Talk:James Ironwood/@comment-162.197.96.15-20150706055748/@comment-25555436-20150707000315

-The units one sends to clear the area, after the scout units locate the outpost. That's a logical move. Ironwood's plan however, wasn't.

-So it's perfectly okay for Ironwood to waste big chunks of his army in petty things, just because they are robots?

-There's a big problem with those words. The way he spoke them, I can't see how that's what he meant, nor how can you see it that way. The way he worded that whole sentence, it sounded like his plan was sending his army, first, as both the recon and assault forces both, at once. Not send scouts then the army, but send the army as the scouts and do both things at once.

Which, is not a logical, practical move. Let's say this is Age of Empires. I got 4 cannons, 40 musketeers and 20 grenadiers. The logical move would send at least 5 musketeers to the enemy outpost as recon and then the rest to take it down. The unlogical move Ironwood spoke about was, or at least seriously-apparently was, send all those 64 units at once as recon from the get-go.

Such a large number would clear the area quicker, but fail at locating the outpost; the more numbers the easier to spot. Any WF mook could have seen the whole army approaching, and then told Roman, who may well either go to another outpost and delay the plan a bit, or stay hidden for as long as necesary.