Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140815002519/@comment-14909251-20140819030214

I have been wanting to say what Zolnir is saying. Although it seems anticlimactic to introduce this thing and then have it get pwned by RWBY, when you consider the fact Roman said they have "a few" of them, it is a lot more imposing. Sure, RWBY managed to take down one, but imagine if there were just one more of those right alongside Roman's. When you consider that they have Bullheads with automatic cannons, their general mooks, and capable fighters like Neo on their side, this is hardly some wimpy force put together. If they can get their hands on the Paladin before anyone else, then one can only imagine what other weapons they could have in their arsenal as well.

They did this fight for the fourth episode. We are just a third of the way through and haven't gotten to the mid-volume break. If you consider the lyrics of "Time to Say Goodbye" and Monty's tweets about Saving Private Ryan, then I daresay we are getting set up for a massive battle as implied by the opening as well. We have no way of knowing what Roman meant by "a few" since he could easily be playing coy with the White Fang. For all we know he is talking about a dozen or more of those things in addition to whatever else is in the arsenal he is providing them.

You also have to allow for the chance that the true objective has nothing to do with what the force itself will do in Vale. Cinder infiltrated Beacon for a reason and the whole assault on the city may just be a convenient diversion when their real objective is at the academy. I mean, both could be important, but Beacon may be what really matters.