Editing Atrean Hussars

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| image          = [[Image:Atrean Hussars.jpg]]
| Designation    = Atrean Hussars
| formed         = [[2923]]
| Disbanded      = Prior to [[3130]]<ref name=BTFmsg852584>[https://bg.battletech.com/forums/the-successor-states/atrean-hussars/msg852584/#msg852584 Øystein's post on Atrean Hussars' fate]</ref>
| Previous Designation = 
| Nickname       = Phoenix from the ashes<ref name=FMFWL-47>''Field Manual: Free Worlds League'', p. 47: "Atrean Hussars"</ref>
| Affiliation    = [[Free Worlds League]]
| Parent Command = [[Atrean Dragoons]]
| Sub-Command    = 
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Founded in [[2923]], the '''Atrean Hussars''' were formed as an experiment by [[Captain-General of the Free Worlds League|Captain-General]] [[Samuel Marik]] to try and get around the restrictions of the [[Home Defense Act]]. Despite their direct loyalty to the Captain-General, the relatively young age and the poor performance of the Hussars have led to the unit being close to disbandment for most of its existence.<ref name=HM>''House Marik (The Free Worlds League)'', p. 49</ref><ref name=FMFWL-47/>

==History==
===Formation===
Facing a contentious Parliament, with the provinces beginning to make extensive use of the Home Defense Act to withhold troop support from the Captain-General, Samuel Marik attempted get around this situation by forming a new regiment directly loyal to him and equipped using captured [[Capellan]] [['Mech]]s. However the Hussars low origins and, until the [[FWLM]]'s expansion in the 3040s, status as the youngest regiment in the League prevented them from attracting competent leadership. While not lacking in supplies or equipment, they also did not get the best opportunities for combat or booty.<ref name=HM/><ref name=FMFWL-47/>

The Hussars appeared ready to throw off the lack of prestige when [[Janos Marik]], then heir to the Captain-Generalcy, took command of the unit, but they spent more time combating general strikes, terrorism, rioting and antigovernment violence on their garrison world of [[Ling]] than fending off [[Lyran]] raids. In the end, Janos Marik's time as commander of the Hussars did nothing to improve the pedigree of the unit.<ref name=HM/>

===Anton's Revolt===
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===Fourth Succession War===
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===Andurien Secession===
True to their origins, the Hussars were one of many loyalist units that took part in the [[Andurien Secession|Andurien War]]. Being first committed to the assault on [[Shiro III]], the overeager Hussars believed a 4-to-1 numerical advantage would carry the day against [[5th Defenders of Andurien]], but the battle-hardened Anduriens almost destroyed the Hussars until being pushed off-world by the [[1st Marik Militia]] and [[1st Fusiliers of Oriente]]. The Hussars then settled into a support role for these units against the [[1st Defenders of Andurien]].<ref name=BW1>''Historical: Brush Wars'', pp. 72–73</ref>

The near debacle on Shiro III was nothing compared to that of [[Conquista]]. Landing with the [[2nd Free Worlds Guards]] to assist the [[6th Marik Militia]], the three regiments methodically corralled the 5th Defenders of Andurien. However Colonel Eleanor Wansi wanted revenge for the brutal fighting the 5th had inflicted on the Hussars on Shiro III and advanced too quickly, allowing a gap to form which allowed the Fifth to savagely maul the rearguard of the Sixth Marik Militia. With the Loyalist plan in ruins and tensions with the Sixth rising to boiling point, the Hussars were deemed a liability and rotated out of the Andurien theater.<ref name=BW2>''Historical: Brush Wars'', p. 77</ref>

===3040s to Clan Invasion===
The Hussars poor performance continued when a raid on [[Solaris]] in [[3043]] ended in disaster.  The final nail in the Hussars' coffin seemed to have occurred in [[3045]], when a stray round killed Eleanor Wansi during the [[Forger '45]] exercises on [[Abadan]]. Already suffering heavy losses in the war games, unit morale collapsed and the [[LCCC]] began organizing the paperwork to disband the unit. It was the unit's then executive office Annya Baker who successfully argued for one last chance to reverse the Hussars fortunes, in the face of severe repercussions if she failed.<ref name=FMFWL-47/>

Baker's response was the "Harrowing": a brutal purge of troublemakers and those unwilling to devote themselves to the Hussars. A third of the unit was dismissed within a month of Baker taking command, barely two battalions remaining, but those left were driven yet further by the "cast-iron bitch of highest order" to their limits and beyond. LCCC's trust in Baker was rewarded when Hussars faced the elite of the League forces in the [[Foresight '46]] exercises, fighting like demons and taking down almost twice their number in [[Marik Militia]] and [[Free Worlds Guards]] regiments before being defeated.<ref name=FMFWL-47/>

The first test of the Hussars after the "Harrowing" was a raid on [[Hsien]] to pin down the [[2nd FedCom RCT]] long enough for [[SAFE]] operatives to access a research base there, which it ably achieved with only minimal losses.<ref name=FMFWL-47/>

===Operation Guerrero and FedCom Civil War era===
The Hussars next assignment, the liberation of [[Talitha]] during [[Operation GUERRERO]] was also a success, but failed to garner any commendations from the other units taking part, the [[Iron Guard]] and Sixth Marik Militia, who specifically still blamed the Hussars for the losses on Conquista.<ref name=FMFWL2>''Field Manual: Free Worlds League'', p. 48: "Atrean Hussars Unit Profile"</ref> The Hussars became the main garrison force for Talitha.<ref name=FMFWL3>''Field Manual: Free Worlds League'', p. 111</ref>

However by the 3060s the LCCC had recognized the Hussars had failed to forge a distinct identity in the FWLM beyond their poor reputation. After receiving the resignation of Colonel Reber Bennundo, in [[3062]] the Captain-General ordered the Atrean Hussars and Atrean Dragoons amalgamated under a common command structure. While retaining their own name, the Hussars effectively became a fourth Atrean Dragoon regiment under the general command structure of the Dragoons.

Initially the unit's reputation and morale plummeted back to pre-Baker levels, but the new commander of the combined Hussar/Dragoon brigade, [[Julian Langsdorf (31st c.)|Julian Langsdorf]], made extensive efforts to integrate the Hussars, alternately helped and hindered by the Dragoons regiment's parochial views of Hussars. Of all the units of the combined force the Hussars have under gone the most changes and gained the most benefits, including extensive expansion of its rolling upgrade program which has resulted in the unit being rated as 70% upgraded, as well as receiving a company of [[Achileus]] [[battle armor]].<ref name=FMU>''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 147: "Atrean Hussars"</ref>

===Jihad===
During the [[Jihad]] the Atrean Hussars didn't serve in many front-line battles. Instead they trained alongside the [[11th Atrean Dragoons]] for most of the decade and became a sort of secondary school for new troops loyal to [[Corinne Marik]]. These new troops were later used to rebuild other units.<ref name=fm85-82>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 82</ref>

===Service to the Marik Commonwealth===
After the removal of the [[Word of Blake]] and posting of the [[2nd Free Worlds Legionnaires|2nd]] and [[8th Free Worlds Legionnaires]] off-world, the Hussars and [[11th Atrean Dragoons]] were held back to serve as the primary defenders of the [[Marik Commonwealth]]'s capital of [[Atreus (FWL)|Atreus]]. While having avoided any significant losses during the Jihad, many Hussar troops were stripped away to help rebuild the Commonwealth's other more shattered units.<ref name=FRFWLM-8>''Field Report: FWLM Military'', p. 8: "Marik Commonwealth"</ref>

The intense skill the Atrean Hussars-trained troops demonstrated that the unit had finally shed its poor performance. As a result the unit was assigned as the main garrison force of Atreus and later the shipyards at [[Ionus]]. More importantly, the Atrean Hussars have been designated as the senior regiment of the Militie National, the Commonwealth's defensive command.<ref name=fm85-82/> They were still guarding the Ionus shipyards in 3085.<ref name=FM3085p91/>

===Dark Age===
At some point between 3085 and [[3130]] the Atrean Hussars were destroyed in combat.<ref name=BTFmsg852584/> The unit was never rebuilt either by the Marik Commonwealth or the reborn Free Worlds League.<ref>''Field Manual: 3145'', no mention of the Atrean Hussars in this book</ref>

==Officers==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Rank
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Name
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Command
|-
| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the Atrean Hussars'''
|-
| ||[[Janos Marik]]||Prior to becoming [[Captain-General of the Free Worlds League|Captain-General]]
|-
| [[Colonel]]||[[Eleanor Wansi]]||[[3025]] - [[3045]]<ref name=HMp108>''House Marik (The Free Worlds League)'', p. 108: "FWLM Deployment Table"</ref>
|-
| Colonel||[[Annya Baker]]||3045 - [[3048]]<ref name=FMFWL-47/>
|-
| Colonel||[[Reber Bennundo]]||[[3050]] - [[3062]]<ref name=20YU56a>''20 Year Update'', p. 56: "FWLM Deployment Table - 3050"</ref>
|-
| Colonel||[[Said Berridge]]||[[3067]]<ref name=FMUp159>''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 159: "FWLM Deployment Table - 3067"</ref>
|-
| Colonel||[[Evelyn Panfili]]||[[3085]]<ref name=FM3085p91>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 91: "FWLM Deployment Table - 3085"</ref>
|-
|}

==Tactics==
Being primarily a light-medium weight regiment, the Hussars favor offensive operations, where their speed and maneuverability can be used to best advantage, and to try and minimize being on the receiving end of return fire from other similar sized but heavier regiments.<ref name=FMFWL2/>

==Composition History==
===3025===
'''Atrean Hussars''' (Regular/Reliable)<ref name=HMp108/>
* CO: Colonel Eleanor Wansi

=== 3028 ===
'''Atrean Hussars''' (Regiment\Regular\Reliable)<ref name=HBSp86/>
:Note: At this point in time the command was stationed on [[Ling]].<ref name=HBSp86>''Historical: Brush Wars'', p. 86</ref>

===3050===
'''Atrean Hussars ''' (Regiment/Regular/Reliable)<ref name=20YU56>''20 Year Update'', p. 56: "Free Worlds League Deployment Table"</ref>
:* CO: Colonel Reber Bennundo<ref name=20YU56/>
: Note: At this point in time the unit was stationed on [[Ling]].<ref name=20YU56/>

===3054===
'''Atrean Hussars''' (Regular/Reliable)<ref name=ORp37>''Objective Raids'', p. 37: "FWLM Deployment Table - 3054"</ref>
* CO: Colonel Reber Bennundo

===3059===
'''Atrean Hussars''' (1 [[Regiment]]/Regular/Reliable)<ref name=FMFWL2/>
* CO/1st Battalion: [[Colonel]] Reber Bennundo
:* XO: [[Force Commander]] [[Harvay Eaton]]
* 2nd Battalion: Force Commander [[Sam Caughey]]
* 3rd Battalion: Force Commander [[Kadan Hayton]]

- One medium and one light battalion<br>
- 30 percent 'Mechs upgraded

'''Atrean Hussars Air Wing (Shen's Dragons)''' (1 [[Wing (Military Unit)|Wing]]/Regular/Reliable)<ref name=FMFWL2/>
* Wing Commander: [[Commodore]] [[Ts'ung Shen]]

'''52nd Armor Regiment''' (1 Regiment/Regular/Reliable)<ref name=FMFWL2/>
* Armor Commander: Force Commander [[Honet Lee]]

'''23rd Marik Regulars''' ([[Brigade]]/Green/Reliable)<ref name=FMFWL2/>
* Troop Commander: [[Lieutenant Colonel]] [[Helen Walker]]

===3067===
'''Atrean Hussars''' (Regular/Reliable)<ref name=FMUp159/>
* CO: Colonel [[Said Berridge]]

'''Atrean Hussars Air Wing''' (2 [[Squadron]]s/Regular/Reliable)<ref name=FMUp159/>
* CO: Commodore Ts'ung Shen

'''52nd Armored Regiment''' (Regular/Reliable)<ref name=FMUp159/>
* CO: Force Commander Honet Lee

'''23rd Marik Regulars''' ([[Brigade]]/Green/Reliable)<ref name=FMUp159/>
*CO: Lieutenant Colonel Helen Walker

===3079===
'''Atrean Hussars ''' (Regiment/Regular/Fanatical)<ref name="frfwlm8">''Field Report: FWLM'', p. 8</ref>
: Note: At this point in time the unit was stationed on [[Atreus (FWL)|Atreus]].<ref name="frfwlm8"/>

===3085===
'''Atrean Hussars''' (Regular/Fanatical)<ref name=FM3085p91/>
* CO: Colonel [[Evelyn Panfili]]

'''Atrean Hussars Air Wing''' (Veteran/Reliable)<ref name=FM3085p91/>
* CO: [[Captain]] [[Ismael Rowe]]

'''52nd Armored Regiment''' (Regular/Fanatical)<ref name=FM3085p91/>
* CO: Lieutenant Colonel [[Marcell Vinci]]

'''23rd Marik Regulars''' (Brigade/Veteran/Reliable)<ref name=FM3085p91/>
* CO: Colonel [[Stephan Belluomi]]

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Camomarikatreanhussars.png|[[Galleon]] light tank in Atrean Hussars livery
</gallery> ‎

==References==
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==Bibliography==
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* ''[[20 Year Update]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Free Worlds League]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Updates]]''
* ''[[Field Report: FWLM]]''
* ''[[Historical: Brush Wars]]''
* ''[[House Marik (The Free Worlds League)]]''
* ''[[Objective Raids]]''
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[[Category:Free Worlds League Commands|Atrean Hussars]]