Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-294840-20170719134411/@comment-26018514-20170731082544

SpiritedDreaming wrote: But the train wasn't anywhere near the tunnels of Vale as it set off, it had a long way to go to get there. It took it at least 10 minutes going at speed. And the Grimm were only released into the city in that one area, and only because RWBY didn't stop the train. If they had stopped the train, the Grimm wouldn't have had a hole into Vale to enter through.

So if Ironwood bombed Mountain Glenn, he would have collapsed the roof on the White Fang operation, which included the train since Ruby got dragged past it by the White Fang guards, and sealed the entrance to the tunnel the train went down, meaning the White Fang couldn't send people down it to blow a hole in the end and open the way for Grimm. All that dust would have gone off when the train was hit by the rubble and explosions of the bombs, meaning all that would be left would literally be a smoking crater where a city used to be underground. 10 minutes at speed isn't close? I'm not sure how to respond to that(as obviously wrong as it is)... as I was refering to an attack the WF would then instigate on their own Schedule having abandoned the newly damaged caverns. and as I was saying, the bombing would either need to be akin to a nuclear blast radius on a random mountain on foreign soil no-one has even looked at before... or Ironwood would have needed to send scouts anyways as that cavens damaged portions were still far enough from the train it could have easily escaped being damaged at all... dust isn't that volatile it would be damaged in reinforced casings inside a reinforced train.