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He went out against a force all spread out because he wanted a glorious charge or something, lol. The atium is super valuable, allowing men to be practically untouched until it runs out. They had four entrances. 300 men with it... It seems to me the thing to do is to have squads of 20 or even 40 depending on entrance size to fight. This allows squads to move back when tired to rest and a fresh squad to move up. They had to come to them, plus huge bodies would end up creating even narrower confines soon enough. If they ever became too much a nuisance, another squad could be assigned to pull bodies past a certain point down the caverns. It seems to me 300 atium burners would be able to do this for a very long time, probably days before it ran out. Instead elend just rushes out forcing them all to burn it all at a quicker, less efficient pace. Heh

I've been rereading the first two SA books in preparation for RoW, and my thoughts have been very interested in Shardplate. In particular, why haven't they made better tactics to counter them? Everyone focuses on getting shards to break through the plate, but we don't see them focus on the one major weakness it has... the eyeslit. And normally, when there's a weakness, people make a million ways to use that weakness to maximum effect. And my first thoughts on this were throwing a type of powder/liquid/chemical at the shareholder and blind them. It wouldn't be that hard to design something to break on impact and blind the person, even with their technology, and once blinded, a soldier could move in and have a far better chance at killing him. The Shardholder could try to block it, but I don't think he could effect keep powder from spreading and blinding him, and if enough are thrown, he is bounded to get some in his eyes. This or something similar is not suggested anywhere from what I've seen, so what are your thoughts on this?