Talk:Iroh (United Forces general)/@comment-174.62.158.220-20130420173143

As cool as his firebending is and that he's voiced by Dante Basco, he is still a terrible general and it needs to be addressed. For one thing he led a naval assault into a besieged city that had a massive amount of supporters with air support. He should've known by now the whole "air superiority" thing since Aerial forces have been around for the past 70 years. I don't mean the planes, nobody could've predicted that. But the Equalist airships were fast and deadly. Fast enough to catch up to a flying bison that had a head start. So it would've made more sense to lead in a fleet of airships against the Equalists. Not sending out any scouts to survey the area in advance makes him look even more incompetent. Mines were used during the Hundred Year War. If he had been smart, he would've unloaded his ground force in the vicinity of the city and taken a skeleton crew with the ships directly into the harbor. That way the Equalists wouldn't have noticed the true invasion. It may not have succeeded, but at least he wouldn't be the sole survivor.