User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 462: Battlefield, Review./@comment-1153699-20151116161227/@comment-7418318-20151117080445

I don't get why people are so upset over Natsu.

If he was acting immature, he'd just try to smash the entire army, but instead he's going for the enemy leader, which would greatly reduce the number of casualties if successfull.

While it's not applicable to every situation, decapitating the enemy command structure is a time-honed way of battle and very effective if successfull.

Going by himself was a poor choice though.