Rick kills when the threat is approved to be real, the Governor kills when there is a potential threat, if it is the Governor in the prison, he would kill all of those prisoners at the first sight, this is the difference

 

They got classicly flanked on that field. Poor discipline. You would have thought that once the firing started they might have got some return fire happening, but the element of surprise is a major advantage.

Obviously the Gov. is a major psychopath. And probably very smart, and brutal. A lethal combination. Most of his followers are just dumb grunts. The Gov can figure things out, like defences, combat tactics, and also technology. Without him his grunt would be scratching in the dirt, so they follow him.

 

I had a real hard time with how easy they took out the soldiers. Most of the things I would have mentioned have been covered. I know if I was there, I would have but a few rounds in the grill of his car as he rolled up.

However, the HMFIC was a Corporal, so maybe the writers wanted us to think that their tactics would be lacking. I know for certain that in most cases that wouldn't happen, but...

 

I'm not military but.... why would the soldiers be creeping around the perimeters and playing out guerilla warfare techniques? In this environment the enemy is not the few remaining humans, it's the horde of walkers.

Notice that they're positioned in a cleared-out field so they can't be ambushed. They didn't consider the need to hide from people, and maybe they were overconfident in thinking any survivors they encountered would be less armed than they were. Of course in hindsight, they were wildly mistaken after encountering the governor.

However it is pretty unrealistic that they didn't get off a single defensive shot in the entire deal.

 

Jnhiuyto59

 

if he lets them soldiers come into his base they might like what they see and 10+ well armed trained soilders can take out 70 people or whatever it was easily

 

Don't forget they also had a helicopter which needs space to land in.

 

This makes most sense to me. And how did they not even shoot back?!!

 

Advanced warning of any herds is the first reason to have scouts that comes to mind. That few extra minutes could save lives.

 

Is that why they're hiding from everyone at the airport?

 

in for the penny, in for the pound

The Gov's hardest core of henchmen (the one's he took to the ambush) had most likely done things like that before. Probably not to that extent, but they were guilty of enough already that a new order of organized and well armed men would have been a threat to them. This fits along side the Hitler's henchmen replies earlier in the thread.

 

If they were worried about his reaction to an uprising, they should gone with the plan and just left him standing there after he shot the first man. They would've just watched him be blown to pieces by all the soldiers and gone back to Woodbury and say he was killed by them.

I think they want to help him, they've got his ideals that anyone with so much power will overthrow them. And they probably also realised they needed their equipment.