Youjo Senki Chapter 24 Discussion

THIS IS A MANGA ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS ANYTHING BEYOND THIS CHAPTER.
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Volume 4, Chapter 6:

This chapter seems worse the more I think about it. Tanya essentially falls for the same trap she did earlier. She proposes a new unit concept, and is surprised to find she is asked to command said unit. Carlo Zen doesn't even provide the courtesy of showing Tanya describe her idea before being told to make it a reality.

A point I noticed earlier, but was more glaring in this episode, is what happened to the two other company commanders. I remember them having names, but they seem nowhere to be found. Grantz has assumed a much larger roll, but I don't understand how he became a company commander in a unit that supposed to be full of elite soldiers. I assume he took the company Weiss commanded to allow Weiss to float around.

The Federation's plan is stupid. It accurately describes how fighting turned out in WWII, but it is not a situation that one can just plan to get into. Leningrad and Stalingrad turned into protracted urban fights because the German army was unable to isolate either of those cities. Cities that were isolated did fall, such as Kiev. There is much more I could say, but the afterword makes me feel that Carlo Zen doesn't want this story to drag. He is taking short cuts to speed things up.