Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140815002519/@comment-11188061-20140815125050

That's the point. If you can have machines fight the war for you - especially since Ironwood seems to believe that the situation is dire, and probably feel the need to conserve every Hunters possible - and minimize human life cost, which mind you is exactly what we're doing now in real life, then why not?

Of course, when it starts to affect the Hunter's position and became that machines are valued more higher than Hunters, thus decreasing the reputation and numbers altogether, it'll be counterproductive, because the machines are basically just a means to stall time for the Hunters to gather strength, not sap it from them.