After Action Review (AAR) #6: The Battle for Vianda, Part 2

Stardate: Fiday, 104-130 ABY/TAg Market Island Security Forces

Subsector: Shannekam

Planet: Zenya

Region: The Tau-Tau Autonomous District

Situation Report:  Opening Phase of the Battle of Vianda

Mid-Morning, Local Time 

The 1st Maniple/7th Cohort finally stirred and marched up the Vianda Pass Road.

Meanwhile, battledroids from the 2nd & 3rd Maniples attempted to concentrate their small arms fire against Constabulary positions. 

Back on Vianda Peak, two Constabulary squads opened fire as lead elements of the 1st Maniple approached their roadblock.  

Battledroids of the 3rd Maniple swept through the undefended portions of the town in an attempt to encircle the defenders. 

Constabulary squads returned fire, but only one battledroid squad appeared to take casualties and was pinned down.  

Several battledroid squads then launched an assault against three Constabulary-held structures; Vianda City Hall, the Radiant Star Hotel and the Trade & Commerce building.

The charge stalled as one battledroid squad was gunned down, one was pinned and another sustained some casualties.  

In retaliation, the battledroid squads supporting the failed charge opened fire against one Constabulary squad holding the Radiant Star Hotel.  The concentrated small arms fire killed, or incapacitated all the defenders.

Battledroids then launched a second assault, this time driving back the constables.  One squad entered the hotel occupied by Alpha Company's command post. 

While the battledroids searched the building, command post personnel hastily destroyed whatever classified material they had.

As the battledroids approached their end of the hotel, Alpha Company commander, Captain Clifton Verlaine, ordered everyone to evacuate.  The command post retreated under a hail of blaster fire and several constables fell.   One Constabulary squad prevented a flanking assault against the retreating company command post, but paid a high price for their actions.  Nearly everyone in the squad was killed or wounded.  The survivors continued their retreat and regrouped in the nearby jungle.  

The constables holding Vianda's City Hall building then came under renewed assault...

...and were slowly being driven back, fighting room by room.  

As the lead elements of the 1st Maniple/8th Cohort approached the eastern edge of Vianda, they ran into a nasty surprise:  A booby-trapped roadblock.  The explosion destroyed an entire squad of battledroids.