User blog comment:Godisme/Bleeding Guitar Blues/@comment-44061-20120607010007/@comment-44061-20120607025235

Ive had many a history lesson on war from civil war, ww1 ww2, vietnam and so forth. I get what your saying but the Gotei 13 isnt built for these kinds of losses. Nor does this much happen this soon in war. They build up to it and those battles are battles but not defining of the entire war in itself. A long bloody war wont work for the gotei 13 when they need the higher ranked people to live in order to fight and if they are the only ones strong enough to fight then are we expecting them to continuously fight with no rest. Also we keep pointing to how dire it has to be for the Royal Guard. These guys are glorified body guards. The biggest issue is they are new characters we all have problems with that, we dont know them, you already see how they forced the new weak guys on us. Secondly we dont know what they can do if its anything, these guys arent in direct combat. In reality thats like someone defeating the military and then sending the secret service off to fight the enemy, hows that gonna turn out. Im not getting why i should be impressed with the royal guard when i have nothing to go on that would lead me to believe that they are gonna be any help.