Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25110963-20160117025514/@comment-26397825-20160121003245

No. I think it's time for expansion and showcasing the multitude of characters they've already got. I also think it's time to see the other teams outside of a tournament setting. They don't need to introduce more character when they've already got 21 tertiary first years (BRNZ, ABRN, NDGO, Ciel, CFVY, CRDL, Flynt and Neon), 18 secondary characters (JNPR, SSSN, Glynda, Qrow, Port, Oobleck, Roman, Neo, Emerald, Mercury, Ironwood, Adam) and 6 main characters (RWBY, Cinder, Ozpin) sitting in Vale waiting to do something. I most likely put a few people in the wrong catgerories there, but that's still 45 named characters sitting around Vale that are capable of doing stuff, and I'm not including Penny since she's offline at the moment. I'm also not counting characters that haven't been named yet, of which there are at least 4 (the other half of FNKI and Penny's team)

That's more than enough character to showcase, they don't need to introduce more. Unless they introduce people like Weiss's father (which I doubt, because it's the wrong time for daddy issues), Cinders boss (which I doubt, because it's too early in the series to be revealing who her boss is, even if they reveal that she has a boss), or the other Maidens (which I doubt, because this arc is focusing on the Fall Maiden and the introduce the others would draw away from that).

I would be extremely disappointed if they decided that none of the other characters they have introduced will help out with the invasion, and instead decide to bring in more characters. In fact, the only characters I would be okayish with being introduced is one or two qualified Huntsmen for Glynda and Qrow to work with in the city itself, but I wouldn't want them to be around for long until much later in the series.