Cole was really beginning to like being in charge. He imagined it must be really cool to just point at a group of enemies and say things like; kill them all and then close to a hundred extremely powerful individuals would go up against a force that was of similar power rank as them, and outnumbered them at least 4 or 5 to 1.
There were a lot blue goblins here after all. Never the less Cole caught them all off guard. The goblins had numbers while the Flame nation had strength. It kept them in check as no one could make any moves without assured mutual destruction.
Then Cole came over and became what would break the tie between both forces. He had the lesser numbers and was considerable strength. But it was not anything that was more than what the Goblins or flame nation soldiers had. In fact he was never even worthy enough to be in a stalemate with them, he should have just been suppressed.