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Originally Posted by Captain Commando

...No more S-class or rogue ninjas available to Madara for whatever reason (not within his reach, not known to him, or unwilling to work with him, etc.). There are many, many possibilities. The one I'm accepting as truth is that Madara simply doesn't deem it necessary to recruit anymore people, considering the tools in his possession.

He does not deem it necessary? one of the main reason Madara is caving to Kabuto's demand to join him is because madara realizes that fighting him would result in weakening his own battle strength. It was also said that the likely reason madara attempted negotiation at the summit was because he was not positive that he could win in a direct confrontation... Madara is NOT in a confident enough position where he would find extra s-class ninjas as "unnecessary"

Even the idea that the missingnin are not willing to work with him does not seem that great of a reason... afterall, most of Akatsuki were manipulated into helping him. He doesn't need these ninjas to actually identify with his plans, all he needs to do is find out what they want, and make a false promise to give them what they want.

You have a good point, but at the same time, it does get annoying to see certain people slam the author when, all of them put together probably couldn't reach 1/5 of Kishimoto's writing ability.

That is one the most common and flawed arguments made to defend poor writing...
One does NOT need to be a great writer to realize weather or not another writer's abilities are good. Creating a story from scratch and analyzing a story are two very different things... a persona can be good at analyzing a story but at the same time not good at coming up with one on their own; creating a story from scratch can take a lot of time and imagination which someone with an analytical mind may not have, but just because they lack the imagination to come up with a story on their own does not mean they are not able to see the many faults that exist in a story... hell they may even have enough imagination on there own to see greater possibilities... and even if you have the imagination to create a story from scratch does not necessarily mean you have enough to make a truly great story

Originally Posted by DeDe

Or found a way to turn the villages against each other to create the war that way. Something a master manipulator would do. This would setup interesting good guy versus good guy fights with Konoha as the focus.

I was thinking something similar when thinking about what Madara COULD have done... really, had madara not taken the nibi and did not attack the 8-tails, he could have made an attempt to manipulate the other sides like Rock and Mist into believe that Akatsuki was working with Cloud... one thing that aids such belief is that in this time when the other nations best weapons are being taken away we also have Cloud who has been continuing a military build up. They might even view the lack of former-cloud ninja as part of a ruse for Cloud to deny involvement. At the same time, Madara could manipulate Cloud into believing that Akatsuki id working with Rock and Mist as they have the past connection and that Rock and mist are just using lies to turn the ninja world against them.... this would all work out to creating a powder keg that could be easily lit

Madara probably could have also spent decades brining the smaller villages under his control so that if he did need a personal army to strike back he could exploit these smaller villages; though this would work best only after the major nations had beaten the crap out of each other... combined the smaller nations might be rather worthwhile in at least taking down one nation, such as kohona