I wrote a scenario below in similar format to the old FASA scenarios. It is "quasi-canon" as there's no indication that the Red Lancers would have participated in such an action.
I used the MUL to try to balance the forces in terms of BV.
A co-worker and I managed to get through 2 turns (we set up games during our lunch break), so an "after-action" summary follows as well.
Here it go:
October 3068
Halloran V
Background: The Jihad rages on in the Inner Sphere and Federated Suns troops have invaded the Capellan Confederation under Duke Hasek's Operation Sovereign Justice. Believing Chancellor Sun Tzu to have died in an apparent Davion orbital strike over Sian, Strategic Military Director Talon Zahn declares himself regent and launches a Capellan counter-attack under the Operational name Thunderstrike.
The Third Prong in Operation Thunderstrike targeted several worlds including Halloran V where the 1st Federated Suns Armored Cavalry had previously fallen back to.
ATTACKER
Capellan Confederation
Elements of the Red Lancers
YU HUANG Y-H9G
Sang-Wei Harald Lau (1/3)
TI TS'ANG TSG-9J
Sao-Wei Dmitri Petrov (2/2)
SHADOW HAWK SHD-2K
Sao-Wei Cheung Jiao-Ting (3/4)
STINGER STG-3G
Si-Ben-Bing Vicente Kuwalski (2/2)
Deployment: Two units designated as the "scout force" may deploy on the Eastern half of the Lake Area map (behind the fold line). The remaining two units may enter during any subsequent turn from the Eastern edge, or on the North or South edges East of the fold line. Players alternate placing their first units on the board.
DEFENDER
Federated Suns
Elements of the 1st Federated Suns Armored Cavalry
EXTERMINATOR EXT-4D
Captain David Caldecott (1/2)
VULTURE (MAD DOG) PRIME
Leftenant George Creighton (2/4)
MONGOOSE MON-66
Leftenant Nigel Rogers (2/1)
GRIFFIN GRF-1DS
Lance Sergeant Zeb Hobson (2/4)
Deployment: Two units designated as the "scout force" may deploy on the Western half of the River Delta/Drainage Basin #2 map (behind the fold line). The remaining two units may enter during any subsequent turn from the Western edge, or on the North or South edges West of the fold line.
Special Rules: When deploying their first two units, players should roll dice. Player with lowest total deploys one unit first, and then deployment alternates until both players deploy their scout force.
Victory Conditions:
This is a stand up fight, last man standing wins.
Optional Rules:
*Scout force may be deployed hidden
*Forced Withdrawl rules may be used, in which BV of units will be used to calculate which side wins.
*See Field Manuals for unit specific special rules.
Yellow are represents Davion deployment zone, green represents Liao deployment zone.
"After Action" report:
From the Capellan view point
DEPLOYMENT: The Davion player places his Mongoose and Griffin on the board first, challenged by a Liao Shadow Hawk and Stinger.
TURN 1: Davion forces walk forward, Capellans respond likewise. The Capellan Yu Huang enters the fray after the Stinger jumps.
Davion Griffin fires an LRM 10 barrage at the Yu Hang and misses. Yu Huang returns fire and scores a hit with its ER PPC to the chest. Capellan Shadow Hawk fires its PPC and misses. Stinger and Mongoose do not fire.
TURN 2: Capellan and Davion forces advance to meet one another, and the Davion player brings his Exterminator into play. The Capellan Stinger (out of frame) "bravely" jumps out the Davion's LOS. Davion Griffin targets the Capellan Shadow Hawk with its LRM 10 as the Capellan Yu Huang takes another shot with its ER PPC at the Griffin and.....
...knocks the Griffin down with a devestating hit to the center torso!
The hit location die roll was 1 and 1- center torso with possible critical hit. The critical hit roll was double sixes for three crits! The poor griffin took two engine hits and a gyro hit resulting in the fall.
To the Griffin pilot's consolation, 6 missiles from his LRM 20 (from a result of 2 on the Cluster hits) hit the Shadow Hawk. Amazingly enough, the Davion player rolled double 1's as well for hit location, but unfortunately did not end up yielding a critical hit.
A smug Yu Huang pilot surveys the battlefield as a Ti Ts'Ang lurks ominously off the board waiting to be deployed. However, the Davions still have a captured Vulture up their sleeve!
To be continued...