Notable Battles

Battles fought during clan invasion by FRR units that still exist

Radstadt: (Oct 3050) This is the place where clans were stopped the first time by the Drak0ns aerospace Kapten Tyra Miraborg, sacrificing her own life for the Republic. Överste Sleipness may have wanted to surrender at Radstadt but the government and religious leaders had both proclaimed their willingness to fight until the bitter end.

Memmingen: (Nov 3051) The clan force was so small that they had to adopt a mobile strategy, a slugging match with the Drak0ns would have proved fatal. Unfortunately the clan commanders patience ran out, when the Drak0ns slipped from his grasp during the battle at Danton. In a rage he ordered the village of Danton and its neighbour razed as an example to the rest of the planet. The Drak0ns fearing more civilian casulties retreated offworld for Satalice, but not before vowing to remember what happened at Danton and Greenvale forever, and to make Marcos Radick pay.

Hainfield: (Dec 3051) 2nd Freemen were deployed in a strong position around the Hainfield Central. Galaxy commander Anton Fetladral recognized that a campaign favored the enemy, as they had more mechs and on open terrain they would have caused major losses for them. He instead chose another attack path, because of the lack of aerospace support, he could drop his mechs into the sprawling, open parks of the town and engage enemy. Reluctant too harm their city or its people, the Freemen skirmished only briefly before withdrawing to Carse.

Satalice: (Nov 3051-Jan 3052) Helped by the remnants of several regiments Satalice was under the overal command of Överste Hjalmar Olsen. Olsen was joined by Ragnar Magnusson, heir to the throne. After Gunzburg had fallen to a single mechwarrior, Prince Haakon had charged his son with resisting the invasion to the last. Fresh from training with the Wolf Dragoons on Outreach, claimed his right as Rasalhague Kapten to command a besättning of mechs. Olsen assigned him an independent unit of veterans, Vargjagare. With instructions to harry and delay the Wolves whenever possible. The defence on Satalice almost proved successfull, but in the end Ragnar was captured by clan Wolf, with those news the Drak0ns withdrew to fight another day.

Carse: (Feb 3052) The clan leaders poor choice of landing zones, allowed the command staff of the 2nd Freemen to scout the composition of the enemy and recognize that they were once again hopelessly outgunned. The constant rigid storms that whip Carse grounded all aerospace fighters, however, providing the Freemen with cover when they met the clan warriors at Molde and Trosa. They earned the Wolves respect before forced to retreat offworld to Ueda.

Skandia: (Feb 3052) The defeat of the 3rd Drak0ns, who had twice faced the Wolves and returned, was given top priority by the clan warriors. The fight for Skandia was tough and unforgiving, names of individual battles mean little; they only represent convenient means of dividing up what was essentially one relentless fight from the moment the Wolves set foot on the planet, but again the Drak0ns had to fall back with major losses after two weeks of battle.

Lothan: (Apr 3052) The Kavalleri position was compromised at several occasions and they were undone by a Headhunter hit, that found and destroyed the regimental headquarters. The Kavalleris final mistake was to turn and fight in a valley, which offered little cover. The surviving members of Kavalleri (2 companies) retreated offworld to Ueda.

Fall of Planet Rasalhague

As news of the imminent fall of Tyr and Ymir was broadcast daily over public media, despair took hold of the people of Reykjavik. Even though the capital was in no immidiate danger, most realized that the other two cities were doomed. Once they had fallen, their attackers would undoubtedly come for Reykjavik. General Mansdotter ordered the Drak0ns to break contact with the Fourth Wolf Guards and return to the city as quickly as possible. Though their tactics had ensured that the enemy's progress toward the city was slow and costly, the Drak0ns were needed for what would be the defenders final stand.
Elected Prince Magnusson, after days of tortured deliberation decided to escape. Despite his obvious agony at abandoning the people, his decicion to leave the Rasalhague was predictable. Years earlier, Haakon Magnusson had been known as the Silver Fox, a much beloved guerilla leader who fought the Draconis Combine for the independence of the Rasalhague worlds. He was renowned for his hit-and-run tactics and his ability to elude capture. When the war ended and the worlds of Rasalhague were independent, its people made this charismatic warrior their first Elected Prince, an honor that swelled his already large ego.
His experience as a guerilla and his ego convinced Prince Magnusson to leave Rasalhague. He believed that if he stayed and was captured by the Wolves, resistance throughout the republic would collapse completely. He concluded that it was better to leave now and let what remained of his domain continue to fight the Clans than to stay and suffer a hero's defeat.
The Elected Prince boarded a DropShip in the early hours of 13 July. Joined by his closed advisors, he left Rasalhague for the Norseman, his Star Lord class JumpShip. To ensure the safety of their leader, General Mansdotter grudgingly sent the entire AeroWing of the Flying Drak0ns to escort the Prince's DropShip. As the DropShip cleared the planet's atmosphere, it was immidiately flanked by Wolf fighters. The Wolf fighters did not attack the DropShip, knowing that the fanatical Drak0n fighters were ready to pounce. They seemed satisfied merely to follow the DropShip to its rendezvous with the Norseman.
Mansdotter and Magnusson had no way of knowing that every move the Clan had made, from the seeming blunder at Asgard to the Wolf fighters trailing the Elected Prince's DropShip, was part of an elaborate plan to bring about the fall of Rasalhague as quickly as possible. Forcing the Elected Prince to leave the planet was the key to the plan. Khan Ulric Kerensky knew that if Magnusson was captured or killed, it would enrage the defenders, turning an already potent force into a fanatical army ready to avenge their leader at any cost. Magnusson needed to 'escape' in order for their plan to succeed.
The Fourth Wolf Guards' landing near Asgard allowed Elected Prince to feel the potential danger, yet gave him time to escape. Khan Ulric Kerensky correctly guessed that the Elected Prince would order a large escort of his best fighters to protect him as he fled, thus neutralizing Drak0ns' fearsome air support. The large number of Wolf fighters patiently following the Elected Prince and his entourage were there to ensure that once the Elected Prince was safe, the Flying Drak0ns would think twice about heading back to the Rasalhague, low on fuel and facing major losses. As hoped, the Flying Drak0ns jumped out with the Norseman.
The warriors and citizens of Rasalhague were sad to see their Prince leave, but his departure did not lessen their resolve to fight. The defenders of Tyr and Ymir bowed to the inevitable when Wolf forces launched all-out attacks the following morning. Ymir fell within hours, the remnants of the Third Freemen forced to surrender or freeze in the arctic cold. At Tyr, most of the First Freemen were overrun. The few survivors abandoned the city and withdrew into their fortified firebase, enduring a month-long siege before finally surrendering.
The Wolf units assigned to Ymir and Tyr immidiately boarded their Dropships and headed for Reykjavik. They faced defending forces of almost full two regiments of 'mechs, most of them from the two Drak0n regiments, with supporting tank, infantry, and artillery regiments. The defenders had become fanatical.
This attitude worried Khan Ulric Kerensky. The past months had taught him to respect the willingness of Inner Sphere warriors to die when reason dictated surrender. He lacked the time and desire to engage in a bloody house-to-house fight with people who preferred death to surrender. There seemed little choice, particularly after an emissary sent to propose an honorable surrender war nearly killed by Drak0n warriors before General Mansdotter intervened.
It was with extreme reluctance that Khan Ulric Kerensky ordered the Wolves to attack Reykjavik on 15 July. The ferocity of the fighting exceeded even Khan Ulric Kerensky's worst fears. The Drak0ns took the fighting into the streets of Reykjavik at the cost of the lives of many of its citizens. Such was the fervor of the Rasalhague defenders, particulary the Drak0ns, that the Wolves faced mass destruction previously unencountered. The Wolf warriors reacted in kind, driven to new heights of ruthlessness by their inability to understand how troops could callously destroy the city they had sworn to protect and still consider themselves warriors to be treated with honor. The Wolf warriors considered their opponents lunatics, undeserving of battlefield honor. No mercy was offered, and none was expected.
Two days later, Khan Ulric Kerensky toured the remains of Reykjavik. What he saw was enough to harden the softest heart. Over 70 percent of the city's buildings had been destroyed beyond repair. The citys's central park, which had been a lush forest with fountains and lakes, now looked as if it belonged on a cratered moon. The Riksdag Complex, where once the goverment had passed laws, was now a hellish graveyard for the blackened hulks of the last Drak0n 'Mechs.

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