@azywrckt
The way I see it, any great plan can fail if carried out by an idiot or luckily evaded by an idiotic move by the other side noone could have foreseen.
Likewise, any idiotic plan can have more success than anyone expect if carried out by someone very intelligent or the other side thinks rationally & logically, thus misunderstanding the whole plan.
Sure, safe & steady are more common and more percentage of wins usually. But sometimes just pure brute force is the easier, quicker or cheaper in terms of life method, especially if the other side thinks in traditional methods or just assumes noone would be foolhardy enough to do something crazy.