In House Marik - The Free Worlds League <1622>, page 80, it says "A full strength regiment consists of 108 BattleMechs, 18 Aerospace Fighters, and a full compliment of support personnel (Techs, Scouts, engineers, etc)."
In Field Manual - Free Worlds League <1699>, page 17, it says "The bulk of the League's front-line forces are organized in a standard grouping called a brigade. Brigades are often formed around a BattleMech regiment and contain two to four armor or infantry regiments."
The House book suggest that there is no attached armor, infantry or artillery support of any consequence, although the "full compliment of support personnel" might suggest a structure similar to the BattleForce structure in NAIS - The Fourth Succession War - Military Atlas Vol 1&2 (<1624> & <1635>). In those source books, each unit is usually granted a handful of infantry platoons, a few lances of armor and a few more of unarmed/unarmored trucks, for what seems to be the protection of the Regimental headquarters and possibly scouting/recon mission... Meanwhile the Field Manual looks more like a scaled down version of an RCT (which in 3025 was only deployed by the Federated Suns). Which would make a certain sense that military units across the Inner Sphere would adopt a larger organization to have parity with Davion units.
My question is this though... Did Marik adopt the Brigade structure sometime after 3025, or was it always in some form before then?
Please note, I am primarily interested in cite-able sources, from before 3058 (which is suppose to be time the Field Manual was written).
Thanks in advance,
Caz