User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Chapter 370: Demons Reincarnated, Predictions./@comment-5598380-20140204040515/@comment-7418318-20140204112419

They made the Magnostadt (Goi) soldiers into cowards with mundane weapons. They were degraded into pretty much a cheer squad for the mages.

In the manga those soldiers weren't cowering in fear all the time (that only began in part when the barrier fell and went full force when the Fanalis started to mow them down) and they were even holding their own against the regular Laem soldiers thanks to their spears doubling as magic weapons, which shot some kind of beam attack, probably fire.