i would like to think that the alliance leadership simply miscalculated how prideful they would be or trusted too much in their ability to capture rasthakan alive, because to be fair, the alliance didn’t exactly killed him by putting a sword in his chest, but he just simply abused of his powers, powers that the alliance didn’t know he had.
So, with rasthakan captured they would force the zandalari to surrender.
but as we have seen, that didn’t work so the alliance had to flee.
that still doesn’t change the fact that a land assault was completely unnecesary and stupid,these writters simply suck.