User blog comment:Starsong Meadowsweet/Essay:A Study on Villains and Their Many Downfalls/@comment-1085812-20100810141137

Redwall is not unconquerable. It just takes common sense that the leaders don't seem to have. The whole thing would be taken if vermin didn't announce their presence in the area. In the dark, have two score animals grapple hooks to the walls, climb up, kill resistors, open the gates...boom.

And for Ironbeak fearing ghosts, I'll say it like they say in The Heir of Mistmantle..."It beats me how a ghost could hold a real fur and claws baby." let alone attack it.

But that's two different series. But we have to wonder; if you can gather a horde and not have your mental weaknesses exposed, what is going on?