View source for 10th Army (ComStar)

{{infoBoxMilitaryCommand
| image          = [[image:comstar10tharmy.png|150px]]
| Designation    =  10th Army [[Level V|V]]-nu
| formed         = 
| Disbanded      = 
| Previous Designation = 
| Nickname       = The Red Legion
| Affiliation    = ComStar
| Parent Command = [[Com Guards]]
| Sub-Command    = 
}}
<onlyinclude>
Assigned to the [[Rigil Kentarus]] Theater, 10 to 11 on the [[Inner Sphere Clock]], the '''[[Com Guards|Com Guards Tenth Army]]''' took a battering against [[Clan Wolf]] during the [[Battle of Tukayyid (3052)|Battle of Tukayyid]] before serving alongside [[Clan Wolf-in-Exile]] in the [[Arc-Royal Defense Cordon]], calling themselves ''The Red Legion''.
</onlyinclude>
==History==
Selected along with the [[9th Army (ComStar)|Ninth Army]] to face the Wolves, the Tenth Army was primarily assigned to the defense of the target city of Skupo, suffering heavy losses in the bitter fighting as the [[Natasha Kerensky]]-led troops pushed the [[Com Guards|Com Guard]] forces out. <ref name=T>''Tukayyid'', p. 90, "Campaign: Clan Wolf"</ref>

Once the Wolves had landed, the Tenth army was stationed in the foothills surrounding the Porozistu Mountains. Elements of the Tenth attacked the Seventh Battle Cluster and Third Battle Cluster near Forest's End, a small village. The 283rd Division faced the Fourth Wolf Guards and prevented the Clan unit from surrounding the Tenth Army elements. Then the Sixty-seventh Division began harassing the Wolves' flanks. In response, the Wolf commanders simply smashed into the center of the Tenth's line, forcing the 283rd to withdraw. This led to the rest of the Tenth's units withdrawing under artillery cover as well.<ref>''Wolf Clan Sourcebook'', p. 50</ref> After resetting their defensive lines, the Tenth's recon units found that the Wolves were trying to bypass the Tenth to reach their goal. The Tenth redeployed to force the Wolves into combat. Though they held, the Tenth took heavy losses. The Tenth held a ridgetop that overlooked the two cities that were the Wolves goals. The Tenth Army was in danger of being surrounded until the Wolf Spiders tripped an assault by hidden Com Guard units. This forced the Wolves to halt, allowing the other units of the Tenth to withdraw. Though they held Brzo and Skupo for another day, eventually green troops of 138th Division broke under constant assaults from the Thirteenth Wolf Guards. This allowed the Wolf units to take Skupo, but as the Tenth withdrew they faced another major assault by the Wolves. Though many escaped capture, the Wolves took almost two hundred Com Guard warriors prisoner.<ref>''Wolf Clan Sourcebook'', p. 51</ref>

Save for the 208th's disastrous involvement in [[Operation BULLDOG]], since Tukayyid the Tenth found itself increasingly dragged into the internal problems of the newly formed [[Lyran Alliance]], with two of Army's divisions working with Lyran Loyalist forces and the others as adjuncts to the [[Arc-Royal Defense Cordon]]. The elevation of [[Victor Steiner-Davion]] to the position of [[Precentor Martial of ComStar|Precentor Martial]] worsened the Army's situation, <ref name=FMC>''Field Manual: ComStar'', p. 38–39, "10th Army V-nu: The Red Legion"</ref> and when the [[FedCom Civil War]] erupted, [[Precentor]] [[Gavin Dow]] took steps to ensure the loyalty of the Tenth to [[ComStar]].<ref name=FMU>''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 87,98 "10th Army V-nu (The Red Legion)"</ref>

For the most part this saved the Tenth Army from being caught up in the fighting, however Precentor [[Dag Kesselring]]'s staunchly Lyran 66th Division paid the price for their choice and were annihilated in [[Peter Steiner-Davion]]'s assault on [[Tharkad]]. <ref name=FMU/> 

After the beginning of the [[Jihad]] the Com Guard Armies were stretched too thin. To counteract this, the 7th–12th Armies were disbanded and used to reinforce the 1st–6th Armies. This gave each of the newly reinforced Armies a full six Divisions. The 10th Army was one of the formations affected.<ref>''Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers'', p. 210</ref>

==Officers==
{| class="wikitable"
|- 
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Rank
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Name
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Command
|-
| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the 10th Army (ComStar)'''
|-
| [[Precentor|Precentor V]]||[[Boris Myrvang]]||[[3050]]<ref name=20YU>''20 Year Update'', p. 71, "10th V-nu"</ref>
|-
| [[Precentor|Precentor XI]]||[[Cynthia Byrd]]||[[3052]] - [[3067]]<ref name=CS>''ComStar (sourcebook)'', p. 85, "10th Army V-nu"</ref><ref name=FMC/><ref name=FMU/>
|-
|}

===Other Officers===
* [[Precentor|Precentor IV]] [[Dianna Harshbarger]], aide to the commander in 3050.<ref name=20YU/>

==Tactics==
Unknown.

==Composition History==
===Tukayyid===
* 66th Division<ref name=wcs>''Wolf Clan Sourcebook'', pp. 50–51</ref>
* 166th Division<ref name=wcs/>
* 138th Division<ref name=wcs/>
* 278th Division<ref name=wcs/>
* 282nd Division<ref name=wcs/>
* 283rd Division<ref name=wcs/>
===3050===
*[[66th Division (ComStar)|66th Division]] (''Obedience Above All'' [[Level IV|IV]]-theta, on [[Rigil Kent]])<ref name=20YU/>
*[[282nd Division (ComStar)|282nd Division]] (''Clear Thoughts'' IV-rho, on Tharkad)<ref name=20YU/>
*[[283rd Division (ComStar)|283rd Division]] (''Waveforms'' IV-mu, on [[Summit]])<ref name=20YU/>
*[[138th Division (ComStar)|138th Division]] (''Bandits' Bane'' IV-xi, on [[Saravan]])<ref name=20YU/>
*[[166th Division (ComStar)|166th Division]] (''Disciples of Blake'' IV-tau, on [[Coventry]])<ref name=20YU/>
*[[208th Division (ComStar)|208th Division]] (''Promising Dialogue'' IV-eta, on [[Chahar]])<ref name=20YU/>

===3055 to 3062===
*[[283rd Division (ComStar)|283rd Division]] (''The Wolf Lords'' IV-pi, on Rigil Kent)<ref name=CS/><ref name=FMC/>
*[[66th Division (ComStar)|66th Division]] (''The Loner Division'' IV-upsilon, on Tharkad)<ref name=CS/><ref name=FMC/>
*[[198th Division (ComStar)|198th Division]] (''Dinju Mountain Men'' IV-epsilon, on [[Great X]])<ref name=CS/><ref name=FMC/>
*[[208th Division (ComStar)|208th Division]] (''The Racice River Raiders'' IV-eta, on [[Izar]] till [[3059]], afterwards [[Hamilton (LC)|Hamilton]])<ref name=CS/><ref name=FMC/>

===3067===
*[[283rd Division (ComStar)|283rd Division]] (''The Wolf Lords'' IV-pi, on Rigil Kent)<ref name=FMU/>
*[[198th Division (ComStar)|198th Division]] (''Dinju Mountain Men'' IV-epsilon, on [[Mkuranga]])<ref name=FMU/>
*[[208th Division (ComStar)|208th Division]] (''The Racice River Raiders'' IV-eta, on Hamilton)<ref name=FMU/>

==Notes==
* The Tenth's insignia a red shield bearing the ComStar logo.<ref name=FMC/>

==References==
<references />

==Bibliography==
* ''[[20 Year Update]]''
* ''[[ComStar (sourcebook)]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: ComStar]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Updates]]''
* ''[[Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers]]''
* ''[[Tukayyid (scenario pack)]]''
* ''[[Wolf Clan Sourcebook]]''

[[Category:ComStar Commands|Army, 10th]]