Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35086897-20180410025240/@comment-14909251-20180415235707

Soldwolf wrote: That is true Sentry 616 but it does make it sound like there isn't much left. And I know the myth of a rag -tag army pulling out the win is stantard anime and literary trope, In reality that dosn't happen very often. and it take a lot of incopatance from the opposing sides leadership to make it happen (US involment in Veitnam is one example) And Salem isn't incomatant by any means. And there is one thing that is being assumed and that is a false assumtion is that Haven Fell. It didn't, it was saved by the actions of the Menagerie milita and the Mistral Police. there was no Grimm attack and the Relic was saved. So in effect it was Salem's forces and the WF that lost. I will admit the defeat of Adam Torres's faction of the WF was minor. but making Emerald, Mercury, and Hazal retreat was a small but needed boost to the core characters of Team RWBY and Team JNPR. It was something of a Pyrrhic victory, no pun intended, similar to Vale. Beacon fell in Vale, but the Relic is apparently protected and the Grimm presence is contained to Beacon rather than whole the city being taken. Haven was more of a straight win on the surface, but Lionheart's betrayal has left their defenses greatly weakened. Fair to say at this point that Atlas and Vacuo are probably the only Kingdoms with any kind of serious in-tact defense. Were Atlas to fall, there is little reason to believe Vale or Mistral could last long after that. Not to say they would fall immediately, but if you were trying to pick the most secure place then it would have to be Vacuo.