Verdun IV

Battle of Verdun IV

Combatants

Galtactic Empire,Verdun Loyalists

New Republic,Wookies,Verdun Sucsecionests.

Imperial Commander: Admiral Krane

New Republic: Admiral Zarkan

Strength

Imperial (Start)mperial Star destoryers,2 Victory Star Destoryers,3 Accumalators,2 Dreadnaughts,788 Tie Fighters of various types. 75,000 Imperial Storm troopers,450,000 Loyalists. 312 AT-ST,125 AT-AT,67 AT-XT,201 TX 130 Tanks,101 Fixed Arty Guns,540 verdun Battle Tanks....(imperials reinforcements later) 1 Imperial star destroyer,5,000 Stormtroopers,10 AT-AT,30 AT-ST,10 tx 130 Tanks.

New Repubulic (start):7 Moncal Crusiers,5 Neb B,4 Correlian corvets, 350 Fighters, 42,000 Rebel Marines,800,000 Sucseionests,5,000 Clone armoured Assult troops,8,000 strong wookie task force,1002 Verdun Battle Tanks. 34 At-RT,114 Turbo Tanks, 24 Arty guns........New Republic (reinforcements later) 10,000 Rebel Marines,25,000 Rebel Infantry. 2000 Wookies.,2 Mon cal ships,2 Neb b,102 Trubo Tanks.

Result: Imperial Loss at Verdun IV, Main capital of Talon Prime lost,imperial Retreat from system. new republic cripeld by Imperial last stand. Cannot muster strength to chase the imperials, Krane takes remnants and flees to Unknowng regions to regroup. new republic retake Verdun but most of the planets key cities are destroyed beyond salvage.

Casuties

Imperial-57,000 Stormtroopers-400,000 Loyalists-278 AT-ST,120 AT-AT,60 AT-XT-all TX 130 tanks,89 Arty guns-530 Verdun Battle Tanks. 2 star destoryers lost,2 victorys,2 Accumilators,2 Dreadnaughts-all but 98 Tie fighters.

New Republic: 5 Mon cal Crursiers,3 Neb B,4 Corvets,302 Fighters-32,000 Rebel marines-620,000 Rebel Secsesionests,all 5000 Clone Troops,7670 Wookies,882 Verdun Tanks-all AT-RT: 102 Turbo Tanks.

The battle of Verdun IV took Place some years after Papatines fall and thrawns recent failure. The Imperial Planet of Verdun IV was a planet that was the new republics next target to remove from imperial tyranny. fortunautly and unfortunatly the population was split on imperial rule. the majority however resented the empire. Mostly the reason so many stayed loyal to the empire was not out of fanaticsm but out of fear should the imperials win,even should the planet fall many belived the empire would send a task force to destroy it. The planet housed the I'mperial fleet: Triton. it had a near full 75,000 Stormtroopers and nearly all ships although lacking highly in crew and replacements, were at combat operational. The fleets commander Admrial Krane knew that the Republic would come for His home. He set up shileds so the capital was shield from Space Bombardment. he organised nearly all his men in the massive Capital city that housed 50 million People. all other parts of the planet were considerd nul invoid and such very few men were stationed in the other cities if any. he set up his men into dozens of battle groups renamed divions. The Divsions were primarly organised hense forth

3750 Stormtroopers,22,500 Verdun Loyalists constrips.

tanks and vechiles would change depending on the threat units faced.

20 such combat divions were organised and each one defended a part in the city. 2 were held in reserve and 1 as the capitals parlement building defense force, in such the first defense would be 17 Divisons vs all the new rpublics strength. the Verdun constrips were issued imperial army uniforms and the guns ranged from E-11 to any blaster wepon. All troops in the Verdun army donned a Combat helmet or Black Cap.

th 4 weeks of constripting organising,preparing and waiting the new republic struck. There full full fleet jumped out of hyperspace and a visious space battle insued. the new republic had been expecting this and all transport ships were held in reserve. The rebels deployed a full half of there fighters and the emperials also half. the fighters dogfighted eachover and the capital ships landed salvo after salvo into eachover. the smaller ships and escorts like the accummlaors and corvets were either forced to retreat or completely destroyed. as the minits grew into hours and the casties went from hundreds to thousands the Imperials found them selfs in a fit state. the rebels had chosen to assult several star destoryers from the front and were taking the full brunt of there visious attack. by this point fundreds of fighters were destroyed and the capital ships began to fall. the mons cals began imploading and a full 2 star destroyers had been destroyed. krane found it wise to save his fleet from complete destoruction and fell back fighting in hit and run tactics as the rebels droped of there assult units. the rebels deployed there first wave away from any imperial Units. and far away from the capital. the marines began to train and raise new sucsesuionsts to fight the empire out of the capital. the republic looked at there Options and found that the city could wait hundreds of years before exhausting there food stocks. and any plantary bombardment was out of the question. so a third task was chosen. straight assult and fight a grim war of attrition. the rebels lauched there assult 2 months after landing all the time being harassed by krane and his fleet. the republic sourounded the city and assaulted with hundreds of thousands of fighting me. The rebels had found that the emperials had dug in deep and the first few thousand men sent in were killed almost in 3 hours. the rebels held in reserve a 5000 Elite combat Regiment donned in phase 1 clone armour with clone wars weapons and vehicles. and a wookie army held to strike when the imperials looked bleak. as fg