Talk:Huntsman Academies/@comment-112.200.192.135-20180227124338/@comment-4010415-20180227182933

1. They only made small changes to the plan. The thing in Volume 2 was only part of the plan. Most likely, it was just something they were going to do to add even more to the Grimm invasion. Imagine Volume 3 going the same exact way, except Roman also leads Grimm directly into the middle of the city via that train tunnel. Ironwood had soldiers stationed around the perimeter of the city, but no one would've been expecting a subway train to smash open a tunnel that leads directly into the city. The thing in Volume 2 was not the ENTIRE plan, just PART of it.

Using Penny was also only a small change. Cinder likely already had plans for another way to stir up negative emotions, like how she used Yang. But when she found out that Penny was a robot disguised as a girl, she decided that would be even better than what she had planned.

Small changes to the plan do not mean that their plan suddenly wasn't made over time.

2. Did you consider that the other students headed into the city to protect the civilians who could not protect themselves? They couldn't just restrict all their efforts to Beacon. There's a reason Ozpin told Qrow and Glynda to get to the city. We even saw Cardin out there fighting alongside those two. Atlas' soldiers were likely out there too.

We just didn't see the other students, Huntsmen, or soldiers because they simply weren't important enough for the camera to focus on.

3. No, but the White Fang forced the good guys to split their attention away from the Grimm. Without the White Fang and the hijacked robots fighting, the good guys would've been able to focus on just fighting the Grimm, but instead, they had to fight three different armies, so to speak.

4. Read #3. Having to fight three different "armies" at once is more overwhelming than having to fight only one or two.

5. Honestly, even if they did, there's nothing the other kingdoms could've done.

As Lionheart said in Volume 5, Vale wasn't the only kingdom watching what happened at the tournament. The other three kingdoms were watching too. Vale wasn't the only kingdom that had a surge of negative emotion in response to, not just Penny, but Cinder's speech, the Grimm invasion alarm, and the video Mercury broadcast of people being attacked by Grimm, the White Fang, and the Atlas military's robots. The other three kingdoms were affected by that too. As such, that surge of negative emotion drew the Grimm toward the other three kingdoms. They had to defend their own kingdoms and could not spare warriors to help Vale.

There's a good reason why Salem's group chose to attack during the tournament.