I haven't said anything on the comic for a while now, but one thing I have to say: "Does Stanley jump to conclusions like he's a grasshopper or what?"

Quite in-character with his dimunitive appearance+arkenhammer, i.e.: he's a big baby!

Being the tool that he is, he does not know anything about strategy and even says that it doesn't matter! His forces destroying the rest of the siege equipment next morning (what Parson probably wanted to do) would still gain GK time, raise it's morale and surprise Ansom. Ansom knows Stanley, and probably knows that a minor setback is all it takes to demoralise him. This loss of personal morale will, as we can see, drive Stanley into formulating some "will of the Titans" excuse to act in a desperate way to fulfill some self-devised ultimate test...

hey... such a rash and unpredictable (strategically insane) action by Stanley might even turn the tide... Not Parson, but Stanley will try (ignorantly) to pull off some kind of Ender's Game