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Line 11: | faction2 = (Defender)<br />[[Lyran Commonwealth]] | faction2 = (Defender)<br />[[Lyran Commonwealth]] | commander1 = Unknown | commander1 = Unknown − | commander2 = [[Archon]] [[Michael Steiner (25th c.)|Michael Steiner]] + | commander2 = [[Archon]] [[Michael Steiner]] | forces1= [[Second Sword of Light]] | forces1= [[Second Sword of Light]] | forces2= Unknown | forces2= Unknown Line 20:
Line 20: ==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> + 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]]'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> Though this Combine attack was neither successful nor strategically significant, it marked a major turning point in armed warfare. Though this Combine attack was neither successful nor strategically significant, it marked a major turning point in armed warfare.
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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]] [[ | + | 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]]'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> |
Though this Combine attack was neither successful nor strategically significant, it marked a major turning point in armed warfare. | Though this Combine attack was neither successful nor strategically significant, it marked a major turning point in armed warfare. | ||