Tarsus Bodoli
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Tarsus Bodoli | |
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| Affiliation | Draconis Combine |
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| Rank | Tai-sho[1] |
Tarsus Bodoli was the commanding officer of the Galedon Military District's Matsuida Prefecture as of 3025.[1]
History
Tai-sho Bodoli commanded the Matsuida Prefecture, located in the Draconis Combine's Galedon Military District, in 3025. Simultaneously, Bodoli was the commanding officer of the Twelfth Galedon Regulars and was stationed on Matsuida.[1]
Wapakoneta
During the Fourth Succession War, Bodoli's Twelfth Regulars and the Third Proserpina Hussars were dispatched to assault the Federated Suns' world of Wapakoneta in late 3028. Facing the defending Beta and Delta Regiments of Wolf's Dragoons, Bodoli quickly fell for the mercenaries' initial feinting attacks and left a paltry force behind to defend the Regulars' airfield while the unit's main body marched off in pursuit of the Dragoons' skirmishers. While bold, the Dragoons' skirmishers were annihilated by the combined force of the Twelfth Regulars and Third Hussars and the flanking attack they died to buy time for failed to reach the under-defended airfield before Bodoli and Bruce Bernstein's men returned from their victory. Still, in the five minutes it took the Combine units to destroy the attacking Dragoons, two-thirds of their aerospace fighters were destroyed by the mercenaries.[2]
Bodoli and Bernstein, enraged by the loss of their fighter support, told their men to treat the Dragoons without mercy and began marching in order to find and eliminate the remaining Dragoons forces on-world. While attempting to draw out the mercenaries by advancing on the civilian city of Garolla, two lances of Bodoli's Regulars were cut off in the Banth Forest and engaged in combat by Delta Regiment's Second Company. The ensuing battle went poorly for the Dragoons and the forest was set ablaze in the confusion but the Regulars ultimately claimed victory in the skirmish when the Dragoons' company commander was killed. The next three months saw few set battles as, unbeknownst to Bodoli and Bernstein, the two Dragoons' regiments had split into numerous small forces in order to wage a campaign of hit-and-fade guerrilla warfare.[2]
The Combine's losses were exaggerated by Bodoli's command decisions, as he used his command seniority over Bernstein to keep their forces packed into concentrated convoys that made for easy targets. Bodoli refused Bernstein's request to break their troops into smaller concentrations in order to more effectively hunt the Dragoons and in late November matters came to a head when the Twelfth Regulars and Third Hussars split apart. While this brought the Combine's command cohesion to a halt, the dispersed Hussars began catching their mercenary opponents off guard and by 3029 had them on the run. On 3 January, three companies of Hussars were lured into a trap and ambushed by the entirety of Delta and Beta Regiments, losing nearly half of their men before finally rejoining Bodoli's Regulars for rest and repairs.[2]