User blog comment:Derax-Pagani/Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry Movie Review/@comment-24102956-20170715065737/@comment-7418318-20170715073254

This so called fourth generation are basically massproduces golems with a DS Lacrima embedded in them.

Individually they don't amount to much, but there are a whole lot of them. Considering that none of the FT mages get's defeated by them despite their numbers, I'd say individually a 4th Gen "DS" is your average disposable fodder soldier of (non-Bacchus) Quatro Cerberus & Co level.

As far as story-role goes they are just a way to keep the FT members that are currently not needed for the story tied down while the story-relevant stuff is going on. More like 0.5th generation if you ask me. -_- Not to mention, how the hell was the Stella Kingdom able to get their hands on hundreds of the super rare Dragon Slayer Lacrima and without anyone noticing? Was the leader able to somehow produce them or a weaker quasi DS Lacrima? Well... we'll never know, since the movie doesn't tell.