User blog comment:TheCarrotSaysYumYum/FT0 8 - Magnolia is on Fire?/Blue Cat Happy, Review./@comment-24277053-20150221000338/@comment-7418318-20150221002848

I think in this chapter Yury was the most reasonable of them all.

Charging straight into a horde of experienced mages when you only just learned to use magic yourself is a very stupid thing to do, even if Mavis and Walrod take care of the master. They didn't know the enemies numbers or capabilities. Blue Skull could have had an elite squad or something that could have wiped the floor with Yury and Precht just as easily as the Master or they might have put defenses into place after the group's first blunder. There could have been villiagers who might have attacked the future FT members to earn a reward from Blue Skull. There could have been other traps...

So unless they did very extensive reconnaissance that we didn't get to see, it wasn't merely risky but actually foolish to attack them with just two amateur mages, no matter how bad-ass they are. That it worked anyway is more luck than good strategy or tactics.

Not that I blame Mavis. She might be extremely intelligent and perceptive for her age, but she is still inexperienced, so such a blunder is hardly surprising, but calling Yury an idiot for seeing the flaws in this so called strategy is really uncalled for. Coward or uncaring for the villager's fate I could understand (I'd still disagree, but I can understand if others think so), but idiot is definitely wrong.