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Originally Posted by Kha

Well before we begin I'd like to say that Nanoha was right/Nanoha was wrong is getting tired. Let's try and unravel the big picture shall we? As in, how old is the TSAB? How does it work? What's the hierachy like? I'm sure things like this would have great pertinence to a Nanohaverse fanuniverse author like those who populate the FF and OC threads, myself included. Good chatting, and Safe Travels.

But a round up of some issues wouldn't hurt.

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Pre-Mock~Battle-Development

Act 7 - Hotel Mission.

Intel For Nanoha-Fate-Force: The hotel will have an auction, due to the delicate nature of items exchanged and convenience of dealing in lost-logia, smuggling operation are suspected.

Objective 1 is to secure the hotel and protect the hotels guests.	- DONE
Objective 2 is to investigate any dubious activities.	- FAILED

Battle Formation

• Captains are guarding the inside of the building. (Flag Zone)
• Shamal is keeping watch on the roof.
• Rookies are guarding the perimeter close to the building. (Red Zone)
• What's left of the knights are (presumably) patrolling the surrounding area. (Blue Zone)
  To be presumed from episode progress to be a wide span.

Battle Synopsis

• Shamal detects the incoming drones.
• Blue Zone Knights dispatch them.
• The doctor contacts Unknown force.
  Dr-Force is now under their control.
• Drones go into fly-by-wire mode. (hard even for knights)
• Large force is teleported in Red's perimeter. (detected by Caro)
• Some others slip through Vita's attack.
  Most drones now converge on Red perimeter, seamlessly ignoring/dodging Blue's Knights.
• Red perimeter is under heavy assault. Vita is expected as reinforcements.
  (long wait presumed by Tea - short wait in truth)
• Decision to counter force by force - tactics switch from defencive to attack.
  Defensive tactics is presumably training tactics.
• Maneuver Saburu (decoy) x Cross-Fire (trump-card) is decided upon.
• Drones destroyed (but a stray shot flies almost seriously injuring Subaru)
  The shot is among the last fired, to be presumed Subaru was distracted by currently trashed drones.
• Shot stopped by Vita, Tea sent to guard the rear. (+1 Vita Scolding)
• Before or after some of the events above, using the cover of chaos, the smuggled goods are stolen from the hotel.

Battle Analysis

• Blue -- Knights positioned in Blue zone are too far front. They're objective couldn't have been anything but scouting from a military perspective, which considering they're numbers is ridiculous. They fail to stop the assault and to fall back to the Red zone to provide support.
  
  But this is more a planing error. They should have falln back to a closer-to-rookies perimeter in the first place, it would also have been easier to defend and reinforce. The only real failure were how they allowed some drones in their immediate vicinity to get away.
  
  
• Red -- Faced with almost overwhelming force the mission can only be described as a success. The force was destroyed before Vita reinforced them. There was only one operational accident, attributed to Tea.
  
  
• Flag Team -- Failed to assist the Red team in a dire situation, failed to detect smuggling when the situation clearly hinted there was something in the hotel. Failed to stop the stealing of smuggled goods, failure to offer battle coordination and control when it was clearly needed.
  
  From scenes at the ending of the battle we can deduce: failed to get battle ready, failed to disperse and or search the area in any way. Simply put, they TOTALY FAILED in all respects.

Act 8 - Dual-Training.

Analysis
Taking note to past mistakes and her own worth Tea is trying to improve both her abilities and the range of her abilities, in this respect training with Subaru for better team-work and coordination. Presumably it goes well ~

Normal training goes as usual, presumably the rookies are thought how to improve their current abilities and how to perform in a generic formation. Hence each is taught and trained individually and not working with the others. Understandably this, while not forming good-team work between them allows them to progress at their own pace. This does not appear as military standard, also we can presume it's Nanoha's decision. The cons to this range from things like Not teaching them how to surpass each others limitation to Not forming a good bond of trust and understanding of abilities. (the former is bad for planing)

The rookies are presumably only monitored during training as such they're free of anything the rest of the time ~ while still being on call 24/7.

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Mock~Battle

What was expected. -- The trainees were to fight with one of the Commanders, but its more target practice for their training (as in the training given to them by Nanoha & Co) There was no defeat or injure Captain to win ~ they merely were suppose to clash with her.

Analysis

The night before the battle commences Tea & (Subaru convinced by Tea) decide to use their own personal training rather then Nanoha's in the battle. The intention was most likely to impress Nanoha, Subaru's motives are questionable, but Teanna's were most likely to force the training to to new levels. (note - mission accomplished, in a sense)

During the mock-battle they do exactly this.
Nanoha is not pleasantly surprised, and it would appear the observers (Fate and Co) neither.

The strategy employed by Subaru & Teanna can be considered successful, but it is has not directly given them the results they wished for. More-over Nanoha is disappointed.

Tactic Analysis - The tactic basically focuses on utilising as much of their strengths as much as possible. There is only one flaw, and that is the decisive blow. It is so romantic that it's silly, if only Teanna would use the decoy to secure a clear shot to Nanoha's back it would have been perfect. Or preferably to avoid friendly fire, firing from Subaru's left (semi-blank spot for Nanoha) form lower ground to Nanoha, this would have been ideal for a regroup as well.

But one mistake is one two many, as it's enough to get you killed, so Nanoha's accusation of recklessness are justified.

Nanoha

• Failed to stop the situation. (I mean it as in, say: "Stand down Teanna.")
• Enforce military protocol.
• Stop the situation properly.
  Call forth ranks/Give the recruit a reminder of protocol.
• Failed to take precautions for the use of weaponry in the exercise.

Tea

• Failed to recognise military protocol
• Endangered her commanding officer, her partner and herself in a training operation.
• Failed to stand down.
• Failed to follow the proceedings of the training exercise.
• Is guilty of mutiny. Although since Nanoha never gave the order to stand down she is not guilty because for pointing her guns at her ~ but because of her actions outside the training course.

As it stands they are both failures, and should be both dropped out of the military core. But disregarding military standards to the point of Nanoha's imposed level ~ Tea is clearly the one to blame for the Mock~Battle incident.