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Intelligence at this point is dealing with subversive people within the refugees. A lot of pissed off civilians at this point. I doubt anything really organized is remaining of FRR government. A puppet state at best with Comstar calling the shots. Causing friction because of this as well. Its basically a 7 planet DMZ at this point.


In regards to their military. I figure Tukayyid is strictly policed by Comstar and the other 6 have a Battalion with support personal each. I see maybe something odd like an agreement with OWA for some Wings of Aerospace for Comstar assistance and trade. Just to get them somehow involved in politics in the IS.

With only 7 worlds, the Free Rasalhague Republic has no strategic depth.
With 4 BattleMech regiments (discounting additional forces and militia), it lacks the might to resist any invasion by a foreign power, even more the Clans.

It only has two options : buy time on space then land to allow the cavalry to come or become such a potential nuisance that no one will try to come along.
Both are a bit of the same tactics with the use of heavily fortified positions but the second one could be more trying to impress or saying and being ready to use weapons of mass destruction and turning every single man and woman in a militia fighter (the Clans are not prepared to deal with that).

For space, Aerospace Fighters, mines and pocket WarShips are the way to go. On ground, artillery, Aerospace Fighters, hidden units (denying the fight for the first option), mines, guerrilla, lines after lines of defence positions forcing the Clans to lose one Warrior after another.

While looking for inspiration, I found this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_defense or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flypaper_theory_(strategy)

Meanwhile, Pertra opertatives could stage raids on other planets to disturb the arrival of supplies or to try to raise people against their new owners.

Yes Jaegers were vehicle battalions

I looked at it and they say that during Clan Invasion, the KungsArmé went from 206 Regiments to 26.

Then I did the maths and split among 6 units of each sort, the KungsArmé has:
- 4 Regiments of BattleMechs,
- 1 Regiment and 1 Company of Aerospace Fighters,
- 4 Regiments and 1 Company of Armour,
- 6 Regiments and 1 Battalion of Infantry.

All this split on 7 worlds (perhaps only 6 since ComStar might be garrisoning Tukkayid).

Which means we are missing 11 Regiments. Are they militia units, not worth of being mentioned? Were the report and the T0&E written at different times?

I think the Republic would have to rely on others to a large degree Ice.

Your research checks out from the Field Manuals with only the Black Outlaws being an oversight in the mercenary department.

3rd Drakons (2 BattleMech battalions – Veteran/Fanatical)
Holy Valkyries (Aerospace company – Regular/Fanatical)
1st Ueda Cavaliers (Armor battalion – Regular/Reliable)
3rd Ueda Infantry (Infantry regiment – Regular/Reliable)

2nd Freemen (BattleMech regiment – Veteran/Fanatical)
Headhunters (Aerospace wing – Veteran/Fanatical)
2nd Dehgolan Light Armor (Armor regiment – Regular/Reliable)
7th Dehgolan Militia (Infantry regiment – Regular/Reliable)

3rd Hussars (2 BattleMech battalions – Veteran/Fanatical)
3rd Hussars Aerospace (Aerospace wing – Veteran/Reliable)
1st Gumium Armored Militia (2 Armor battalions – Green/Reliable)
3rd Grumium Mechanized Infantry (Infantry Regiment – Veteran/Fanatical)

2nd Kavalleri (BattleMech battalion – Veteran/Fanatical)
Delta Darts (Aerospace company – Regular/Fanatical)
2nd Karbala Heavy Armor (Armor regiment – Regular/Reliable)
2nd Kavalleri Infantry (2 Infantry regiments – Veteran/Fanatical)

4th Kavalleri (BattleMech regiment – Regular/ Questionable)
4th Kavalleri Aerospace (Aerospace Company – Regular/Questionable)
1st Al Hillah Lancers (Armor regiment – Green/Reliable)
3rd Al Hillah Assault Infantry (Infantry regiment – Green/Reliable)

1st Tyr (BattleMech battalion – Elite/Fanatical)
1st Orestes Lancers (Aerospace company – Veteran/Fanatical)
4th Orestes Armor (Armor company – Regular/Reliable)
2nd Orestes Motorized Infantry (Infantry battalion – Veteran/Reliable)

Black Outlaws (BattleMech battalion)

Totals
4 BattlMech regiments and 1 battalion
3 Aerospace wings and 1 company
5 Armor regiments and 1 company
6 Infantry regiments and 1 battalion

Again with the thread necro, but I think what FRR did in canon makes just as much sense in this situation.  The military scenario is dire and effectively unwinnable -- pocket warships are probably the best of a lot of bad options.  One political solution is thus to unify with the Bears and weaken the Clan alliance by turning one of the major Clans into an Inner Sphere nation.  The other three options are re-unification with the Combine (probably not feasible), the FedCom (not sure that the FedCom would want the aggravation), or ComStar, which is the de facto situation.

If FRR is effectively part of ComStar (as a protectorate or satellite), then they also have all the resources of Terra to draw from, including the massive Titan Shipyards, the Mars shipyards, and potentially even rebuilt New Earth shipyards -- isn't one of Takiro's canon ComStar characters the Precentor of New Earth?  Not to mention the Kungsarme would have the ComGuard backing them up on-world.  So if ComStar is supplying the regiments, and the aerospace flights, as well as the pocket warships -- and ComStar retains Terra throughout the entire Truce period (meaning, no Wobbly takeover or Case White), then this is actually doable.

You can even use some Jihad Blake designs, like the Tiamat.  With a 15-year truce, no need to develop a drone CASPAR system, and with a slightly accelerated timeline, you could have Tiamats with Naval C3 ready to beat down the antiquated (and paper-thin armor) of a Clan warship fleet.  Surprise, Clanner! 

Even if it's "only" a whole mess of Dragaus, those assault Dropships have insane thrust and really nasty firepower.  I'd pit a few squads of Naval-C3 Dragaus against stars of Clan Omnifighters every day of the week, and twice on Sundays.  And used in packs, they'd blow through most Clan warships as well.  Soyuz and Lola classes would be hurting, badly.

Sarna says that Tor Miraborg returned to the FRR in 3057 after the Refusal War, along with the Wolf-in-Exiles.  Until then he'd have been in the Wolf Occupation Zone.

Why not just accelerate the regency of Christian Maansdottir?  If the Wolfs Dragoons rescue wasn't during the initial Invasion, just retcon as such, and have him elected Prince in the 3054 election and serve just one term as a caretaker-type candidate.  If you accelerate the poisoning attempt, and introduce Motstaand as an anti-Military Alliance group, not just an anti-Ghost Bear group, that would let you introduce one of the younger generation in the 3064 election, just before the revival of the Clan Invasion.

My suggestion is Anika Janssen, who I bring up in the other thread.  She's just 27 in 3053, but will be 38 (and probably quite accomplished) by the time the next election rolls around.  And in canon she eventually becomes a ComStar Precentor, so would probably be pretty pro-Alliance.