Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161211174540/@comment-25936766-20161218133845

LucasVerBeek wrote: That whole line about proper kingdom defense really angered me. Like lady your freaking defenses those pretty little ATLESIAN Knights and Paladins were part of the reason Vale fell in the first place! How's Atlas' s defenses looking now hmm still rock solid? Cause let me tell you Watts did it once and you can bet he will do it again! Nah, she has a point.

1) Atlas is full of all those soldiers and robots, guarding the border and everything. Vale? Only had 2 puny faceless mooks guarding their border from the army of Grimm. And I'm pretty sure Ironwood would've placed far more there if he could.

2) They were hacked, which is different, and it wasn't any simple hacking. Before they got hacked, they were indeed the ones doing the major protection of civilians.

The only reason Wattson managed to hack them all with that virus was because Cinder infected the CCT with it beforehand so it could jump from there for Roman to plant it in the AKs network. In other words, it worked because they got the CCT first, and there's no reason to believe they could do so again just like that (and doylistically, it would be boring).

3) Let me ask you....where were Vale's defenses before Ironwood brought his army? Where were they after he did? The closest thing we ever saw were Beacon Hunters, and they alone can only manage so much at a time.

The CPWife was right. Vale did not have proper defenses, never did. The best it had was a mountain and the zee, and that simply means the Grimm would come in higher numbers from the remaining open sides. And unlike Atlas, which built an army, providing proper protection, Vale never had anything of the sort. Not even some small turrets.

So, if Vale really believed they could hold a paper shield, and still survive through hell if it ever arrived, they were asking for being wrecked down.