User blog comment:FlinkyTheStoat/Essay: On Villain Dynamics in the Redwall Series/@comment-76.216.50.154-20101106165533/@comment-173.186.155.173-20120125015158

I definately agree with this, multiple times in the books we see "good" characters use tactics that if their enemies used them, the vermin would be labeled a coward. Personally, I see nothing wrong these "cowardly" tactics, and if I were the one leading the horde, I wouldn't hesitate to use tactics that were even more questionable than the ones already used (except torture, leading from behind, and killing civilians). I have to admit, I sometimes think the heroes are just being sore losers 'cause they just can't grasp the fact that war is not fair.