Knight's & Magic

[shinta|hikari]

I actually found the way the student knights handled the behemoth to be stupid. If the thing responded to and can get aggrod by range fire (and it did), why the hell were they trying to pummel it with swords? If the goal was to buy time for people to escape/reinforcements to arrive, they should've focused on baiting it and running away (aka kiting), making sure to avoid the direction of its mouth, which could breathe fire.

I also found the knights defending the wall idiotic. Why did they have to fight (aka get massacred)? They barely slowed the thing down. When they slashed the foot and that didn't work, what made them think doing it again and again would do? Retreat is also a part of strategy. Their CO is a friggin' moron.

I don't like how the writer had to dumb everyone down to make the protagonist look even more OP than he already is.

[Kraco]

I actually found the way the student knights handled the behemoth to be stupid. If the thing responded to and can get aggrod by range fire (and it did), why the hell were they trying to pummel it with swords? If the goal was to buy time for people to escape/reinforcements to arrive, they should've focused on baiting it and running away (aka kiting), making sure to avoid the direction of its mouth, which could breathe fire.

They were just students with no battle experience but too much pride and vigor (until people started dying). They also must have thought nothing can stand against their mighty Silhouette Knights. If you have got a sword, you have to try it. It's a pity they didn't have anyone naturally competent among them, although even if there was, they didn't seem like people who would have listened.

I also found the knights defending the wall idiotic. Why did they have to fight (aka get massacred)? They barely slowed the thing down. When they slashed the foot and that didn't work, what made them think doing it again and again would do? Retreat is also a part of strategy. Their CO is a friggin' moron.

They were fools, yeah. Plus I have got a feeling these kind of gigantic monsters are only familiar to them through books. Maybe their great grandfathers once fought something like that, who knows. They didn't know what they were doing, and that moron CO instead of deciding to act approriately for an unknown situation chose to act as if it was a normal situation. Still, I can't blame them for lack of courage, like I said before.

How about not attacking the other eye when it clearly worked the first time? (Turns off brain, enjoys.)

The monster wasn't actually too stupid, so it's possible trying to attack the other eye would have been a suicide. You can surprise someone once, but repeating the same thing is pushing your luck. If you were in a fight and somebody took out one of your eyes, you'd do anything and everything to retain your remaining one. The monster wouldn't have anymore simply relied on its tough skin.