Caught off guard by the sudden assault of Black Beast Squad's twenty CMC-300 power armor units, the Clone Troopers stationed at the Republic Army Command were at a loss. The weapons in their hands could barely damage such state-of-the-art power armor!
The commanders at every level in the Duchy of Dawn had apparently become quite adept at using this technological gap to turn local engagements into asymmetric warfare.
If Black Beast Squad had been deployed to other battlefields, they would have found it difficult to achieve such overwhelming results against armored Galactic Republic units like AT-TE walkers and TX-130 Saber tanks.
However, using the exceptional mobility of the CMC-300 power armor, Black Beast Squad had carried out a long-range raid. Seizing the moment when the Galactic Republic Clone Army had just launched an attack only to suffer a crushing counterblow, they slipped between several Republic clone army units and charged straight into the rear!
Moreover, every member of Black Beast Squad was a vicious outlaw. They might have found it hard to coordinate with one another, but each of them possessed combat power far beyond that of an ordinary person!
"Butcher" Bacheco hefted an E-WEB heavy repeating blaster and sprayed wildly. This heavy weapon, normally issued only at the company level in the Galactic Republic, delivered utterly insane firepower! Though the E-WEB's range was less than ideal—a common flaw of blaster weapons in an atmosphere—that was no flaw at all for a beast like Bacheco.
What he wanted was to pour the fiercest possible firepower onto the enemy's heads in the shortest possible time! Range? He would have loved nothing more than to shove the barrel right into the enemy's faces!
Bacheco was now practically a humanoid tank, nearly equal to one in firepower, speed, and protection! Under his dense