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| image = [[File:Andurien Heavy Guard.jpg|160px]]
| Designation = Andurien Heavy Guard
| Formed = [[2651]]<ref name="ER:2750p40"/>
| Disbanded = [[2789]]<ref name="FSWp60"/>
| Previous Designation = 
| Nickname = The Rock of Gibraltar<ref name="ER:2750p40">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 40: "Andurien Heavy Guard"</ref>
| Affiliation = [[Capellan Confederation]]
| Parent Command = [[Capellan Hussars]]
| Sub-Command = 
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== History ==

=== Formation ===
As a part of the Capellan Hussars [[brigade]], the '''Andurien Heavy Guard''' symbolically represented the people of the [[Andurien Commonality]] within the Capellan Confederation. The Guard formed in part due to the [[Reunification War]], although they didn't participate in the campaign; when the [[Star League]] formed at the end of the [[Age of War]], each [[Great House]] donated troops to join in the formation of the [[Star League Defense Force]]. As the weakest and least technologically advanced of the Great Houses at the time, the Confederation jumped at the chance to replace form new regiments equipped with more advanced technology, and donated the larger part of their armed forces to the SLDF. Refusing to commit further units to the war efforts in the Periphery, the Confederation instead began mustering new units, a process that would continue until shortly after the Star League [[Council Edict of 2650]] was issued; the Andurien Heavy Guard was one of the last of these new units to muster.<ref name="ER:2750p40"/>

=== Star League Era ===
The legacy of the three [[Andurien Wars]] and the importance with which the planet - an important industrial world - could be raided by the [[Free Worlds League]] necessitated the dedication of a permanent garrison to defending the world, and the Andurien Heavy Guard formed a part of that garrison. The sedentary nature of this posting denied the Andurien Heavy Guard the opportunity to become the premier unit they might have been; instead, from [[2710]] onwards the Heavy Guard was largely stuck doing little more than holding parades and joining in with Confederation-wide wargames, and the communication between the various companies of the Heavy Guard was so poor that the regiment usually saw it placed towards the bottom of the game rankings.<ref name="ER:2750p40"/>

=== First Succession War ===
In May [[2789]] [[Captain-General of the Free Worlds League|Captain-General]] [[Kenyon Marik]] launched a large-scale invasion of the [[Andurien Commonality]] of the [[Capellan Confederation]], beginning with dropping the [[4th Atrean Dragoons|Fourth]] and [[Eleventh Atrean Dragoons]] and four regiments of mercenaries onto [[Andurien]], after a brief but bloody naval battle above the planet. Faced with six regiments supported by heavy aerospace forces and the punishing artillery of [[Baldwin's Cobras Heavy Brigade]], the defending forces - the Andurien Heavy Guard, and the [[Twelfth Andurien Hussars]], which was an untested unit at the time - crumbled; the campaign was brief and one-sided. A week after the landings, Andurien was under the control of the Free Worlds League again.<ref name="FSWp60">''First Succession War'', p. 60: "Losing Ground"</ref>

== Officers ==
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| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the Andurien Heavy Guard'''
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== Tactics ==
The Andurien Heavy Guard shied away from using heavier [[BattleMech]]s due to Andurien's high gravity, and preferred to engage an opponent at range.<ref name=fr2765cc7/>

== Composition History ==

=== 2765 ===
'''Andurien Heavy Guard''' (Regiment/Veteran/Reliable)<ref name=fr2765cc7>''Field Report 2765: CCAF'', p. 7</ref>
:Note: At this point in time the regiment was based on [[Andurien]].<ref name=fr2765cc7/>

=== 2786 ===
'''Andurien Heavy Guard''' (Regiment/Veteran/Reliable)<ref name="FSWp135"/>
:- At this point in time the Guard was a medium-weight regiment operating at full strength and was based on [[Andurien]] alongside the [[7th Andurien Hussars|Seventh]] and Twelfth Andurien Hussars. The unit was destroyed during the war.<ref name="FSWp135">''First Succession War'', p. 135: "Capellan Confederation Armed Forces (CCAF)"</ref>

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== Game Rules ==

=== 2750 ===
* As they were a new unit and not used to working together, any time the Andurien Heavy Guards deployed more than eight units on the field they receive a -1 initiative modifier.<ref>''Era Report: 2750'', p. 140: "BattleTech Rules - Capellan Confederation"</ref>

=== First Succession War ===
* Between [[2786]] and [[2807]], the composition of randomly-generated lances from the Andurien Heavy Guard are determined using a single roll on the Random Unit Assignment Tables per lance, with all of the lance 'Mechs being the resulting type. Between [[2808]] and [[2819]], the lance composition is determined using two rolls on the Random Unit Assignment Tables per lance, and from [[2820]] lance composition is determined using one roll per 'Mech per lance.<ref name="FSWp147">''First Succession War'', p. 147: "Force Compositions"</ref>
* When generating Andurien Heavy Guard forces using Random Unit Assignment Tables during the First Succession War, the Andurien Heavy Guard receives a +4 modifier to each roll on the appropriate table.<ref name="FSWp147B">''First Succession War'', p. 147: "RAT Die Roll Modifiers by Combat Command Table"</ref>
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== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* ''[[Era Report: 2750]]''
* ''[[Field Report 2765: CCAF]]''
* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)]]

[[Category:Capellan Confederation Commands|Andurien Heavy Guards]]