Hello mechjocks, shrapnel here. Yes it’s me, please do excuse the voice. Like the world of Brinton I’ve got the scourge plague, probably the Capellans..again, and lost my voice. It’s very slowly coming back but it’s going to take a few weeks according to the docs.

Anyway, it has been 20 days, 36 stories, a new podcast, and many  sleepless nights but it’s been a blast!   Whilst losing the voice is a blow we are so close to the end of  Tukkayid, I couldn’t leave it there my dear friends. So I have drafted  (somewhat under duress) some cover. Everyone please meet your  replacement narrator Shrapnellena.

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20th May  

Clan Wolf had enough mobility to work around the ComStar positions in  the Porozistu Mountains, they chose to engage Precentor Stinson’s 11th  Com Guards directly, eventually breaking off a series of small  skirmishes to gather for a coordinated attack. Beta Galaxy inflicted  heavy damage on the 11th, even though Khan Garth Radick was killed at  the peak of the battle, but the war ended before the Com Guards 13th  could join the fray.   Despite the short-lived blow to the Wolf Clan’s moral inflicted by the  Khan Raddick’s death, the Com Guards could not unseat the Wolves from  either Brzo or Skupo. Striking at Clan Wolf supply lines proved  fruitless, because Khan Kerensky heavily reinforced these vital points.  Her knowledge of Inner Sphere tactics gave Clan Wolf it successes.

After 21 days of fighting the Ilkhan of the Clans conceded victory to  the Comstar. Only Clan Wolf successfully gained control of both its  target cities. Clan Ghost Bear held Spanac but failed to take Luk. Based  on its surviving forces Clan Jade Falcon achieved a draw.  Both sides suffered staggering losses. It soon became apparent that  Tukayyid represented much more than the largest military battle in three  centuries. The Com Guards ended the conflict with nearly 40% dead and  more than that number injured. Clan Smoke Jaguar suffered the highest  losses with 32% dead, while Clan Wolf lost only 20% percent of its  forces on Tukayyid.  Both the clans and the Inner Sphere sacrificed too many men and women  for either side to claim a true victory, but this battle represented on  of the Inner Sphere’s finest hours. ComStar willingly bloodied the soil  of Tukayyid to stand between Terra and the Clan’s tyranny for the next decade and a half.