From my understanding, they are getting blasted by artillery around them and it’ll definitely hit their current position in the next volley. If around them and behind them is unsafe and the current location is unsafe, the only place to avoid the artillery attack is towards them. Hence “retreating forward.”
Yeah but, can't they just retreat back?
The "Evil" is only really wanning because the manga's long filler arc. Evil certainly comes along later.
In the novel, this battle was basically the empire walking into an ambush. Retreating backwards would have led to a chase, Tanya broke the ambush by ambushing them herself, hitting a flank and pulling apart the center that went to reinforce, then wiped out De Lugo's central hq while the defenses there were thin because they were trying to reinforce their flank that exploded just now. Romel finds out the enemy got decapitated and are now confused because they weren't expecting the air mage raid, and breaks through their front line, which causes further confusion allowing the empire to regroup. If they retreated backwards the enemy would have time to reestablish a chain of command and pursue, or it might even happen instinctively as soldiers seeing an enemy running could easily figure out they're supposed to chase. On the other hand when nobody is taking charge yet and another big maneuver happens with they get broken through it becomes a lot more questionable if you're supposed to pursue there or try to regroup, plus the comms would be way more chaotic with soldiers trying to figure out what's happening while getting blown up than when it's quiet. You can figure out easily that you've won a fight if your opponent runs away but it becomes a bit harder to come to that conclusion right after you got knocked on the ground before they start running.
Grimmycoffee: If I confused you with my quote, it was a Google translation of the text in the spoiler image I was replying to. (The …? after the quote was because I was myself confused, wondering why the image was a relevant response.)
I'm a bit confused, do you mean De Lugo or Romel?
He was a fan of wars and war strategies. There are many games about tactics.
To be fair, this is their World War 1. I can see her leaving the Empire and being censored in all documents for WW2, if it would be any similar to our version of it.
Actually (as I interpreted it), she pointed out their cities could be burned down that way, and seemed to want countermeasures.She burned down a city
The enemy was aiming there too - the arc meand it would hit them and behind them. They were aiming for three of the four directions. The safest one was, ironically, towards the enemy.
I did not read his stories yet, but isn't that Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Empire's whole deal too?
I think it did mean De Lugo, and by "decapitated" how the chain of command was massacred until it became Tanya.
Ah, it's nothing about the translation. The link is because I don't know what Tank Desant was, so I'm sure some people like me would like to know.
Woops sorry meant romel there, I'll go correct it
is this a mis-input? a mistake when trying to reply to some other guy but the web screen adjusted and you clicked mine instead?
Not at all, thank you for providing the info about the original! (And no worries… it seemed likely from the context, but I wasn't sure.)
Say it ain't so! You mean American publishers feel the need to "spice up" Military Advance of the Titans as "Attack on Titan" (which makes no d@mn sense), or Sohma's Food Duels (literally food swords) as "Food Wars", or The Eternity You Desire as "Rumbling Hearts"?
For most of those, the authors or the Japanese side chose the English titles themselves.Say it ain't so! You mean American publishers feel the need to "spice up" Military Advance of the Titans as "Attack on Titan" (which makes no d@mn sense), or Sohma's Food Duels (literally food swords) as "Food Wars", or The Eternity You Desire as "Rumbling Hearts"?
I think they were replying to you intentionally. I'm not sure specifically who the "his" in "his stories" is, but it'd either be Romel or Cain (I expect it was Cain). Ciaphas Cain is, as they mentioned, another humorous general in a work of fiction who has a way of succeeding through funny means (I think so at least. I haven't actually read any of the books he's in, which I think is exactly what the other commenter was saying)is this a mis-input? a mistake when trying to reply to some other guy but the web screen adjusted and you clicked mine instead?
i'm talking about general romel who was literally running for his life in this current chapter but you're suddenly like "i didn't read his stories yet". whose stories?
The "Evil" part is not in the original title, in fact it wasn't on mangadex for a long time too, dunno why it's now like that.
Tanks need to turn and slow as heck
is this a mis-input? a mistake when trying to reply to some other guy but the web screen adjusted and you clicked mine instead?
i'm talking about general romel who was literally running for his life in this current chapter but you're suddenly like "i didn't read his stories yet". whose stories?
Pretty much.
