Talk:Landing Castle/@comment-204.75.254.104-20140904004100/@comment-67.52.123.228-20140913194400

That's likely because the Vers doesn't actually HAVE foot soldiers. I mean, they sent Trilliam down in a giant robot rather than a specialized kill team. The vassals of Count Cruhteo were likely just normal castle personnel who were issued hand guns and told to shoot Slaine on sight or 'maybe' capture him if they reasonably could. Think navy shipmen rather than marines.

Slaine on the other hand seems to have considered himself something of a bodyguard to Asseylum even if not officially and my have taken his combat training quite seriously. Considering that he seems to have used the same disarming move the Princess favors to judo throw the guy in the elevator and releave him of his sidearm it may have attained self defense training prior to traveling to mars or something he picked up from the few trully 'Elite' troops of the Martian forces.

I'd still say even a dedicated special forces team would have a hard time wreaking much havoc inside of the castle before they get pinned and taken out. Remember that Slaine was likely intimately aware of Castle Cruhteo's layout and knew exactly where he was going.

This actually make a fair amount of sense. A good and disciplined light infantry force is pretty easy to build up, and cheap as such things as military expenditures go. But they do require a lot of institutional knowledge which the Martian Knights focused on personal battle, strategic weaponry, and super robots really have neglected to provide to their subjects.

After all, Vers pretty much views the terrans as an inferior race unworth of the light of Aldnoah, they had no intention of treating the Terran survivors as anything by chattel slaves who can be suppressed perfectly well with the threat of obliteration. That is, if they didn't just stamp every last Terran out and recolonize from the ground up.