Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160131163802/@comment-64.233.172.140-20160202041014

Also the news broadcast at the end of "The beginning of the End" episode made it clear that all available Huntsmen where needed at the outskirts of the city, possibly at Mountain Glen. This means the Huntsmen where stretched thin already. To put it bluntly most of Vale's Huntsmen went to the perimeter of the kingdom to defend Vale, and are currently too far away from Beacon to help it soon enough. Even if they can drop the onslaught of Grim and Rush back to the kingdom it will take awhile.

Also "No brakes," implied that no one had ever tried to bring Grim directly into a Kingdom before. To the people of Remnant the only logical way a Grim attack could reach the inner city is for the outer defenses to fall first. They definitely never imagined the White Fang to actually fly Grim into the very center of the city, bypassing the outer defenses. As a result the Government probably believed they only needed enough Huntsman to Police the center of the city and sent all the other to the outer defenses. Now center Vale only has a police action force in place of a needed army to defend central Vale.

-Defcon Deceiver