User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 461: That Perfume is for Somebody, Review./@comment-25111584-20151109053831/@comment-7418318-20151109083244

If all of Ishgar would fight together it would be quite a stretch.

While Makarov was aware of a likely invasion, he didn't tell anyone, so for the rest of the continent this is a total surprise attack. Building a continent-wide alliance would take at least a few hours (more likely day or weeks).

I wouldn't mind if other parts of the continent joined the battle piece by piece, but having them all there for a surprise attack? That wouldn't make sense given the situation.

Regarding Brandish... I like her for goofing off on her own more, but I wouldn't rule the trojan horse theory out just yet. Dimaria and Wahl might be so delighted and making such faces because everything goes according to plan, or they might only know their part of the plan and weren't informed about Brandish's infiltration mission.

Either way it' pretty stupid of Wahl to try to blast the Fairy Tail Guild Hall, considering that they try to capture Fairy Heart, which they must at least stronly suspect to be in that very guild hall. Even if they are sure that it'd survive the blast, digging it out of the ruins is still a huge pain in the ass, probably more so than defeating the Fairy Tail mages directly and then just take it.