>we don't know anything about the enemy's numbers except that there are more of them than us

>also we have no intelligence on the structure of their base or their provisions

>we ourselves have only what little food and drink we could buy and carry with us with no good way to restock

>our only advantages are a higher level of individual capability and being on the offensive

>I know, let's sit in the snow for a few days outside the first cave we come across while they chill in their comfy home so that they can steal the initiative from us when we're tired, hungry, and only half of us are awake

It was completely fucking retarded. They didn't even have a way to know whether they'd been successful or not. They were just going to sit there forever until the gobbies zerg rushed them.