Something I noticed at the Battle of Coruscant

[Zwinmar]

It really dont take much skill to load a shell into the breach of a cannon. So I could easily see them recruiting the infantry to do it if needed.

Also, it's not a huge conceptual leap from clones manning self-propelled turbolasers and other ground artillery to clones manning turbolasers and other artillery installed in bays on warships.

Of course, it's also not a huge conceptual leap to conclude, as others have, that not everyone wearing the same armor as a clone trooper is necessarily a clone trooper. Even some Jedi wore the stuff, after all.

Is it possible what we saw was that ground based artillery. Maybe the gun portions of it are stored near the hull so they can be used as extra fire power in battle. It like 2 guns for the price of one.

Hmm that is a good point (on all). The Magnalock hatches to the hangar bay for example would make a good place to start

[Pcm979]

Those figures are unteniable and supposedly being phased out. Besides, even if those were the numbers it'd be more cost-effective to just draft trillions of volunteers and then the precious clones bullshit wouldn't matter.

I said they were untenable. I'll emphasise:

Actually, according to LoE, Clone lives were an extremely precious commodity towards the end of the Clone War. While this was placed in the context of the ridiculously low number of 1.2 million Clones, it still makes sense if it's used in the Units=Battalions sense, given the fact that the Droid troops outnumber them hideously.

Even given the 1.2 million battalions interpretation, the number of Battle Droids numbers in the high quadrillions. They're still massively outnumbered.