A large explosion threw CT-1378 against a rock pillar emanating from the sides of the wall as the droid barricades opened fire. "Fire at will!" He screamed as soon as he recollected himself, and opened fire himself. The droids' defences were impressive, he had to admit. The barricades he had expected didn't exist, but were camouflaged into the terrain, making him suspect this was a Geonosian barrier. Droids didn't have the subtlety for this. The large LR1K turrets hidden in rocky coves largely protected from their small arms fire wreacked havoc on the open ground the clones were on, who were either dead or scramblnig behind minimal cover. Already he counted 7 injured and dead after a few seconds into the engagement, as several repeater blasters opened fire on their position. Peeking over his cover he was forced back as laser bolts whizzed past his head, and he blindly fired several shots over the rock he was hiding behind.
They weren't getting through this by charging it. So much was clear. Quickly thinking about how to deal with the fortifications he tried peeking again to get a beter look of the situation, but was immediately forced into cover again as the large turret made his ample cover shudder and fragmentate little by little. It was a lucky coincidence that the camouflaged geonesean defences only sported their traditional LR1K cannons, who fired vibration waves, capable of turning a clone to soup inside his armour, and frying just about everything right through any armour, making it devastating against vehicles too. However, it had little colletaral damage, which proved to be vital in allowing the 23 remaining attackers hide behind the rocks. "Covering fire!" He yelled and waited a moment before taking a look again, trying to memorize anything important to get an alternative plan up. He saw Geonosians fly in and out of their holes, unwilling to charge over the covered clones' position to be slaughtered without support from the defences. He saw the three LR1K emplacements hidden in the red walls, protected by rocks that also limited their field of fire, but together they provided a nasty crossfire turning the open ground into a killzone. The overhanging rocks above them made them invisible to most superficial scans, and protected them from tossed grenades that weren't pinpoint accurate. But those gave him an idea.
By the time he ducked back into cover, two more clones were downed, and his frown deepened behind his dusty white helmet. He was about to give an order when he heard a change of sound in the enemy lines. The buzzing of wings diminished untill it fell nearly completely silent compared to before, where it orchestrated a theatre of hell along with the turrets blazing off at them. They had entered the cave system and would attempt to outflank them and drive them out of cover. "Squad Charlie and Beta, rig the cave entrances with detonators, Squad Alpha, hit the ridges above the enemy turrets!" He yelled, stepping out of cover to fire a rather unaimed barrage of max charge fire from his DC-15A into the ridges above the gun emplacements, hearing his troopers unleash a battlecry as they did the same. Once more the sudden barrage of fire diminished enemy accuracy enough to give the men enough chance to duck back into cover as one of the LR1K's was crushed beneath a rock, while another one had a large part of its field of fire blocked by fallen rubble, creating an opening in the crossfire the clones could manouvre through. Only the two repeater blaster emplacements now remained, but those were a piece of cake for the trained assault troops with him.
"Storm the Repeaters!" He ordered and opened fire on one of the emplacements, ducking back in cover to reload his rifle. The trick to take down MG fire was to unleash a wave of surpressive fire as other clones sneaked closerby, and would then provide covering fire in their turn to make a rather slow but safe and effective way of getting closer to a repeater turret or even taking it down. Not everyone would advance as to leave a single marksman to attempt and take down the emplacement now the attention was on the other clones. The enemy also didn't know clones were staying behind, so that further improved the chances of the marksmen. It was in their advantage that they were fighting geonosians here and not droids too, because these creatures were prone to morale, and a repeater blaster crew feeling their fire ineffective and their surpressing effect returned to them as they are swarmed and sniped upon are often not eager to fight for much longer. "All squads, advance!"
