Talk:Pyrrha Nikos/@comment-32753176-20180319001937/@comment-27144409-20180319025401

Plus, sometimes it is best to eliminate high priority targets, despite the risks.

Yes they could have regrouped outside of Beacon, but then an unscathed Cinder and the ever-growing horde, particularly the game breaking Dragon, would be able to attack at basically their leisure from an entrenched position.

Maybe Pyrrha didn't "need" to die, but pulling back would allow the enemy to press their growing advantage, which included a human monster that could, and probably would, turn a field hospital into a barbeque with negligible effort or cost to her own assets.