We were ordered to secure the landing pads and destroy the watchtowers. We haven't done that second part yet, have we? We're not attacking the manufactorum itself yet you silly, or taking on the entire regiment on our own. They don't even have that many men, and especially when they're spread out among the facilities as they are you are really overestimating the amount of firepower they have, especially when apparently two of our landings haven't even been responded to yet. We've also got far more numbers than you're making it out to be, and I think you're biased because of this whole idea you've got in your head that stormtroopers are supermen or something, which I don't know where you're pulling it from. >.>
We'll take casualties, but our job is to get rid of the towers so that we don't experience far, far more when our armour lands and goes plooie because they have rockets or lascannons or, god forbid, bloody heavy meltas in those towers. It's really important that we destroy them. Two-thirds of our forces are experiencing little to no resistance so we need to capitalise on this by moving forward!
We're on the ground. The commanders don't know the whole picture yet. So until they do, we need to take some initiative and get this done. If we take a licking, then what's the worst that happens? We lose some infantry (you know, the ones you would have everyone believe are useless?), pull back and then the armour does what we couldn't do. But we won't know we couldn't have done it, and saved our armour some possibly heavy casualties if we don't try.
And another thing, they don't have any reserves. Just the men in this facility of theirs. And according to one of my manuals as well as Rhyme's post about the numbers of squads we've got slightly less than 100 men on each of the pads, not sixty! That's plenty, not to mention some have grenade launchers and detpacks, and all of them have Kraks and frags! Drop infantry is bloody built for assaults! That's what they do! You know what they're not built for? Digging in. No airborne unit is. Their firepower isn't sustainable. But that doesn't matter if they're assaulting and they can use their grenades and put their specialised training to use.