Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20160609000528/@comment-26932251-20160609041219

It is. Every single victory the SC earns comes with a terrible price attached to it. They defeat Annie Leonhart but gain no intel from her and on top of terrible casualties. They defeat the Beast Titan but he manages to escape and after simply mind-blowing casualties and we still don't know the fate of Levi or anyone else out in that area. The colossal, after long last, is finally brought down but only after Squad Hange is nuked basically and Armin dies a horrible death functioning as bait basically. And the armored is also defeated but only by the skin of their teeth.

So yeah, to quote the late Armin Arlert referring to another Pyrhhic victory, "there were too many casualties for celebration to be in order."