Is it just me, or did you all feel a sense of outrage when you read that the last of the Prosperina Hussars (the 3rd PH) were forced to merge into the Pesht Regulars. Might as have taken them around the corner and put them up against the wall. Surely not the Pesht dropbeats.
If I was a Combine supporters I'd making voodoo dolls of the Catalyst staff!! :)
... and you seem to be ...
There were a few crazy moves in that book. The saddest moment for the CC for me was probably Faith McCarron, though the warrior houses decimation also ranks (at least most of the good ones made it).