Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28171999-20190208002539/@comment-37471367-20190216043712

BlizzardDragon wrote:

1. I'm well aware. You may recall I am one of their staunchest defenders in that regard. The thing I consider a Reckless Action was their decision to battle the Colossus in general. In retrospect, their best course of action should have been evasion, not confrontation. Have Maria fly around dodging Cordovin's shots whilst they waited for Blake and Yang, then once they were back, get on the manta, then hightail it out of there. Leave Cordovin and the Military to handle the potential threat of the Leviathan, without having damaged the Colossus in the process. Cordovin had no way of alerting Atlas, so if they could simply manage to evade her, they'd be in the clear. Then we wouldn't have had to deal with Cordovin's frankly abrupt HeelFaceTurn, and we could have the heroes do a pure necessary evil and have to acknowledge that rather than Cordovin effectively letting them go off the hook.

So the reckless behavior I'm referring too is bothering to even fight Cordovin, when their priority should have been escaping her. Defend? Yes. Attack? No. Even if Ironwood is made aware of the fact it happened because they had to get the relic to Atlas, I'd like him to atleast point out they didn't need to necessarily fight Cordovin, just act like a fly to her and avoid her.

While your point would be valid, I think you forgot a couple details. That being that Cordo has anti air weaponry, which can be concentrated on one target that would be hard pressed to evade. The only way they managed to avoid losing the ship was honestly dumb luck. First missile shot was shot down by Ruby, and the second did not directly impact. The one that downed the ship temporarily was a direct hit from the cannon. You really think Ruby can take out a full volley? And it doesn’t appear that these ships have countermeasures.

Furthermore, you forget that Cordo can and most likely will call in more gunships...

(Side Note: As someone who majors in the aviation field and has it as a general interest, I will say this to Qrow/Weiss: Those ships are NOT fighters!!! That’s a gunship at best! I refuse to call those things fighters.)

...if she herself cannot catch them, which she does in fact do when her mech is disabled. And the longer it takes to find Yang and Blake (Who are most surely going to be very difficult to pick up), the more time Cordo has to shoot their ship down or call in other personnel to chase them down.

Now if you really want to lecture them on this plan and avoiding fighting, I’ll disclose a fact about radar: It can be evaded without stealth tech. A very tried and true tactic going back to WWII to avoid radar detection is to fly “on the deck” or extremely low. So the best way to avoid confrontation would be to hug the water or ground, or just have a more distant rendezvous point because the radar in the show seems to have a very short range. Come to think of it, why would Atlas place such valuable hardware so far away from any protection?

Then again, I wouldn’t expect the group to know this (And Terra is a civilian contractor, so I would not expect her to know about aerial warfare), because they are trained and educated in fighting on the ground against Grimm, infantry and/or Mechs. Which is why I don’t fault them for what they decide to do.