Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140815002519/@comment-10390252-20140815082136

Okay, that was brilliant! Not as good as Players and Pieces in Volume One but a very, very passable action episode nonetheless!

1) So, the official reason Roman is doing this is because he and White Fang both want the established parts of human civilisation and order destroyed;

2) Interestingly, the Paladin was provided by his 'employer'. That's most likely Cinder but I'd be really interested to know how she did it;

3) Team RWBY have been seriously practising their combo moves and team tactics (including some formation code-names that sound seriously familiar). This includes some interesting specialisation emerging with Blake and Yang handling close assault, Weiss specialising in support roles such as countermeasures and evacuation;

4) So, Neptune isn't the one with the gun-gun! Who is it, I wonder?

5) New character - as yet unnamed but called 'Neo' by Roman or "Deery" in the credits. She's definitely not White Fang, so she's either directly associated with Roman or is one of Cinder's Dark Huntresses;

5) And this one is the huge one, IMHO: Penny has an aura! - I can't wait to see how this one is explained!

6) Oh, and not to forget that Sun and his boys have a tendency to wander off when things get too intense.

Revealed Semblances:
 * Yang - Energy absorption, rather like the 'Bide' attack in Pokémon; I don't think it blocks all damage but it reduces it and she can redirect the energy to her own attacks;
 * Sun - Energy duplicates that can be used as remote self-destruct attack drones;
 * Neopolitan - Ice decoys.

So... I'm thinking a week or two's hiatus now we've got to the end of this arc.