Talk:James Ironwood/@comment-162.197.96.15-20150706055748/@comment-24891101-20150706184154

Not seeing a problem. Overwhelming numbers is kinda the backbone of Atlesian doctrine. Throwing robots at a problem is a perfectly sensible solution.

Second things first: The deployment in "Breach" makes sense; containing Grimm is a priority, plus it gives him a chance to demostrate the AK-200. Establishing a perimeter and airdropping combatants onto the source makes sense. Politically, it might not be the smartest move, but militarily it's valid. In that situation, there's no need or room for subtlety or strategy beyond getting units into the field rapidly.

First things second: I again fail to see how this is bad strategy. It's abandoned urban terrain and they know the White Fang is holed up somewhere in there. Sweeping the area for the enemy is again perfectly valid. Presumably they have some degree of intel on their numbers, and so would not deploy more than necessary. But without knowing their location, what else could they do? It was pure chance that RWBY found them. A surgical strike only works if you know where they are. A sweep of Mountain Glenn is therefore perfectly reasonable. Besides, Ironwood's off-the-cuff words are not necessarily indicative of the operational plan that would result. That is, I don't think we can read too much into it.

I will acknowledge that in the case of "Breach", he may have been somewhat overzealous in committing resources, but given that the reasons one should not are generally to not risk more lives than necessary and to have soldiers in reserve for other purposes, it's not necessarily a problem. The first reason is moot, since Atlas is risking few actual lives, and more combatants means a heavier weight of fire on the melee-limited Grimm, meaning more guns means more survivability in general. As to the second, there was no real sign of anything else potentially happening.