PDF 1st Printing, Page 122Issue: "The Lyran Commonwealth’s war was a mixed bag. It lost many worlds, including several important planets such as Nox, Juniper, and Alula Australis..."Juniper is mentioned elsewhere in First Succession War as a low value world:
"Even low-value planets were targeted, such as Juniper, a Kannon Shire colony barely fifteen years old when Kurita raiders hit the main settlement and its surrounding lake valley with strontium-laced nuclear ordnance." (Page 62)
The two contradict each other; given that Juniper doesn't seem to exist in any other canon source or on any maps outside First Succession War that I can easily lay my hands on, it would appear that it's more likely to have been an insignificant world than an important one.
Solution: Replace Juniper with another world - possibly Dove, given that Dove is described in Field Report 2765: LCAF as being home to a major aerospace manufacturer producing more aerospace fighters than almost anywhere outside Sol, and got nuked and poisoned badly enough it was declared dead in 2815.
PDF 1st Printing, Page 44, Para 3Issue: "By the end of 2795, the Dragon’s banner flew over the worlds of Odell, Saginaw, and Delavan, while minor worlds such as Acoma, Arcadia, Chota, and Nouveau Toulouse began dying, either as a result of direct wartime damage or the starvation and disease that followed the collapse of their local trade and infrastructure"Arcadia isn't marked on the map on page 44 as being a dead or dying world, unlike the others mentioned in the text; in addition, as established by
Handbook: House Davion and
House Davion (The Federated Suns) Arcadia was one of the garden worlds in the Crucis Pact and was a contemporary of New Avalon, nearly becoming the capital of the Federated Suns and with at least one First Prince marrying a noblewoman from Arcadia. This would seem contradictory with it being listed as a minor world in a list of dying minor worlds.
Solution: replace Arcadia in the list with Chaumont (or possibly Korvitz or Maison). Chaumont is another minor Star League-era colony world that died in the First Succession War, and is marked as a dead or dying world on the map on P. 44, but also usefully isn't inside the area marked as being conquered by the first or second Combine invasion areas, which would help emphasise that the damage caused by the invasion on trade and infrastructure wasn't limited solely to those worlds that actually changed hands. Chaumont is also in the Fairfax combat region, so it could have been invaded by the Combine in the opening stages and be one of the handful of worlds mentioned as being recaptured (without being named) during Prince John's Operation SOLAR SHIELD. Korvitz and Maison are Crucis March worlds near New Avalon that also died off during the First Succession War and are marked as dead or dying worlds, and might also be worth listing in place of Arcadia, as they are far enough from the invasion corridor to be unlikely to have been conquered and less likely to have been attacked, but would help emphasise the effects of transport disruption - although Maison reappears on maps of 2822 in
Handbook: House Davion and
Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, which is a little odd (but possibly a result of confusion between Maison and the Lyran Commonwealth system of Maisons?).
Alternatively, if the need is for the dead and dying minor worlds listed in the text to all be within the shaded invasion areas of the map on the same page, replace Arcadia with Tallassee or Versailles.
PDF 1st Printing, Page 134-135Issue: Several of the AFFS unit locations in 2821 within the deployment table are wrong, as per this comment from Adrian Gideon:
There are a few such minor (final deployment) errors in that table.
On the Federated Suns final deployment, the First Arcadian Cuirassiers should be on Raman, the Davion Assault Guards should be on Bromhead, and both the Bald Eagles and Night Eagles should be on Demeter.
PDF 1st Printing, Page 92, Map ImageIssue: The map showing the Confederation/Suns border changes throughout the war doesn't match the text. This was mentioned as errata a few posts above mine, but having gone through the text in detail, there are more issues than were identified there.
The timeline for the various border world exchanges based on pages 81-82 (Quinn's War: the Confederation-Suns Front) is:
2795 - CCAF seizes Caselton, Mirach (see below) (by August) and Demeter by Dec (note: Caselton and Mirach are shown on the map on page 45 as being conquered by the Combine in the 2787-2791 invasion waves, although I'm presuming the AFFS had managed to recapture them at some point)
2796 - CCAF seizes Farwell (Apr), Sanilac (Jun) and Sonnia (Oct)
2797 - CCAF seizes Tawas (Jun), Carmacks, Ogilvie, Sekulman, Salem, Branzoll, Victoria
2798 - CCAF seizes Ulan Batar (Jun)
2799 - CCAF seizes Everett, Mirach (see above), Schedar - (Note: Mirach is listed as having been captured twice; on page 98, in the list of FedSuns counterattacks, it's noted that Tedibyhr was recaptured by the FedSuns in 2807, but with no mention of it's original occupation date in the text anywhere. Based on Tedibyhr's location near Everett and Schedar, and the mention of Mirach twice, I think the 2799 capture of Mirach should actually be Tedibyhr being captured)
The timeline for the various border world exchanges based on page 82 (Caught in the Capellan Crossfire) is:
2800 - CCAF relinquishes Salem, Victoria, Carmacks and Sekulman to redeploy forces elsewhere
The timeline for the various border world exchanges based on page 98 (The Davion Counter-Offensives) is:
2799 - AFFS recaptures Sanilac
2800 - AFFS recaptures Tawas
2807 - AFFS recaptures Caselton
2809 - AFFS recaptures Ulan Batar, Farwell
2809-10 - AFFS recaptures Demeter
2810 - AFFS recaptures Tedibyhr
2810-11 - AFFS recaptures Mirach
And on page 97 (Liao's Last Play: The Battle for Chesterton) it's mentioned that at some point after 2812 but before 2821 the CCAF recaptured Caselton, Farwell, Mirach and Ulan Batar.
This leaves a lot of inconsistencies/errors that could be captured more accurately in several different ways:
Solution 1: Re-title the map on page 92 to "Capellan Confederation-Federated Suns Front 2786-2800" and make the following changes:
Demeter should be shaded in, as it had been captured by the CCAF
Sanilac should be hatched in, as it had been captured by the CCAF and then lost
Farwell should be shaded in, as it had been captured by the CCAF
Tawas should be hatched in, as it had been captured by the CCAF and then lost
Carmacks should be hatched in, as it had been captured and then abandoned
Salem should be hatched in, as it had been captured and then abandoned
Victoria should be hatched in, as it had been captured and then abandoned
Sekulman should be hatched in, as it had been captured and then abandoned
Branzoll should be shaded in, as it had been captured by the CCAF (although I'm not clear when it was recaptured by the AFFS, or if it was abandoned)
Ogilvie should be shaded in, as it had been captured by the CCAF (although I'm not clear when it was recaptured by the AFFS, or if it was abandoned)
Tedibhyr should be shaded in, as it had been captured by the CCAF
Atlas, Bodnath, Kumqwat, Shaunavon, Daol and Mendham should be unshaded, as their capture occured much later
Solution 2: Keep the map title as is, and make the following changes
Demeter should be hatched in, as it was captured and then lost in a reversal
Farwell should be shaded to show it's capture either in 2811-2816 or 2816-2821 (to match Ulan Batar on the map)
Sanilac should be hatched in, as it was captured and then lost in a reversal
Mirach should be re-shaded to match Ulan Batar
Caselton should be re-shaded to match Ulan Batar
Carmacks, Salem, Victoria, Sekulman and Branzoll should be hatched, to show their capture and abandonment/loss
Tedibyhr should be hatched, to show it's capture and subsequent loss
PDF 1st Printing, Page 94, The Second AFFS Counteroffensive: Squeezing the Bulge, Paras 1&2PDF 1st Printing, Page 97, Liao's Last Play: The Battle for Chesteron, Para 7PDF 1st Printing, Page 98, The Davion Counter-Offensives, 2807PDF 1st Printing, Page 115, Timeline of the First Succession War, 2795PDF 1st Printing, Page 116, Timeline of the First Succession War, 2807, 2816PDF 1st Printing, Page 154, Battle History, Para 3Issue: Caselton is incorrectly spelled as "Castleton"
Solution: Correct spelling to Caselton
PDF First Printing, Page 82, "Caught In The Capellan Crossfire", 1st ParaIssue: The paragraph contains the following sentence: "Prior to the Kentares Massacre, sporadic, border-testing raids between Capellan and Combine recon units were common, but had begun to taper off by the mid-2
890s." From the context in the section, this should be 2
790s, not 2890s.
Solution: Correct the reference to 2790s.
PDF 1st Printing, Page 137Issue: The location of the 3rd Atrean Dragoons on the FWLM deployment table in 2786 is given as New Dallas. However, the information given on page 30 about the fate of New Dallas specifies that the 3rd Atrean Dragoons, 5th Atrean Dragoons and 7th Marik Militia attacked New Dallas in March 2787. Neither the 5th Atrean Dragoons or the 7th Marik Militia are shown on page 137 as being on New Dallas, indicating that the location given for the 3rd Atrean Dragoons at this point is wrong.
Solution: Have the 3rd Atrean Dragoons listed elsewhere.
PDF 1st Printing, Page 139Issue: The 17th Sian Dragoons entry has a dagger symbol next to the unit name, which the key states means the unit was a former SLDF unit. However, the 17th Sian Dragoons already existed in 2765 according to Field Report 2765: CCAF, and there's no mention of the 17th Sian Dragoons as a former SLDF unit on the page 32 listing "Those Left Behind", although the 18th-24th Sian Dragoons are all listed as former SLDF units.
Solution: Delete the dagger symbol next to the 17th on page 139.
