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Clan Wolf also leads the Warden faction of the Clans, which believes that their mission is not to conquer the Inner Sphere, but to protect it from external threats. It is this reason, among others, that often pits them against Clan Jade Falcon, a staunch Crusader Clan. Taking the most worlds of any invading Clan and maintaining a large presence in the Inner Sphere, Clan Wolf is sure to be a rather dangerous opponent to all opposing it.
Arrayed against Clan Wolf was the Tenth Army, composed of some of the best divisions and regiments the ComGuards had to offer. Having pinpointed the exact position of the Clan landing, Precentor V Margo Koivu deployed her forces along the trees covering the foothills of the Porozistu Mountains.
Contact came as Clan Wolf passed the little hamlet of Forest's End. The ComStar forces engaged the Third Battle Cluster of Beta Galaxy and the Seventh Battle Cluster of Gamma Galaxy, holding the 283rd Division to fend off the Fourth Wolf Guards of Alpha Galaxy. The 283rd, though inexperienced, fought better than expected, and prevented Clan Wolf closing a loop that would have trapped the divisions involved in the primary engagement.
While the 283rd held off the Fourth Wolf Guards, elements of the Clan's right flank were harried by members of the elite Sixty-sixth Division. The Wolf Khans, seeing no easy way around the attackers, hit them in the center of their offensive line. The concerted pressure weakened the ComGuards' formation and forced the 278th from their hilltop position.
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Hard-pressed, the ComGuards started to fall back under cover of artillery support. Aerospace elements on either side were of little help to those on the ground, as they were fighting a running battle of their own. The retreat was accomplished in good order, and the Tenth Army regrouped 20 kilometers from Brzo and Skupo, establishing a new defensive line.
Precentor Koivu was concerned when her forces withdrew from Forest's End without pursuit. She had expected to be relentlessly harried, especially since Clan Wolf had blooded several divisions. Yet, as she positioned her forces outside Skupo and Brzo, the enemy was not in sight.
The Precentor's concern was validated when the Clan attempted to skirt the Tenth in an attempt to take the enemy's rear or bypass them entirely in a drive for Skupo. The ComGuards deployed scouts and fighters to find the Wolves, but the recon fighters were harassed by Clan Wolf fighters, and so Koivu's scouts found nothing but trees and hills.
As the ComGuards started to fall back, Alpha Galaxy's Thirteenth Wolf Guards slipped behind the 166th Division. The Precentor immediately ordered her reserve divisions forward, sending the veteran 282nd Division to take on the Thirteenth Wolf Guards and force them away from the 166th and Skupo.
The next two hours would be crucial. The ComGuards began to pull back from their position, only to be attacked by the rest of Clan Wolf. They could not halt their withdrawal without stretching their forces dangerously thin in order to prevent Clan Wolf from slipping through their lines. The Precentor ordered her reserve forces to stand firm in the face of the Wolf juggernaut to cover the retreat.
The 282nd Division made contact with the Thirteenth Wolf Guards, and the ensuing fight, though far more costly for the 282nd, forced the Wolf Spiders to abandon their drive. By the time the Wolf Spiders pulled back, most of the Tenth Army stood on the crest of a series of steep hills overlooking the two cities and the road that connected them, less than five kilometers away.
Before the ComGuard forces could dig in, Clan Wolf launched another offensive. Again they engaged the ComGuards up and down the line. When the defenders weakened, they hit the center of the line with a vengeance, straining the defensive perimeter to the breaking point. Having successfully broken through, the warriors of Clan Wolf stood on the road between the two cities.
It was beginning to look as if Clan Wolf would encircle Brzo, trapping most of the Tenth Army. The Wolf Spiders were in for a shock, however. As they closed on what appeared to be an open hilltop, 'Mechs, tanks, and squads of infantry rose out of a system of trenches to fire on the stunned Wolf warriors. The fighting in the trenches was fierce and unforgiving. Only sheer stubbornness and an unwillingness to retreat saved the Wolf Spiders.
After an hour of short-range firefights, the ComGuard division pulled back, with the Wolf Spiders on their heels. They reached the road, ready to continue the push northward and threatening to encircle Skupo. Elements of the Ninth Army appeared from the northwest, supported by aerospace fighters and artillery. The fresh troops barrelled into the bulge that Clan Wolf had created between the two cities. Elements of the Ninth were also diverted to reinforce the reeling 138th.
By midnight the battleline resembled the letter "M." Clan Wolf had suffered a major disappointment in being prevented from closing a loop around either Skupo or Brzo. The ComGuards had achieved a great, but costly, victory because the Tenth Army had held long enough for the Ninth to arrive.
The Precentor and her staff made an important discovery during the fighting. Not only was Clan Wolf being conservative with their ammunition (unlike the other Clans), but they had configured their OmniMechs with a heavy bias toward energy weapons. In addition, most of the Elementals fought without their usual SRM pack, and supply trains were following closely behind the second line. This frugality made one thing certain: the ComGuards could not count on Clan Wolf running out of ammunition.
The fight for Skupo and Brzo continued with only short respites. It was centered on the Wolf Spiders, who renewed their efforts against the 138th Division. Under heavy fire from the Clan, the demoralized and inexperienced warriors broke and ran. Despite the reassignment of reserves from the Ninth Army as reinforcements for the 138th, the Wolf Spiders destroyed their prey completely. As Khan Kerensky hunted, the Eleventh Wolf Guards of Delta Galaxy engaged the 278th Division, and the 166th fought a hit-and-run battle with the remnants of the Thirteenth Wolf Guards.
The ComGuard forces were finally overwhelmed. Skupo fell to Clan Wolf. The ComGuards could not slow the progress of the Thirteenth Wolf Guards as they continued to push north to connect with the rest of their force. The resulting encirclement would trap whole ComGuard divisions in Skupo. Rather than risk the loss of so many warriors, the ComGuards withdrew and conceded Skupo to Clan Wolf.
Even retreat would prove difficult, because Clan Wolf launched a major push at virtually the same time. This caused considerable confusion among the retreating forces. ComGuard division commanders are to be praised for preventing the confusion from becoming a panic. As it was, the Wolf Guards captured almost two hundred warriors in their encirclement of Skupo.
The Fourth Wolf Guards and the Third Battle Cluster reappeared in the bulge. Both had been conspicuous by their absence during the past two days, and their arrival was dreaded, with good reason. Their main axis of attack was aimed directly at Brzo. The force of so many Clan heavy and assault OmniMechs attempting to breach the defenses around the city wa daunting, and it was understandable when the Tenth Army bent. It is to their credit that they did not immediately break.
The divisions of the Ninth Army did not wait for an order to launch their own offensive in support of the Tenth, hoping to slow the Wolf offensive. The two Clan Wolf assault clusters shifted their axis. The Ninth's assault, instead of helping to hold the Clan forces, allowed Clan Wolf to breach the defensive ring where the two armies should have met. This split the ComGuard forces into two groups, a dangerous situation.
In response to these new attacks, the Eleventh Army was dispatched to reinforce the faltering defense of Brzo. Clan Wolf was expected to attack the Ninth Army, but advance scouts reported the Clan devoting considerable effort to raiding ComGuard supply depots and creating and concealing depots of their own.
Though it was obvious that Clan Wolf was willing to use its mobility to work around advantageous ComStar positions, they remained in the Porozistu Mountains. The Eleventh ComGuards had been assigned to that area to take part in a direct engagement with ilKhan Ulric Kerensky's forces.
Clan Wolf gradually broke off individual battles to regroup for the final engagement in the mountains. The fighting began amid a raging thunderstorm. Clan Wolf moved forward slowly, feinting and thrusting to maintain their advantage. The links to their supply bases held, and ComStar's few attempts to disrupt these lines were quickly smashed. Even with this advantage, what little ground was taken was won at a heavy price. Khan Garth Radick was slain commanding Beta Galaxy.
Clan Wolf inflicted heavy enough damage on the ComStar forces that the Thirteenth Army was committed to the mountains. Before the new ComStar force could join the engagement, however, the battle for Tukayyid ended.
Where nature's laws threatened the weary;
When food, water, even air itself ran low,
It took just a command, a word, a smile,
From the General to light the way.
He was comfort, stern courage, compassion
To our sires as he led them from the fires
That grew and fed on those they left behind.
The just deaths of the traitors frightened some
There among the darkness and alien stars.
A few lost heart and began with quavering resolve
To question the Great Father's plan.
With stern compassion he spoke and all was revealed;
How their destiny was the Hidden Hope
Of all mankind and how their sons' sons
Would one day return to the Inner Sphere
Bringing back the enlightenment of the
Star League
To those unfortunate they had left behind.
Such was their right, such is our legacy of blood.
There will be a time when our descendants
Return to reclaim what is our right.
With honor swelling their hearts, they will crusade
Against the dark emotions that have dimmed
The Inner Sphere for so long.
But with the glory comes responsibility;
Without a pure soul we cannot give sight
To their blind lives, but will only blind ourselves.
The rebels, heeding neither strength nor sense,
Cowardly ambushed noble DeChevalier.
Although he fought like a lion, he died
And with his death came the cloud, and reason fled
Like a winter sun's feeble evening light
Above hopeless Eden and wicked Babylon.
Five, Nicholas proclaimed, was the foundation
Upon which our true society was to be built.
Laborers to till the land, to do the tasks:
They shall have our undying gratitude,
For they are the muscle behind us all.
Merchants to buy and sell with fairness:
They shall have our commerce and respect,
For they are the bones upon which we are built.
Technicians to build and fix the machines:
They shall have our admiration,
For they are the fingers with which we grasp life.
Scientists to create and discover:
They shall have our awe and our attention,
For they are the mind of our society.
And above all, the Warriors who protect:
They shall have our cooperation and worship,
For they are the blood and soul of us all.
For the day will come and our kin will stand
On Terra's firm soil, ready to rebuild
The Star League
with their hearts and hands.
But who shall lead? Upon whose shoulders
Will the burden lie? The answer is the test;
The test is the journey. Whichever Clan
Carves its way through the barbarians
To reach that fabled cradle of us all
Shall be the vehicle of the League's rebirth. Upon
The Star League throne shall sit that Clan's
Wisest Khan. So should it be - so shall it be.
From Kerensky's Stars came the Eight Hundred
Beneath a banner of Truth and Righteous Light
To lift up those who had suffered and to smite down
With fearful vengeance those who had ruled
In the name of Vanity or Greed.
The thunder of their BattleMechs' feet, the lightning
From their weapons, and the blood spilled in their name
Created the Clan Spirit, the forge upon which
We have fashioned ourselves to be the weapon
Of the resurrected Star League,
Honed to a razor's edge by the Trials,
By The Remembrance, and by the Words
Of the Great Kerenskys, our sires, our saviors.
All praise the art of batchall and bidding
For it proves our love of peace and tradition.
Like a poisonous weed, the Not-Named fostered
Thoughts and actions against the Clans, calling them
"Independence" and "Freedom," not realizing
Their every act chained them to the corruptions
That brought down the noble Star League
And set the Inner Sphere aflame.
But the Clans survived by condemning
Them to a bitter annihilation.
Led by Clans Wolf and Widowmaker,
The Grand Council wiped clean the records,
Obliterating with the warm blood
Of its tragically doomed warriors
Every mention of the Not-Named Clan.
About the fallen hero they gathered,
None able to give voice to his shock.
Khan Jerome Winson knelt, tears streaming,
To cradle Nicholas Kerensky's head.
To wipe the blood from the cold brow,
To close the lightless eyes, Peace, great Hero.
Choked with sadness and anger
Khan Jerome Winson spoke. "Khan Cal Jorgensson,
I cry, not for myself, nor for others.
I weep for your Clan Widowmaker.
There is a price for such a crime
As you have committed. A price you
And your Clan will pay."
And never forget that help may come
From the most unlikely of quarters
And success rest upon the shoulders
Of those kept shadowed until the time of need.
Then the order came, "Furl the sails.
Ready for jump, mighty warriors.
We journey back, we journey home,
Carrying the flame of the Star League
Back to the hearth. We face the ignorant
Who believe themselves civilized and strong,
But they will soon discover otherwise.
We are the Clans, the
Star League incarnate.
None can stand against us and survive."
No natural calamities cost you.
There was no great disease, no famines;
No interstellar catastrophe to blame.
You have no excuse to explain
How this, our rightful palace, has been fouled
With the dust of countless innocent dead.
The truth is that you are the descendants
Of traitors who scurry about like rats
In the dark, fighting over petty kingdoms
At the foot of the empty throne.
Never recognizing that you have given up
The one true prize.
Tyra of the Rasalhague led,
Forth her fiery flying Drakons,
Gallant in bronze. A warrior woman whose hands
Were unskilled in the ways of hearth and home,
In skills of war she was hard and trained
To leave behind the airy winds and fight
Where the void is eternal and life fleeting.
Tyra and her warriors fought
Like crazed demons above Radstadt
When her fighter was crippled by ours,
And her life leaked away into the endless night,
She chose to die
And sent her fighter like a spear
Through the Dire Wolf, claiming as isorla
Our mighty ilKhans life. Sing of our loss, warriors!
Sing, but of Tyra also,
For though an enemy, her courage none can deny.
And so the Khans met in kurultai
To discuss the carving of Tukayyid.
As it was some feast dish cooked
And tender, begging for the server's knife.
Sons and daughters of the blood legacy,
Inspire me as I sing,
Of the deaths dealt out on Tukayyid
And of what our warriors faced and bravely fought;
Help me paint a portrait of an apocalypse.
Following the unit summaries are full unit rosters for the touman. Included are brief histories of each Galaxy and its Clusters, tables of organization and equipment listing each warrior, and descriptions of warriors within each unit whose rank or skills makes them noteworthy. The tables reflect the Wolf touman as of 15 April 3052, two weeks before the Tukayyid campaign.
During the bitter struggle on Tukayyid, Clan Wolf lost over 60 percent of its warriors to wounds or death. The warriors who fell on Tukayyid are noted with the abbreviations KIA (Killed in Action), and WIA (Wounded in Action). Wolf Clan's touman is now back to 80 percent strength. The majority of wounded soldiers have returned to their units, and replacements for those who died are expected soon from the Clan homeworlds. Units that have not yet returned to active duty or that have been permanently disbanded are noted by an asterisk (*), and additional explanation is provided when needed.
Wolf Clan Naval Reserve (Support)
(The Wolf Chariots)
Star Commodore Arthur Mehta
Alpha Galaxy (The Dire Wolves)
13th Wolf Guards Cluster (The Wolf Spiders)
328th Assault Cluster (The Lion-Hearted)
4th Wolf Guards Cluster (The Cyclops Cluster)
279th Battle Cluster (The Golden Horde)
Beta Galaxy (The Arctic Wolves)
341st Assault Cluster (The Silver Blizzards)
352nd Assault Cluster (The Silver Wolves)
3rd Battle Cluster (Silver Devils)
CO: IlKhan Ulric Kerensky
Star Colonel Khan Natasha Kerensky
Alpha Assault, Battle, and Striker Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Bravo Assault, Battle, and Striker Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Charlie Assault, Battle, and Striker Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Delta Command, Second, and Third Stars (5 Elemental Points each)
Star Colonel Athen Kederk
Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie Battle Novas (5 BattleMechs, 5 Elemental Points each)
Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie Assault Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Alpha and Bravo Fighter Stars (10 Fighters each)
Alpha and Bravo Rogue Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Alpha and Bravo Artillery Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Star Colonel Jera Carns - WIA
Command Star (5 BattleMechs)
Alpha and Bravo Artillery Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Alpha and Bravo First Novas (5 BattleMechs, 5 Elemental Points each)
Alpha and Bravo Second Novas (5 BattleMechs, 5 Elemental Points each)
Alpha and Bravo Assault Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Fighter Assault Star (10 Fighters)
Alpha and Bravo Rogue Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Fighter Rogue Star (10 Fighters)
Star Colonel Lara Ward - WIA
Alpha and Bravo Command Novas (5 BattleMechs, 5 Elemenal Points each)
Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie First Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie Second Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie Striker Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Alpha and Bravo Fighter Stars (10 Fighters each)
CO: Galaxy Commander Khan Garth Radick - KIA
Alpha and Bravo Command Stars (4 BattleMechs, 2 Fighters each)
Charlie Command Star (4 Elemental Points, 2 Fighters)
Command Fighter Star (10 Fighters)
Alpha and Bravo Artillery Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Star Colonel Ramon Sender - WIA
Alpha and Bravo Command Novas (5 BattleMechs, 5 Elemenal Points each)
Alpha and Bravo Second Novas (5 BattleMechs, 5 Elemental Points each)
Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie Assault Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie Battle Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Rogue Fighter Star (10 Fighters)
Star Colonel Erik Kerensky - KIA
Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie Command Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie Assault Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie Battle Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie Striker Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Alpha and Bravo Elemental Stars (5 Elemental Points each)
Rogue Fighter Star (10 Fiqhters)
Star Colonel Darren Fetladral
Alpha and Bravo Command Novas (5 BattleMechs, 5 Elemental Points each)
Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie Assault Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie Battle Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie Striker Stars (5 BattleMechs each)
Alpha and Bravo Fighter Stars (10 Fighters each)
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