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Field Manual: 3067 Taurian Defense Force Commander: Protector Grover Shraplen Aide: Senior Marshal Boris Tharn BattleMech Strength: Approximately 9 Regiments Taurian Guard: Commander: Marshal Robere Caul Aide: Comptroller Alice Hastings Taurian Guard: Hell's Heart Regiment - 'Mech Regiment/Veteran/Reliable - Hyades Cluster/New Vallis - 98% - 0/15/2(A) (CO: Colonel Lee "T-Bolt" Smith)    First Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Elite/Reliable       (CO: Brigadier James Sterling)    Second Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Veteran/Reliable       (CO: Brigadier Janilee Towarr)    Third Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Veteran/Reliable       (CO: Brigadier Malcom Brightwater    Battalion Information from Periphery FM and may be incorrect    4th Taurian Air Division (Calderon's Shield) - Aerospace Wing/Elite/Reliable - New Vallis - 98% - 0/24/0       (CO: Senior Air Master Byron Tike)    3rd Taurian Armor Guard - Armor Battalion/Regular/Reliable - Hyades Cluster - 90% - 0/5/0       (CO: Subaltern Paul Sinclair)    121st Cluster Infantry - Reinforced Regiment (six battalions)/Regular/Reliable - Taurus - 85%       (CO: Colonel Steve Milner) Concordat Commandos: By the Horns - 'Mech Regiment/Elite/Reliable - Hyades Cluster - 95% - 0/28/10(A) (CO: Colonel Monty Scott)    First Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Veteran/Reliable       (CO: used to be Brigadier Montgomery Scott)    Second Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Veteran/Reliable       (CO: Brigadier William Renshaw)    Third Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Veteran/Reliable       (CO: Brigadier Dalton Summers)    Battalion Information from Periphery FM and may be incorrect    15th Armored Cavalry - Armor Battalion/Veteran/Fanatical - Hyades Cluster - 100% - 0/12/0       (CO: Subaltern Laura Ganes)    3rd Battlesuit Recon - 2 BattleArmor Squads/Veteran/Reliable - Hyades Cluster - 110%       (CO: Force Sergeant Cameron Vale) I Corps Commander: Marshal Kai Shoguwa Aide: Comptroller Adam Meisner Concordat Jaegers: Strength Through Adversity - 'Mech Regiment/Veteran/Questionable - Argos/New Vandenburg/Regis Roost - 100% - 1/56/10(B) (CO: Colonel Carol Trennouth)    First Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Veteran/Reliable       (CO: Brigadier Kevin Stills)    Second Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Veteran/Reliable       (CO: Brigadier James Howard)    Taurian Velites - 'Mech Battalion/Elite/Reliable       (CO: Brigadier Charise Heiser)    Battalion Information from Periphery FM and may be incorrect    2nd Velites Air Division - Aerospace Wing/Regular/Questionable - 98% - 0/30/2       (CO: Senior Air Master Phan Mah Lut) Red Chasseurs: Bright Flame Regiment - Veteran/Questionable - Laconis/Landmark/Bromhead - 93% - 0/8/0(B) (CO: Colonel Clarence "Chip" Cheplak)    First Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Veteran/Questionable       (CO: Brigadier Andre Pharoh)    Second Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Regular/Questionable       (CO: Brigadier Maria Steibeck)    Third Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Veteran/Questionable       (CO: Brigadier Isaak Shtern)    Battalion Information from Periphery FM and may be incorrect    21st Corps Air Division - Aerospace Wing/Regular/Questionable - Landmark - 100% - 0/2/0       (CO: Air Master Samantha Fields)    27th Armored Reconnaissance - 2 Armor Companies/Green/Questionable - Bromhead - 84% - 0/5/0       (CO: Subaltern Mick Andrew)    35th Cluster Support Force (Red Gate Infantry) - Mixed Company*/Regular/Questionable - Landmark - 100%       (CO: Cornet Adam Mustaffalous)    * Battlesuit squad, artillery platoon, two VTOL maniples, minelayer squad, demolitions team, and some other odds and ends. III Corps Commander: Senior Marshal Boris Tharn Aide: Colonel Victor Sharpe Pleiades Hussars: The Challenge of Brinksmanship - 'Mech Regiment/Veteran/Fanatical - Pleiades Cluster - 77% - 2/21/18(A) (CO: Comptroller Maxwell Albritten)    First Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Veteran/Fanatical       (CO: Brigadier Quince Baker)    Second Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Green/Fanatical       (CO: Brigadier Hu Dem Han)    Battalion Information from Periphery FM and may be incorrect    Pleiades Seventh Air Division - Air Division/Veteran/Fanatical - Pleiades Cluster - 72% - 0/33/0       (CO: Air Master Dianne Gaul)    Four-Seventeen, Jansen's Armored Brigade - Armor Battalion/Regular/Questionable - Pleiades Cluster - 66% - 0/25/0       (CO: Subaltern Rom Lann)    12th Pleiades Infantry - Two Infantry Battalions*/Regular/Fanatical - Pleiades Cluster - 55%       (CO: Brigadier Leo McCoy**)    * Has a large medical corps staff and jump capable soldiers.    ** FM Updates has the commander as being a Colonel Steve Milner, but he is the commander of the 121st Infantry in Taurian Guard. I'm assuming this is a typo and am leaving Leo McCoy in charge. 1st Taurian Lancers: Battlefield Brethren - 'Mech Regiment/Green/Fanatical - Aldebaran/Ningpo - 85% - 0/21/8(A) (CO: Colonel Austin Campbell)    First Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Green/Fanatical       (CO: Brigadier Rachel James)    Second Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Green/Fanatical       (CO: Brigadier (Sao-shao) Michael Jun Lee)    Third Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Regular/Fanatical       (CO: used to be Brigadier Austin Campbell)    Battalion Information from Periphery FM and may be incorrect    1st Taurian Armored Lancers (Jason's Shield) - Armor Regiment/Regular/Fanatical - Aldebaran/Ningpo - 67% - 0/44/0       (CO: Colonel Xavier "X" St. Cloud)    75th Light Guard - 2 Infantry Battalions*/Green/Reliable - 79%       (CO: Brigadier Yesler Mohadib**)    * Has Artillery, VTOL, conventional aircraft, and a company of anti-'Mech jump troops. Second Battalion is a guard-duty unit only.    ** FM Updates has the 75th commanded by Force Commander Cameron Vale, the commander of the 3rd Battlesuit Recon in the Concordat Commandos. As he can't be in both places at the same time, I'm leaving Yesler in charge. 1st MacLeod's Regiment - 'Mech Regiment/Green/Fanatical - Hyades Cluster/MacLeod's Land - 75% - 0/18/2(A) (CO: Colonel Monty Scott*)    71st Taurian Armored Lancers - Armor Battalion/Green/Fanatical - MacLeod's Land - 85% - 0/21/0       (CO: Subalertn Janus Links)    5th Battlesuit Recon - Battlesuit Squad/Green/Fanatical - Hyades Cluster - 100%       (CO: Force Sergeant Connor Sinclair)    * Once again with the same guy in two places. Monty Scott is also the commander of the Concordat Commandos, but since this regiment is new, I have no information on who the actual commander is. Bonnockburn's Bandits - Steady On - 2 'Mech Battalions/Veteran/Reliable - MacLeod's Land - 75% - 0/45/0(C) (CO: Colonel David Bonnockburn) (XO: Lt. Col. Katherine Morgan    Headquarters Company - 'Mech Company/Veteran/Reliable - MacLeod's Land       (CO: Colonel David Bonnockburn)    Morgan's Lancers - 'Mech Battalion/Veteran/Reliable - MacLeod's Land       (CO: Lt. Col. Katherine Morgan)    Carter's Commandos - 'Mech Battalion/Veteran/Reliable - MacLeod's Land       (CO: Major Isaac Carter)    Bonnockburn Aerospace - AeroSpace Squadron/Veteran/Reliable - MacLeod's Land       (CO: CWO Harriet Swiller)    The Bandit's Boys - 2 Motorized Anti-'Mech Infantry Companies/Veteran/Reliable - MacLeod's Land       (CO: Major Benedict Washington III) IV Corps Commander: Marshal Talon Black Aide: Colonel Simon Seize 2nd Taurian Lancers: Starbright Regiment - 'Mech Regiment/Regular/Reliable - Amber Grove/Mithron - 96% - 0/22/0(B) (CO: Colonel William "Stable Manager" Mouat) (XO: Colonel Kammie Andrews)    First Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Regular/Reliable       (CO: Brigadier Jasmine Frachs)    Second Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Regular/Reliable       (CO: Brigadier Theo "Socrates" Kipplinger)    Third Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Regular/Reliable       (CO: Brigadier Tom Payne)    Battalion Information from Periphery FM and may be incorrect    33rd Air Defense - Aerospace Squadron/Green/Reliable - Mithron - 98% - 0/10/0       (CO: Air Master Emory Johnstone)    2nd Taurian Armored Lancers - Armor Regiment/Green/Fanatical - Amber Grove/Mithron - 100% - 0/5/0       (CO: Colonel Theodore Wilson) Longwood's Bluecoats - Political Profit* - Jansen's Hold - 90% - 0/50/0(C)    Command Company - 'Mech Company/Veteran/Questionable       (CO: Colonel Moses Longwood)    Mac's Hell-Raisers - 'Mech Battalion/Veteran/Questionable       (CO: Major Belinda MacKelvy)    2nd Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Veteran/Questionable       (CO: Major Jorge Ustanicha)    The Bluecoat Pikeman - Infantry Regiment/Regular/Questionable       (CO: Lt. Colonel Hendrik Klaastra)    * According to FM Updates, they are now in IV Corps. The Thumpers Battalion* - 'Mech Battalion/Green/Reliable - Mithron - 100% - 0/60/0(d) (CO: Major Buck Tripp) Prey's Divisionals* - 'Mech Battalion/Regular/Reliable - New Vallis - 90% - 0/45/0(D) (CO: Major J. "Bad Karma" Benderoth) * These mercenary units are guarding the same border that IV Corps is, so I am placing them here. V Corps Commander: Marshal Amanda Revin Aide: Brigadier Jason Batavia 3rd Taurian Lancers: Growing Pains - 'Mech Regiment/Green/Reliable - Hyalite/Perdition/Celentaro - 68% - 0/2/0(B) (CO: Colonel Kalvin Hobbes)    First Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Regular/Reliable       (CO: Brigadier Miho Katsuba)    Second Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Green/Reliable       (CO: used to be Brigadier Kalvin Hobbes)    Third Battalion - 2 'Mech Companies/Green/Questionable       (CO: Brigadier Aaron Wells)    Battalion Information from Periphery FM and may be incorrect    3rd Taurian Armored Lancers - 2 Armor Companies/Green/Questionable - Perdition - 91% - 0/0/0       (CO: Subaltern Jessiah Hawkins)    3rd Taurian Foot Lancers - Infantry Regiment*/Green/Reliable - Hyalite/Perdition/Celentaro - 77%       (CO: Colonel Roman Waters)    * Each battalion has artillery, VTOLs, and a jump company. Summer's Storm* - ?/?/? - anti-spinward border - ? - ? (CO: ?)    * This mercenary unit is noted in the TC V Corps writeup, but I have never seen any information about them. Gordon's Armored Cavalry* - 'Mech Regiment/Veteran/Questionable - Amber Grove/Calderon Protectorate Border** - 70% - 0/35/0(D) (CO: Colonel Nicholas Gordon)    Mitchell's Lancers - 'Mech Battalion/Veteran/Reliable       (CO: Brigadier Alberta Mitchell)    Arrow's Chasseurs - 'Mech Battalion/Elite/Reliable       (CO: Brigadier Nathan Arrow)    Simon's Banshee's - 'Mech Battalion/Elite/Fanatical       (CO: Brigadier Carl Simon)    * Location in V Corps is from FM Updates, and all battalion info is from the Periphery Sourcebook. They probably do not trust Shraplen, hence their new questionable loyalty rating. I do not know why their experience dropped.    ** The Mercenary listing has them on Amber Grove, but the TC information says they are harrassing the Calderon Protectorate now Calderon Protectorate Commander: Marshal (Baron) Cham Kithrong Aide: Comptroller Rand Allison BattleMech Strength: Approximately 2 Regiments 1st Taurian Pride: The New Colony Lancers - 'Mech Regiment/Veteran/Questionable - Errod's Escape/Marknick/Gaul - 88% - 0/4/0(B) (CO: Colonel Peter LaCasse)    First Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Green/Questionable       (CO: Brigadier Hans Gunter)    Second Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Green/Questionable       (CO: Brigadier Darrin Thomason)    Third Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Regular/Questionable       (CO: Brigadier Liza Moody)    Battalion Information from Periphery FM and may be incorrect    1st Pride Defense Division - Aerospace Wing/Regular/Questionable - Erod's Escape - 72% - 0/6/0       (CO: Senior Air Master Kelly Swift)    New Colony Guard - Infantry Battalion/Green/Questionable - Marknick - 95%       (CO: Subaltern Derrik Masters) 2nd Taurian Pride: Walking Softly - 'Mech Regiment/Green/Questionable - Dilk/Oscar/Lastpost - 93% - 0/8/0(B) (CO: Colonel David Summerhelm)    First Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Green/Questionable       (CO: Brigadier Francis Blake)    Second Battalion - 'Mech Battalion/Green/Questionable       (CO: Brigadier Marra Westin)    Battalion Information from Periphery FM and may be incorrect    2nd Pride Defense Division - Aerospace Wing/Veteran/Questionable - Dilk/Oscar - 94% - 0/11/0       (CO: Air Master Samual Eretz)    7th Gaul Armored Regiment - Armor Battalion/Regular/Questionable - Dilk/Oscar - 86% - 0/9/0       (CO: Brigadier Hannah Jalter)    Calderon's Commandos - Infantry Battalion*/Regular/Questionable - Dilk/Oscar/Lastpost - 99%       (CO: Force Sergeant Terrence Red-Bear)    * Versed in sabotage and sniping. One BattleArmor squad. The Clean Kill - Mistakes Were Made - Mixed Battalion/Regular/Reliable - Altheas's Choice - 100% - 0/30/0(F) (CO: Major Phormes Bullard)    Headquarters Company* - Mixed Company/Regular/Reliable       (CO: Major Phormes Bullard)    Assassin Company - Medium 'Mech Company/Regular/Reliable       (CO: Captain Charles Stanworth)    Bludgeon Company** - Mixed Company/Regular/Reliable       (CO: Captain Helen Narbon)    Crush Company*** - Mixed Company/Regular/Reliable       (CO: Captain Kailynn O'Reilly)    * Two Assault Lances and one towed Sniper artillery Lance    ** Two Assault Lances and one Ontos Lance    *** Two 'Mech Lances, one of Arrow IV Catapults, and a lance of Po Heavy tanks Unnassigned Units These units are specifically mentioned in the Periphery Field Manual but not assigned to a 'Mech unit. 18th Corps Air Division - Aerospace Division/?/? - ? 21st Corps Air Division - 2 Aerospace Wings/?/? - ? It is inferred that these exist based on numbers and recent buildups but no other proof has been found. 1st Battlesuit Recon - 1 or 2 Battlesuit squads/?/? - ? 2nd Battlesuit Recon - 1 or 2 Battlesuit squads/?/? - ? 4th Battlesuit Recon - 1 or 2 Battlesuit squads/?/? - ?