User blog comment:ForeignAgent/Pain is your reward for watching me.../@comment-35211091-20180414093132

I have attempted to post this twice and the internet ate my comment twice. The writers went artsy to show how far each of the girls had progressed. If you wanted pragmatism, after Weiss was revived, caste haste on Qrow (and Ozpin if she could), beat Emerald and Mercury down. Everyone else could distract Hazel and keep Leonardo in cover by taking pot shots at him. Then beat Hazel down when he's that last one standing.

Battles The Battle of Beacon was a statement. Salem had the world watch as she brought low the great and powerful Ozpin, humiliated the Atlesian military and sowed distrust of Huntsmen.

The Battle of Haven wasn't supposed to be a battle. They turned Leonardo. You can't have a chess match if a king is already in checkmate. So it was supposed to be a smash and grab. Salem's plan: 1. Grab Relic 2. Kill Leonardo 3. Blow up CCT. 4. Mistral blames White Fang This plan would have succeeded even with Blake and Faunus army interrupting. Cinder decided to add two ambushes to this. She would get revenge on Ruby then steal the spring maiden's power. So Cinder left the battle early because 1. Time was of the essence. Someone may notice gunfire at the empty school, find White Fang standing around and call the cops. 2. She couldn't trust Raven and Vernal. They could have alerted Qrow and would turn on her at a certain point. Even if they killed Qrow and his crew, Cinders team would be too exhausted to take Raven and a full power maiden. (From Cinders point of view, Raven told Vernal not to waste her Maiden power on Weiss.)

Ozpin Ozpin wants all the evidence before he commits an action. Going with a gut feeling breeds uncertainty. Uncertainty breeds doubt. Doubt brings fear and dissension. Fear brings the Grimm. Ozpin is right that jumping to conclusions ends badly. He has probably seen it hundreds of times. Ozpin didn't reveal himself to Hazel. Oscar managed to sneak up the stairs, beat Leonardo with Ozpin's signiture cane and Leonardo still had to tell Hazel that it was Ozpin.

Hazel Tyrian has a tail and a faster fighting style. Hazel is slower and can take the hit. Hazel is a "tank." Hazel didn't care about the hit. As for his motivation, team WTCH seems to be a "dark" version of team RWBY. Ruby/Cinder: Both are young women who have supernatural powers. Weiss/Watts: Prominent Atlesian citizens. Blake/Tyrion: Both are ninja faunus who had/have abusive relationships with their superiors. Yang/Hazel: Protective older siblings that fight using their fists whose semblances work off a damage mechanic. Hazel is what Yang can become if Ruby died.

White Fang The White Fang members signed up to kill humans. Friends and family thought to be safe in Menangerie is a different story. Also morale probably took a hit when Adam tried to activate the bombs and started shouting like an unhinged teeenager. Fighting to the death against overwhelming odds didn't seem like a good idea. Adam probably brought a platoon's worth of Faunus to carry the bombs up the mountain path. They could have been isolated and neutralized squad by squad so the alarm wasn't raised.

Adam Adam leads from the front. Leonardo had the school cleared. The White Fang came up a secluded mountain pass. Haven is seperate from Mistral proper. (Beacon was seperate from Vale.) There wasn't much risk. Handwritten mail isn't reliable. The CCT system is offline. The menangerie branch of the White Fang was probably rounded up or in hiding. The message could be sitting on Adams desk at their Headquarters but he could have been in the field for a while. Adam couldn't shoot the bombs because the explosive charge may be armored to prevent accidental activation. Also the dust could be treated so that it will only react to an electric current. (C4 is this way. Adam getting taken down in one punch was because he didn't expect Blake to him so hard. Sparring would be a thing for Blake and Adam to do in between missions. Blake is probably faster than Adam where he has the power. The difference now is Blake doesn't have doubts about fighting him. He is an enemy to be destroyed, not a friend who can be saved. (Compare Blake and Yang from season one. Blake had the skills and speed but lacked conviction. Yang had conviction but lacked skill.) Adam made a mistake and was laid out for it. He is still powerful and dangerous. Blake helped Adam plan the missions. She knows what he will do in a given situation. That is why she called Sun back. Adam would pick them off one by one if they went after him. (The Brutal Force.)

Question The seer is a Grimm. It is armed. It disarmed Leonardo and killed Leo while he was panicing. Why is this unbelievable?

Question Blake isn't part of the White Fang? Nor was she vying for a leadership position. Adam buffalo'd the White Fang into working for Cinder and other humans. A lot of faunus died in the season 2 raid. This raid ended badly. Seems that the people Adam is working for would sacrifice faunus as tools.

Question Why does everyone assume every huntsmen is dead? 1. The professors that work at Haven should live in Mistral. 2. The police could have a team of dedicated huntsmen. (A SWAT team equivalent, huntsmen that joined up after retiring.) 3. A huntsmen guild. ( Something like the "Pathfinder Society.") The independent hunstmen are dead. The ones that could be written off as "The Grimm got them." Qrow is upset because they were his aquaintances. People he respected. Thats why he paid off the one guys bar tab.

Question Juane was fighting Cinder. He assumed he would be killed rather quickly. Cinder decided to be sadistic and impale Wiess. Aura needs to be conciously maintained. Vernal was impalled by Cinders Grimm arm which may bypass Aura.

Question Qrows semblence would actually explain most of this stuff. But in tabletop gaming you can succeed at a "to hit" roll but cause minimum damage. So it would explain why the villains aren't as effective as you seem to believe they should be.

Question The ship captain got the faunus to a port. Mistral controls the most territory of the kingdoms so they have to have a pretty wide transportation infrastructure. Ilia This is more political. 1.Ilia was orphaned and raised by the White Fang. At 17 she would be turned into a martyr for the White Fang. 2.You can't punish Ilia without punishing Blake. Blake was Adam's second in command. Anything Ilia had done, Blake was probably privy to worse things. So punshing Ilia would make the Belladonna's look heartless and hypocritical.

Ilia's motivations were described in Blakes character short. The human children at her school laughed at the Faunus dying in the mine collapse. Ilia started a fight.

Raven Yang covered this in her speech. Salem would hound Raven to the ends of the world. This plan would work if her Tribe was still hidden. Now though Raven could find her entire tribe dead despite working for Salem.

Blake Blake was falling for Adam. Adam followed Sienna Khan. Blake stayed with Adam. Teenagers don't think with their brains.

Qrow Qrow went dark after that season 1 message. Tyrian probably killed everyone who saw him. Hazel probably killed all his targets in isolated areas away from witnesses. Qrow figured Raven held the Spring Maiden at the bandit camp. No one expected Raven to kill a young girl for the maidens power. When was he supposed to see that? They had everyone convinced Vernal was the Spring Maiden.