User blog:Ocomfv/The Worlds Strongest Miliaty Power

I just like to put in a few good words for the Atlas Military.

I am well aware that on a one to one basis the Knights and Paladins are nowhere near a match of Hunters. Yes it takes dozens of Knights to accomplish what one seasoned hunter can do. That is not the point. The knights were designed and built to preserve human life.

Hunters are a valuable asset. It takes years to train them in the basics and probable more years to season in the field. It's been stated Beacon is a 4 year "collage". Ruby skipped 2 years at Signal but was there long enough for to build and learn to use Crescent Rose. So I'm assuming Signal is also 4 years long. That means it takes at least 8 years to train a hunter to a minimum standard. This time and effort means hunters are very valuable and not to be wasted.

The Knights and Paladins on the other hand, now that the R&D is finished, can be rolled of the assembly line as fast as raw materials can be poured in. Ironwood brought what he considered a reasonable force. This consisted of 1 mother ship at least 16 gunships with troop capacity of 10 Knight each. And that doesn't even count the human troops.

The gunships are armed with twin mounted Gatling guns that are capable of precision shooting. Able to kill Grimm quickly and precisely even with friendlys in close quarters.

The Knights jumping from a considerable height landed in good if not close formation and dealt a passible amount of damage to the Grimm. Some of them even went hand to paw as can be seen between Emerald's fight and Oobleck's entrance. With 3 Knights wrestling Grimm, 1 stabbing a Grimm, 1 with what appears a weapon malfunction, and 1 down.

I have no idea why no Paladins were not deployed, maybe WF stole the entire shipment along with the Dust. I do think at the level of Grimm we saw they might have redeemed themselves. Finally fighting Grimm instead of the vastly more powerful hunters.

What My main point is Ironwood and Atlas are going for vast number of quick to build fighters that can be either repaired or recycled. and nobody will miss.

With that part of my rant over (I didn't mean for it to be so long) In my personal opinion in not the lack of firepower, that is made up for by numbers, that concerns me it is Cinder's hacking at the tower.

I know this is probably the loosing side of the argument but I just had to say it.