Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6493589-20150619172544/@comment-26018514-20150624183606

Christopherweeblingjr wrote: 73.Anon.52 wrote:

You train them as a team because no-one needs to be trained to be an anti-social asshole, and can you imagine the logistics nightmare of a school where it's every student for themselves?

The unit system cuts down on direct reports to faculty, like RA's in college dorms. While hunters themselves may act alone, they still aren't quite spectres where they supersede authority all the time, this means they need to know how to work with what they have... which means working with people.

Individuality is also how you unlock/discover your semblance, the real world methodology does not quite work with Remnants abilities. That's not how it works. Nothing would stop them from interacting OUTSIDE of class. And you say that last bit as though the idea of a teacher or figure of authority doesn't exist. They have yet to be shown working as a team "in class", the only times they seem to act as such is combat training, missions, and dorm life. This is further shown in that they can have separate schedules... they aren't joined at the hip.

Authority figures exist, but look at your idol Fatmanfalling's analysis of the student population of RWBY's class year; 69(which should actually be slightly higher/lower to divide evenly into 4 man teams) and multiply that by 4, that is nearly 300 combat trained students... all of which could be invariably injured as a matter of course, or could potentially injure faculty, then look at how many faculty seem to be present(about 6 named... maybe 3x that as far as teachers, maybe 20-40 more support staff for the kitchens/janitorial staff) teaming up the students into squads of 4 means the staff only have to deal with ~69 students reporting to them as opposed to ~276. It makes it a hell of a lot easier for them, I've been in that kind of college situation, I know.

Christopherweeblingjr wrote:

And the next paragraph loops back to "An Army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap! Ect." And where the fuck was the last part mentioned. The last part is common sense... military training tears down the individual so that they can rebuild them into a soldier, in a world where you have superhuman abilities of varying potency the "tearing down" is a lot harder because some people would require force while others(like Jaune) would immediately die if you tried exposing them to the same difficulties.

A semblance is a "unique" manifestation of the soul... note "unique". You cannot train that, it must be discovered, and further it will affect your fighting style. Pyrrha's style for example includes risks that would be absolute bullshit in real life combat because she makes a point of being hit in a non-critical way so she can prevent further strikes using her semblance, Blake and Yang pull similar shenanigans.