Talk:Vytal Festival Tournament (WoR episode)/@comment-10390252-20151010134054/@comment-5414218-20151011232813

I doubt Ironwood is going to get much more serious than that. If he doesn't do anything to him or, at least, offer anything to Roman in exchange for information, he's not going to get anything by going dairly to Roman's cell to check out if he's in the mood to reveal his secret plans.

Roman giving false info to Ironwood kinda makes sense for Cinder's plan but it requires the general to be dumb enough to buy it or to be manipulated by the terrorist they arrested. If Roman was just there as a distraction it would make more sense. It is a common strategy in chess to use minor pieces to get the enemy's attention and sacrifice them in order to make them fall in your trap. Ironwood is there wasting his time and efforts trying to get anything from Roman when maybe there's nothing to win while Cinder's plan is in motion. I mean if they had to rely on Roman to manipulate Ironwood into doing something stupid, your plan requires the top general of a huge army to be a moron. If your plan requires your opponents to be dumb, then it's not a smart plan.