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| Designation = 801st Heavy Armored Regiment
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| Affiliation = [[Terran Hegemony]]
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==Overview==
The '''801st Heavy Armored Regiment''' was a unit within the [[Hegemony Armed Forces]] and one of the first military units in the [[Inner Sphere]] to be equipped with the [[BattleMech]].

==History==
The [[Terran Hegemony]] was responsible for the development of the first [[BattleMech]], with the [[Mackie|MSK-5S ''Mackie'']] entering service in [[2439]].<ref name="ED:AOWp5">''Era Digest: Age of War'', p. 5, "The New Knights"</ref> The pilot of the first ''Mackie'' to undergo successful testing was [[Colonel]] [[Charles Kincaid (25th c.)|Charles Kincaid]], a scion of the wealthy and influential Kincaid family, and Kincaid would go on to command a [['Mech]] [[company]] within the 801st.<ref name="TRO3075p186">''Technical Readout: 3075'', p. 186, "MSK-9H Mackie: Notable MechWarriors"</ref><ref name=XTROPVp8>''Experimental Technical Readout: Primitives, Volume 1'', p. 8 "MSK-5S Mackie"</ref>

The first battle in the history of the Inner Sphere to involve BattleMechs also involved the 801st; a [[lance]] of Mackies led by [[Lieutenant Colonel]] [[Amanda Cunningham]]<ref name=XTROPVp8/> from the 801st faced a company of armored vehicles from the [[Draconis Combine]] on the planet [[Styx]], which the Kuritans were attempting to raid.<ref name="ED:AOWp5"/> The 'Mechs from the 801st easily handled the Combine tanks and their infantry support outside the city of Barbados; faced with the new Hegemony weapons on a battlefield marred by wet weather conditions and mud, only a single Combine tank and a few infantry were left alive from the raiding party at the end of the battle. This overwhelming victory proved to most that BattleMech technology would be decisive in future battles.<ref>''Dark Age: Republic Worlds (3130)'', p. 44: "Styk"</ref>

==Officers==
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| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the 801st Heavy Armored Regiment'''
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==Tactics==
Unknown.

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Dark Age: Republic Worlds (3130)]]''
* ''[[Era Digest: Age of War]]
* ''[[Experimental Technical Readout: Primitives, Volume 1]]''
* ''[[Technical Readout: 3075]]''

[[Category: Terran Hegemony Commands|Heavy Armored Regiment, 801st]]

801st Heavy Armored Regiment - Revision history

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