[@Gate Keeper] That 'South' strategy won't work. Eiswolf is awful in close range, and AA-XOTRY can't move more than two tiles without attacking. Aditionally, Serah's blade sickles are significantly weaker than her actual slash. So her only real target is the tentacle beast. Yeager can pump the squad south full of lead all he wants, it's not going to kill them all at once. I think the beasts have a three tile normal, five tile sprint radius so we should be safe from the one in the east. 

TLDR: Moving south, we can't take out enough targets. We'd still be open for attack.