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Bale, simple minded?

This makes no sense. The Alpha Legion was and still is notorious for having highly complex and well thought out plans of battle. Attacking every weak spot in all possible ways all at once and such. however, Bale seems to be a simple minded brute. That would work fine in any other standard chaos legion. You would think that an Alpha Legion commander would at the very LEAST have a grasp on complex, multi-layered tactics... if not skilled proficiency at it. Bale doesn't. He wanted to just go out and fight the Blood Ravens head on. Where the hell is the strategy in that? Whats going on here? Why is a commander of one of the most enigmatic and complex traitor legions so basic? Counciler 04:05, 7 July 2007 (CEST)

Might be so... but this is how he was in the Game as far as I recall. Then again, one could argue that the sorcerer Sindri Myr was the real leader in a way. He was also the one cunning enough to trick Bale and get him killed and thus becoming the Alpha Legion commander for the time being. So the article is correct in that perspective and you are correct in stating that Alpha Legion commanders are smarter than that. Bale was just a puppet for Sindri imho. -- JoeneB, 7 July 2007, 10:44 (CEST).