Operation Dawnlight

Operation Dawnlight
TF 141 personnel during Operation Dawnlight
Date 21 October - 1 November 2040 Location Bactria Province, Lorica Result Heimdallr Victory Task Force Nicator dissolved, with its commanders arrested Deseleni Loyalists prevented from interfering with the Karakul Lake Event
Belligerents
United Kingdom Erebonian Empire Rubrum Gallia-Bruhl Zanarkand New Akiba Nihhon-koku Democratic East Europan Union Alteria Jutland-Gimli Nibelheim-Saxe-Hanover Basel-Ebel Rhodeia Taoyuan Esthar and Balamb Archadian Federation Calvard	Neo-Seleucid Movement and Loyalists from: Quenmin Joyonghea Bethausia Republic of Concordia Holy Trabian Empire Alderney Group
Commanders and leaders
Yamato Kitagawa Naoto Kitagawa Yukio Kushineda V Darzana Magbaredge Richard Philip Todd Thomas Evans Michael Irving Henry Keith Magnus-Georg Blumentritt Vladimir Peniakoff Lee Xiaoming Niceto Andolini	Darius Tillman Jacob Hawkins Charlie Pearce Paek Kyung-soo Ma Seung-eun Choi Geun-chul Phùng Hạo Nhiên Tôn Phú Thịnh Mg Maung Kan Phone Myo Charles Clérisseau Lavrentis Kristatos Haralambos Mattallis
Units involved
Task Force 141 along with the elements of: Task Force 219 Task Force 853 Vodka Regiment 4th-5th Battalions, Princess Raphtalia's Jutlandish Light Infantry 4th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Rubrum 3rd Battalion, Arseid and Sutherland Highlanders of Erebonia Papa's Private Army 1st Battalion, Royal New Akiba Artillery Regiment Defected TF Nicator Personnel	Task Force Nicator loyal to the Neo-Selucids 3rd/59th Syriannan Mechanized Regiment 1st/136th Qom Infantry Regiment 2nd/27th Concordian Infantry Regiment 4th/33rd Joyonghean Armored Regiment
Strength
3,250 troops 50 helicopters 50 vehicles 10 guns	4,400 troops 75 helicopters 50 vehicles 15 APCs 20 tanks
Casualties and losses
69 dead (primarily from Vodka Regiment) 120 wounded 10 helicopters damaged 6 vehicles	259 dead 211 wounded 1000 captured 10 APCs 21 helicopters 7 tanks

Operation Dawnlight (21 October - 31 October 2040) was the final major operation undertaken by the Heimdallr Task Forces against the Deseleni loyalists of Task Force Nicator. It took place simultaneously with the Showdown at Karakul Lake. It was planned by Brigadier Yamato Kitagawa in order to prevent TF Nicator from interfering with the battle taking place in the latter. This also pitted some of the best troops of Heimdallr Task Forces against TF Nicator, the Neocon Forces' primary Task Force in the war.

The skirmishes and firefights between the two sides took place at 4 towns just near at Karakul Lake. Led by Brigadier Kitagawa in the field, the Heimdallr Task Forces faced a numerically superior but slightly downsized Task Force who remained loyal to the Neocon cause. In the end, the Heimdallr Task Forces, with strong preparations and intel provided by the defectors from TF Nicator, were able to subjugate the remaining TF Nicator members, placing all of its members under arrest, including General Darius Tillman, who tried to flee at the last scene of the firefight.

Following the operation, the Heimdallr Task Forces continued to operate in the area until 1 November 2040, when the Neocon War finally ended. The Heimdallr Task Forces would not see a major engagement again until the 2045-53 Alderney Counter-Operations.