User blog comment:Zathronas/Speculative author: Ironwood and Atlas army/@comment-25195920-20141021213048

I agree with you here about Ironwood being a good guy and yes i know i was one of the first to call him a traitor, i admit i was wrong. I can see Ironwood heading up another good faction with a more militant way of doing things while Ozpin goes for the more subtle and diplomatic approach in the near future. Really the major problem with his appoach is the traps and more subtle tricks he would likely miss or not be able to handle and the other problem is his robot troops, even the powerful ones like the Paladin, lack an aura which can be a major handicap in a fight agaisnt Grimm or those with auras even if the robots use Dust which i believe they do. Penny is the obvious exception here but even the strongest being alive can be defeated by more intelligent or more numerous foes.