Board Thread:Theories/@comment-27823881-20180729145535/@comment-36307699-20180801123517

Freeman1378 wrote: Warrior655 wrote: Freeman1378 wrote:

Kowys wrote: I don't know why everyone is discussing this matter as if Paradis has even the slightest chance without the help of the Wall Titans.

They are up against the entire WORLD, who also happen to be a century ahead of them in terms of technology. They have guns capable of destroying Titans in a single hit. Their 3 measly Titan shifters aren't going to do much if the world's armies converges on them.

Imagine if Madagascar today decided to wage war on the entire world. Laughable, right? - I don't think Paradis have to fear the Anti-Titan Artillery (aerial vehicles are the main threat to Paradis currently) that much as that tech had a pretty weak showing in Liberio as the 3DMG + Thunder Spears made swiss cheese out of them pretty quickly plus they don't have anyway of making them mobile enough to evade the corps (no armoured trains on Paradis). The only person who has to fear the Artillery is Zeke as his titan's hardening would not be enough to survive the impact and the beast is not fast while Armin could use the CT's steam to blow the artillery away (Bert does this to Mikasa's thunder spears) and the WHT has little to fear due to borrowing underground and being able to reply with spears and crossbow bolts as long as Eren doesn't tire himself out too quickly. Also Marley would have to set up the artillery as they go along similar to USA's island hopping operations (these operations were long and time consuming because of this) in WW2 so Paradis could use traps and hit and runs with the 3DMG to deal with artillery while it's being set up.

- The Wall Titans are obviously the A Bomb equivalent of this universe (The ultimate trump card) and Paradis's guarenteed way of winning (with the Wall Titans there chance of victory is 98% at least) but the final fight would be pretty dull if Zeke and Eren just walked up to each other and high fived in Titan form to end the conflict in 3 nano seconds (This is why the Corps is at each other's throats right now to prevent the easy win from a narrative perspective and Zeke is probably going to triple cross to ensure things get complicated) while thinking of how Paradis could use more conventional tactics to secure a hard fought victory or stall Marley makes the final conflict more interesting to me (vs the simplistic WT victory) even if the odds are not stacked in their favour due to simple attrition warfare. Unless they install those anti-titan weapons on pieks' cartman titan. That is one possibility. That was my intial thoughts on how Pieck would be used in this conflict (as a direct counter to Zeke specifically, she would be outfitted with an Anti-Titan platform) but I could see her being used to speed up the set up process for the artillery guns if they intend to use her directly on the battlefield rather than for a sneak attack as her Titan is also excellent for long term engagements and if the battle drags on for weeks or months her ability to carry around artillery and supplies would be incredibly effective for Marley and co. True.