Thread:RCM9698/@comment-25132749-20161215190227/@comment-25132749-20161231040341

they can't really change their commanders. the commanders usually stay commanders until they die or retire, it can only pick a commander if does not have one (due to the last commander being killed in combat) and can't get into contact with those higher on the commanded structure who normally assign commanders. and seeing how the people it would normally get it orders from died as Earth and luna were burned by the Melconian Empire during the Last War.

i haven't read the books in a while, so i could be wrong about some stuff.

not only is a bolo aware of what happens inside every compartment of itself, it also has internal defenses as well to stop intruders.

while bolos usually are logical, they have very human emotions, in fact you can say they are more human then the people that created them. heck, calling a bolo cold and calculating is considered to be really insulting by the people that work with them. which makes the fact that a bolo normal dies at the end of the short stories to be rather tragic.

actually i think i might have tatsumi point out the "Military AI should be cold and calculated" thing you mentioned. speaking of which, when Tatsumi finding out out that the tank is sentient and is Mine's foster parent would a very funny moment.

i wonder how Esdeath would react to the bolo, besides trying fight it, though it most likely will curbstomp her (thanks to it hellbore, battlescreens and reaction time) which would shock her army and the empire as a whole.

I just realized the budo's teigu might be useless because of how the bolo battlescreens work which are like shields but they absorb energy weapons fire (turning it into more power for the bolo) and shred projectiles into plasma, though plasma weapons (like a bolo's hellbore) can get through it because it is already plasma.

I think akame is still better off in the manga than the anime because Mine and Tatsumi are still alive so she still has friends she can go back to.