User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 334: Sin and Sacrifice, Review/@comment-121.54.49.19-20130610103237/@comment-4829046-20130610150354

In proper war scenes, even if the foot soldiers mainly serve as cannon-fodder, they should be able to overwhelm and kill several of the strongest. The strong characters maybe able to kill dozens of them in a row but unless they get outside help or some deus ex machina they will and do die. We are yet to see this apply in Naruto though, since none of the recurring cast were killed by the white zetsu and the Bijuu clones still haven't taken anyone down(I think). And strangely even in One Piece, in the War of Marineford, it was a bit unreasonable. What-ever happened to giving foot-soldiers a chance?