Battle of Tikonov

 

            On February 16, 3025 7 Davion Regiments landed on the Capellan Confederation Planet of Tikonov. The davion force of 55 jumpships jumped in at a pirate point 4 days away from the Tikonov. Their fighters where set up so that they protect their 200 some Dropships from enemy fighters. The first engagement was against The Night riders (deep space defense forces) who attacked the incoming davion dropships and fighters. But the Davion fighters destroyed most of the Night Riders and defending Capellan fighters with only moderate losses and minor damage to dropships.

 

            Davion regiments landed on all of the 4 continents except Krasnodar where the MacGregor’s Armored Scouts battalion was located. Alpha and Beta regiments of the 12th Vegan Rangers and 8th Deneb Light Cavalry RCT landed on Kazan where they faced the Arina grenadiers, 1st Battalion of the 4th Tau Ceti rangers, and the 1st Battalion of Hamilton’s Highlanders. The 2nd Crucis Lancers RCT and Redfield’s renegades landed on Pskov and faced the 2nd Chesterton Voltigeurs and 1st and 2nd battalions of the 2nd Arina Fusiliers. On Ufa the 8th Crucis Lancers RCT and the Gamma Regiment from the 12th Vegan Rangers faced the 1st and 3rd Chesterton Voltigeurs.

 

            The first combat was on Ufa where the 8th Crucis Lancers RCT attacked the 1st Chesterton Voltigeurs at the city of New Moscow. The battles lasted for 12 hours with the 8th cruces lancers RCT winning mainly because of their extra units in a RCT. The other combat that occurred when this did was the Gamma Regiment smashing the 3rd Chesterton Voltigeurs with a surprising rear attack with its 1st battalion. Also whiles these two battles where rapping up the battles on both Krasnodar and Kazan had already started.

 

            The most savage fighting so far as been between the Arina Grenadiers and the 12th Vegan rangers Alpha Regiment supported by the 3rd battalion of the 8th Deneb Light Cavalry. These units’ battled for all of the first day in and around the city of Gizhiga. The rest of the 8th Crucis lancers RCT attacked the 4th Tau Ceti rangers on the approaches to the Earthwerks Incorporated Factories. The remaining two battalion of the lancers and their RCT smashed the Rangers in the open area that they where stationed and moved onto the factories. 12th Vegan’s Beta regiment was moving into position near the Earthwerks main factories where the Hamilton’s Highlanders are stationed.

 

            The 2nd Crucis Lancers RCT landed on both sides of the land bridge that connects Pskov to Kazan to cut off the two battalions from the 2nd Arina Fusiliers. This act of the lancers prevented any of the capellan units to retreat unless they tried to break out. After the Lancers landed and secured their LZ they sent out their scouts and fighters to probe for the location of any of the Capellan units that might be outside of the city of Karaganda. They encountered only a few units which where destroyed and then the fighters of the 2nd lancers attacked the defensive works of the city and also the defenders. Then the lancers attacked the city head on and where repulsed on their first try but managed to capture 1/3 of the city by nightfall.

 

            Also on Pskov the Davion mercenary unit Redfield’s renegades where charged with the duty of taking Ulan where the 2nd Chesterton Voltigeurs are located along with the Duke in exile of the Chesterton worlds. The battle started with the Chesterton regiment attacking the incoming Davion mercenary regiment. This action caused a good bit of damage to the renegades and forced them to withdraw and fight several skirmishes and fighting withdraws for the next 4 days before the 2nd Chesterton Voltigeurs stopped for some unknown reason. It was not till the next day that a renegade boomerang spotter plane took pictures of a uncovered region in the forests north of Ulan where they saw what looked like a old building of some sort that had just been uncovered. With news of what could be a star league base of some kind left behind on Tikonov, the Renegades attacks the 2nd Chesterton and forced them back to the city before night fall on February 21st.

 

            During these 5 days the davion forces forced the Capellan unit to retreat of surrender. Also they’re where several important and bloody battles that took place. The first of the bloody battles was 2nd Crucis lancers RCT final attack on the 2nd Arina Fusiliers. This battle was bloody because the last few hours were city combat, which both sides took heavy casualties. The fighting in Karaganda was over in two more days with the lancers victorious but damaged.

 

            The battle between the Alpha regiment of the 12th Vegan rangers and the Arina Grenadiers was still going on at this time. The rangers and the lancer Battalion withdrew a few miles away from the city to recover from almost 6 days of constant fighting. While they did this, the Grenadiers boarded their Dropships and took off. Also the remnants of the 2nd Chesterton Voltiguers and Macgregor Armored Scouts left the planet in their Dropships. The davion fighters persuaded them for as long as they could because the remaining capellan fighter fault hard to buy time for their fellow units to leave, which they did do with the loss of the last of the capellan fighters.

 

            The battle for the Earthwerks factories was fault between the beta regiment and 8th Deneb Light Cavalry RCT against the Elite Hamilton’s highlanders. The high and thick walls of the city keep the Davion forces from just attacking the city itself. So they decided that they would try something that was risky but it might just work. They decided to drop the 1st and 2nd battalions from the 8th Lancers into the city wall while the davion fighters attacked the defensive turrets and emplacements. The combat drop into the city was almost a complete success except for some losses but what units did land managed to take the Earthwerks factories intact and blow a hole in the walls that allowed more davion troops to get into the city. The highlanders fought very well during the final hours, the 20 mechs left and what support elements survived held off several attacks by twice and even three times their number. But they too soon died or where captured when superior davion numbers and the exertion of the highlanders got to them.

 

            Davion forces captured the mech factory but in doing so it was damaged. The damage done was around 35% to the factory.

 

 

Battle of Tikonov:

 

Capellan Confederation Losses

Ø      2nd Arina Fusiliers (1st and 2nd battalions)- 85% losses, rest surrendered

Ø      Arina Grenadiers- 40% losses, rest got off the planet

Ø      1st Chesterton Voltiguers- 75% losses, rest surrendered

Ø      2nd Chesterton Voltiguers- 28% losses, rest got off the planet

Ø      3rd Chesterton Voltiguers- 79% losses, rest surrendered

Ø      Hamilton’s Highlanders (1st Battalion)- 95% losses, rest surrendered

Ø      Macgregor’s Armored Scouts (1st Battalion)- retreated off the planet

 

Federated Suns

Ø      8th Deneb Light Cavalry RCT- moderate damage (33% of RCT)

Ø      2nd Crucis lancers RCT- moderate Damage (26% of RCT)

Ø      8th Crucis lancers RCT- moderate damage (23% of RCT)

Ø      Redfield’s Renegades- more then moderate damage (40% of regiment)

Ø      Alpha Regiment (12th VR)- moderate damage (30% of Regiment)

Ø      Beta regiment (12th VR)- moderate damage (24% of Regiment)

Ø      Gamma Regiment (12th VR)- minor damage (18% of regiment)