secured a weapons factory near Backtal after surprising the defending militia forces before the munitions stored there could be destroyed. Fighters from the Big Mac subsequently destroyed the factory complex, but not before the Black Cobras had secured significant quantities of [[autocannon]] ammunition and [[vibrabomb]]s.<ref name="NAIS4SW2p44"/> + [[Westrick's Black Cobras]] and the [[Screaming Eagles]] were still on approach to Sarna when the Fusiliers were destroyed, and were faced with an invidious choice; Sarna was obviously a brutal trap, but aborting the invasion would leave them in breach of contract, placing any future employment in jeopardy. The commanding officers of the three regiments including Westrick decided to press ahead with the invasion, but to alter the plans given to them by the COC in the hope that they could hold out long enough for reinforcements to arrive. All three regiments dropped at the Blackhole DZ, two hundred kilometers away from where the Big Mac had destroyed the Fusiliers, after their DropShips made multiple in-flight course corrections to confuse the Big Mac's fighters. The drop was successful, with the mercenaries arriving on Sarna on the 29th of May and swiftly destroying the local militia forces near Backtal, securing the landing zone to enable their attached conventional forces to deploy. Narrowly avoiding a hidden minefield, [[Westrick's Black Cobras]] secured a weapons factory near Backtal after surprising the defending militia forces before the munitions stored there could be destroyed. Fighters from the Big Mac subsequently destroyed the factory complex, but not before the Black Cobras had secured significant quantities of [[autocannon]] ammunition and [[vibrabomb]]s.<ref name="NAIS4SW2p44"/> With [[ComStar]] enacting a communications [[interdiction]] in response to the invasion of Sarna, the other DropShips and JumpShips in the system that had transported the invasion force acted on the last messages they received - false messages apparently indicating that everything was proceeding according to plan - and left the Sarna system, leaving the mercenaries unsupported. The Big Mac, believing that the mercenary drop was a decoy intended to lure them away from the capital, maintained a cautious defense until August, when it became apparent that the mercenaries were unsupported. In late August the four regiments of the Big Mac arrived near Backtal, where the Cobras and Eagles had been nervously awaiting a rapid demise; with the Big Mac finally attacking, the two mercenary commands elected to make their last stand in a region known as Graves Hollow, a forested valley some twenty kilometers in length, with numerous locations where strongholds could be fashioned or ambushes launched.<ref name="NAIS4SW2p44"/> With [[ComStar]] enacting a communications [[interdiction]] in response to the invasion of Sarna, the other DropShips and JumpShips in the system that had transported the invasion force acted on the last messages they received - false messages apparently indicating that everything was proceeding according to plan - and left the Sarna system, leaving the mercenaries unsupported. The Big Mac, believing that the mercenary drop was a decoy intended to lure them away from the capital, maintained a cautious defense until August, when it became apparent that the mercenaries were unsupported. In late August the four regiments of the Big Mac arrived near Backtal, where the Cobras and Eagles had been nervously awaiting a rapid demise; with the Big Mac finally attacking, the two mercenary commands elected to make their last stand in a region known as Graves Hollow, a forested valley some twenty kilometers in length, with numerous locations where strongholds could be fashioned or ambushes launched.<ref name="NAIS4SW2p44"/>
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After arriving in the Sarna system, [[AFFS]] forces led by the aggressive behavior of General [[Gordon Hartstone]], the combat commander of the [[Fifth Syrtis Fusiliers]], combined with a lack of military intelligence about the garrison on the planet cost the invading [[Federated Suns]] forces dearly. Hartstone had his [[DropShip]]s accelerate towards Sarna at high speed, faster than the DropShips transporting the other forces, intent on arriving two days early and thereby giving his Fusiliers the chance to make their mark in the invasion. What the invasion forces were unaware of was that all four regiments of [[McCarron's Armored Cavalry]] were on Sarna, and the Fusiliers dropped in their midst. The initial landing zone was intended to be just north of the Gray River, but the proposed landing site proved untenable due to heavy mud and floodwater left over from local flooding, forcing the Fusiliers' DropShips to ground on higher ground to the northwest. As the Fusiliers deployed, the empty DropShips in orbit detected more than a hundred [[aerospace fighter]]s converging on the Fusiliers position, forcing the DropShips in orbit to land on Sarna after destroying the defending AFFS aerospace fighters. The Capellan fighters then began an intense strafing and bombing campaign, savaging the Fusiliers attached aerospace wing and ground forces. The Second and Third Battalions of the Fusiliers were subjected to intense fighter attack with heavy casualties, while the First Battalion was harassed by fast-moving [[Savannah Master]] hovercraft. Even with supporting fire from the grounded DropShips, the Fusiliers losses were catastrophic; after shattering the three 'Mech battalions with aerospace forces and ambushes and leaving just a company of Fusilier 'Mechs fleeing into deep forest under the cover of forest fires behind them, the Big Mac used their aerospace fighters to destroy the bulk of the Fusiliers ten supporting regiments, with just two regiments surviving. Ten of the twenty DropShips that transported the conventional forces to Sarna were destroyed; the crews of six of the destroyed DropShips, the [[Calona|FSS ''Calona'']], [[Deborah (Individual DropShip)|FSS ''Deborah'']], [[Hasek (Individual DropShip)|FSS ''Hasek'']], [[Haversham (Individual DropShip)|FSS ''Haversham'']], [[Minos|FSS ''Minos'']], and [[Parker (Individual DropShip)|FSS ''Parker'']], could have survived if they had abandoned the Fusiliers, but instead chose to fight until destroyed.<ref name="NAIS4SW2p44">''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2'', pp. 44–51: "Sarna"</ref> | After arriving in the Sarna system, [[AFFS]] forces led by the aggressive behavior of General [[Gordon Hartstone]], the combat commander of the [[Fifth Syrtis Fusiliers]], combined with a lack of military intelligence about the garrison on the planet cost the invading [[Federated Suns]] forces dearly. Hartstone had his [[DropShip]]s accelerate towards Sarna at high speed, faster than the DropShips transporting the other forces, intent on arriving two days early and thereby giving his Fusiliers the chance to make their mark in the invasion. What the invasion forces were unaware of was that all four regiments of [[McCarron's Armored Cavalry]] were on Sarna, and the Fusiliers dropped in their midst. The initial landing zone was intended to be just north of the Gray River, but the proposed landing site proved untenable due to heavy mud and floodwater left over from local flooding, forcing the Fusiliers' DropShips to ground on higher ground to the northwest. As the Fusiliers deployed, the empty DropShips in orbit detected more than a hundred [[aerospace fighter]]s converging on the Fusiliers position, forcing the DropShips in orbit to land on Sarna after destroying the defending AFFS aerospace fighters. The Capellan fighters then began an intense strafing and bombing campaign, savaging the Fusiliers attached aerospace wing and ground forces. The Second and Third Battalions of the Fusiliers were subjected to intense fighter attack with heavy casualties, while the First Battalion was harassed by fast-moving [[Savannah Master]] hovercraft. Even with supporting fire from the grounded DropShips, the Fusiliers losses were catastrophic; after shattering the three 'Mech battalions with aerospace forces and ambushes and leaving just a company of Fusilier 'Mechs fleeing into deep forest under the cover of forest fires behind them, the Big Mac used their aerospace fighters to destroy the bulk of the Fusiliers ten supporting regiments, with just two regiments surviving. Ten of the twenty DropShips that transported the conventional forces to Sarna were destroyed; the crews of six of the destroyed DropShips, the [[Calona|FSS ''Calona'']], [[Deborah (Individual DropShip)|FSS ''Deborah'']], [[Hasek (Individual DropShip)|FSS ''Hasek'']], [[Haversham (Individual DropShip)|FSS ''Haversham'']], [[Minos|FSS ''Minos'']], and [[Parker (Individual DropShip)|FSS ''Parker'']], could have survived if they had abandoned the Fusiliers, but instead chose to fight until destroyed.<ref name="NAIS4SW2p44">''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2'', pp. 44–51: "Sarna"</ref> | ||
| − | [[Westrick's Black Cobras]] and the [[Screaming Eagles]] were still on approach to Sarna when the Fusiliers were destroyed, and were faced with an invidious choice; Sarna was obviously a brutal trap, but aborting the invasion would leave them in breach of contract, placing any future employment in jeopardy. The commanding officers of the three regiments including Westrick decided to press ahead with the invasion, but to alter the plans given to them by the COC in the hope that they could hold out long enough for reinforcements to arrive. All three regiments dropped at the Blackhole DZ, | + | [[Westrick's Black Cobras]] and the [[Screaming Eagles]] were still on approach to Sarna when the Fusiliers were destroyed, and were faced with an invidious choice; Sarna was obviously a brutal trap, but aborting the invasion would leave them in breach of contract, placing any future employment in jeopardy. The commanding officers of the three regiments including Westrick decided to press ahead with the invasion, but to alter the plans given to them by the COC in the hope that they could hold out long enough for reinforcements to arrive. All three regiments dropped at the Blackhole DZ, two hundred kilometers away from where the Big Mac had destroyed the Fusiliers, after their DropShips made multiple in-flight course corrections to confuse the Big Mac's fighters. The drop was successful, with the mercenaries arriving on Sarna on the 29th of May and swiftly destroying the local militia forces near Backtal, securing the landing zone to enable their attached conventional forces to deploy. Narrowly avoiding a hidden minefield, [[Westrick's Black Cobras]] secured a weapons factory near Backtal after surprising the defending militia forces before the munitions stored there could be destroyed. Fighters from the Big Mac subsequently destroyed the factory complex, but not before the Black Cobras had secured significant quantities of [[autocannon]] ammunition and [[vibrabomb]]s.<ref name="NAIS4SW2p44"/> |
With [[ComStar]] enacting a communications [[interdiction]] in response to the invasion of Sarna, the other DropShips and JumpShips in the system that had transported the invasion force acted on the last messages they received - false messages apparently indicating that everything was proceeding according to plan - and left the Sarna system, leaving the mercenaries unsupported. The Big Mac, believing that the mercenary drop was a decoy intended to lure them away from the capital, maintained a cautious defense until August, when it became apparent that the mercenaries were unsupported. In late August the four regiments of the Big Mac arrived near Backtal, where the Cobras and Eagles had been nervously awaiting a rapid demise; with the Big Mac finally attacking, the two mercenary commands elected to make their last stand in a region known as Graves Hollow, a forested valley some twenty kilometers in length, with numerous locations where strongholds could be fashioned or ambushes launched.<ref name="NAIS4SW2p44"/> | With [[ComStar]] enacting a communications [[interdiction]] in response to the invasion of Sarna, the other DropShips and JumpShips in the system that had transported the invasion force acted on the last messages they received - false messages apparently indicating that everything was proceeding according to plan - and left the Sarna system, leaving the mercenaries unsupported. The Big Mac, believing that the mercenary drop was a decoy intended to lure them away from the capital, maintained a cautious defense until August, when it became apparent that the mercenaries were unsupported. In late August the four regiments of the Big Mac arrived near Backtal, where the Cobras and Eagles had been nervously awaiting a rapid demise; with the Big Mac finally attacking, the two mercenary commands elected to make their last stand in a region known as Graves Hollow, a forested valley some twenty kilometers in length, with numerous locations where strongholds could be fashioned or ambushes launched.<ref name="NAIS4SW2p44"/> | ||