Shinigami ni Sodaterareta Shoujo wa Shikkoku no Tsurugi wo Mune ni Idaku - Vol. 2 Ch. 8 - Battle In The Wings

[raos044]

The hell has she been doing this whole time?

 

[Ainzell]

@raos044 she's waiting for the chance to attack, well you can see from this chapter how you'd end up if you just charge recklessly like that shitty royalty...

Idk how can a big empire such as this one can make such a blunder by sending inexperienced noble to lead the army...

 

[wankerLin]

Hope the royal dude survived, he's a talented individual after all

 

[Psychronia]

I guess the empire got too big to be uniformly competent.
A moment of silence for not just the enemy general, but every hard-working middle manager being bogged down by an incompetent boss.

....So. When's Olivia gonna kill them all?

 

[AlmondMagnum]

If Olivia's like me, she's pretty much forgotten which side is which and what her job is. It could get pretty dangerous if her assistant doesn't remind her.

 

[BookQueen]

i want to see the mc fight!

 

[Madcat6204]

Generic ugly soldier guys vs more generic ugly soldier guys. I have no idea who's who or why I should care about any of these people. I came here to watch Olivia cheerfully slaughter some fools.

 

[KonegsG]

Heroes always comes late

Well.... In most cases where i played AC those heroes who come late choked their war so....

When can i say "And the Winged Hussars arrived" again...

 

[Eksentrysyti]

I don't think any of us were here for battle tactics explanation (wasn't that much about strategy, mostly just a royal brat thinking he knows shit). We're here to see a little girl strolling through mountains of corpses fields of flowers and smiling with bloodlust with joy.

 

[king01701]

Haaaaa..battle log

 

[TheGodEmperor]

bahhh have to wait another month XD I want more so bad. really enjoy this. Oh well,at least I don't have to wait like I do with Berserk

 

[RNDM1]

This is actually a pretty decent and credible depiction of a large-scale (quasi-)Medieval battle, nobody wearing their damn helmets aside. I'm rather positively surprised. Wonder if the author is a fellow raging nerdmilitary history hobbyist...?

If anything the main flag of disbelief is Olivia's flanking force having reached position on schedule instead of getting tangled up in undergrowth or straight up lost and only arriving after the battle was already decided, as only too often occurred when such maneuvers were attempted IRL. 🤣

@Ainzell Because high birth and connections trump competence in aristocratic class societies, that's why. Premodern (and only too large portions of modern) military history is depressingly rife with socially superior twats overriding or ignoring more competent leaders of lesser status and snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, or just plain wasting whole armies.

Kind of happens when status equaled power, military forces were at least as much private as "national" and there was no organised system for training officers and at least trying to ensure a certain minimum baseline level of leadership competence.

 

[yukinomi]

Bruh I just wanted to see Olivia charging in and killing all em imperials, now I gotta wait even more ;-;

Oh well thanks for the chapter! Can't wait to see a sobbing noble begging for his life in front of the war maiden

 

[4altera]

Spoiler

@Psychronia uh.. In the LN the major who proposed the strategy indeed dead in his last stand against Olivia and that royal brat will also dead.. shot by his own underlings for being too dumb and the HQ agreed it was enemy arrow..

@Wizard_of_Oz I think one of the letdown of this series compared to The Girl Who Ate the Dead God are with the story progress more and more stupid and incompetent general appear in the Empire like their conquest until now is a lie. In the other hand almost all Kingdom's general and top branch are really competent, rational and know their shit like their lose until now is also a lie.

Also How Olivia climb her career until become major general in a little amount of time is too easy. Compared to The Girl who Ate a Dead God is in hard mode then Olivia is in easy mode

Mod Note: Please use spoiler tags when talking about chapter-specific or future events.

 

[justforthelulz]

@DioBrando
Happy Birthday, you magnificent specimen.

 

[introvertchild]

Man that was a whole lot of talking about strategies and tactics, but they sure didn't draw anything to show it to us. Drawing random horses charging without an overview of the battlefield is pretty meaningless. The mangaka needs to read some Kingdom.


@4altera Where's your spoiler tag? Have some decency, JFC

 

[Psychronia]

@4altera Seriously. I never asked for spoilers. Don't be a dick.

 

[midnight2630]

"hiding behind the bushes..."
-wha-what kind of beast is that?
*cute mc and pal appear*

 

[RNDM1]

@midnight2630 TBF cute MC is probably the single scariest thing on the whole continent.

 

[welcome2atlantis]

Having a bad commanding officer harms you more than having a strong enemy.
The grunts should just kill this incompetent commander and be done with it.