If you’ve read Mitchell’s history you know how this tale plays out. In fact, if you’ve drawn breath in the Inner Sphere in the last fifty years, you know how this story plays out. The Kell Hounds, emplaced behind fortifications strong enough to hold off nearly any regiment save the Steel Dragon, prepared for their glorious last battle. The Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery were no common foes to them, even then.