Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140808001942/@comment-11188061-20140810133611

I didn't deny that there will be a fight with the Paladin pre-season. What I'm saying that instead of one, there are two instances where Team RWBY encounters the Paladin - one when it was getting hijacked, and the second when the Paladin is put to evil use. Either one of these are big fights.

Again, as I mentioned before the Paladin has yet to be hijacked. Unless RT decides to skip through the heist part entirely and start next Episode with Roman suddenly showing off, 'Hey look everyone turns out we ALREADY have the Paladin!', which I highly doubt is going to satisfy anyone, we're going to to see at least how the robbery happen.

The first fight I deduce mainly showcase Blake and Sun, fighting to stall the Paladin but ultimately got outgunned by the powerful war machine. We may also have Neptune and Yang (as shown in the Trailer) trailing behind with Bumblebee to try and shoot it down, but I suspect it'll ultimately fail.

The second fight will showcase Team RWBY (and whoever else; maybe even Penny) to help them capture or destroy the Paladin, this time with a solid battle plan.

Of course, there's no way I can predict that these two fights will happen in rapid succession or not - it may even be as you say, just one big battle - but judging from the battle scars on the war machine when Roman showcased it to the White Fang crowd, I dare say that it's very possible.