Talk:Huntsmen/@comment-25110963-20160511232048/@comment-410526-20160521182613

He has definite underworld links prior to being associated with Cinder. We don't know how skilled the "mafia" of RWBY is, but they definitely exist and Roman is definitely part of it. We also know Junior, Melanie and Miltia are pretty skilled, though they're also not at Roman's level. Clearly all these criminals must have somehow learned to fight somewhere.

Another thing to note is that we don't know how the Atlesian military is trained. For all we know, the general rank-and-file Atlas Soldiers might go through like a 4 month basic training regime and immediately get thrown to active duty, or they might even be reservists who spend most of their time stocking shelves at Remnant Wal-Mart. Whereas people like Roman and other criminals would spend their entire lives learning how to fight the hard way by necessity.