"You always have to return to the classics once in a while. You can't do much else if you don't at least get those right." Nanoha shrugged, clearly enjoying herself regardless of the scenario before her. She had always taught her students similarly: without a strong grounding in the fundamentals, branching out was going to cause more pain than anything.

"And if we're talking about the classics, in a situation like this, the tactic you'll find in field manuals is to slowly sweep forward, using cover to your advantage and engaging the enemy as many small squads. Charge ahead and you'll find yourself in the middle of an entire army, and that's a recipe for failure!" Special forces everywhere basically operated the same way. Isolate and destroy, keeping a low profile for as long as possible and taking out the enemy before even being spotted if possible.

Not that a flying mage who shot bright pink beams was the sort of person who defaulted to subtlety, but it was fun to change things up every so often.