Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20151101163739/@comment-26018514-20151102055344

Azurebluecyan wrote: Well ignoring Rozen's unnecessary spitefulness. And assuming Nora can pull off her weapon's supermood whenever like he suggests. How exactly does that make JNPR's plan bad? It makes it a lot less forthcoming than that direction, but it in no way makes the plan they did bad. Just less effective. Which I feel is something that a lot of auxilliary readers do.

Yeah their plan could have been significantly more 'efficient' but it not being so doesn't mean the plan they came up with is terrible on its own. I am responding now because I only now finished catching up after returning from work.

Jaune's plan was stupid, they ran farther from the sniper than it would have taken to enter the treeline, that is a point he could have taken the sniper as a threat(admittedly risky), the next point was when Nora had Mr. cattleprod by the metaphorical balls... she could have eliminated him, the sniper was beyond the rocks and not a threat, and Ren was free to relieve Pyrrha of a foe... at that point the smart move would have been for Ren to take a foe, have Jaune watch the sniper or back him up, and let Nora eliminate one threat while Pyrrha neutralized the other...

Instead Jaune pulled a "Hail Nora", risking her getting eliminated by the sniper, only mitigating her risk by asking the rest of the team to sacrifice play and single handedly put all 4 back into play for the sniper... all to possibly have a chance Nora could "catch the lightning" and power up... when she was steadily charging up till that point while also holding back a foe he basically told her to save for later...

Most of these strategic missteps aren't just a mistake, they run contrary to actual strategic thought. He put plan B ahead of plans A & C, even though plan C was both less risky and already working.