Board Thread:Theories/@comment-30785465-20170716114217/@comment-1327106-20170717024521

I think the technology will be better, but I don't know that it would be enough improvement to stand against Marley. The Thunder Spears came from existing tech suppressed by the Interior Military Police, and we don't know how much they else had or how useful the suppressed technology is. For instance, one of the things they suppressed was a hot air balloon. Great tech, but not going to make a difference against Marley. And the Titan guillotine Hange put together is a very specialized piece of equipment.

The people of the Walls are not used to fighting other people in mass combat. Though they can take tech, they probably lack the strategy to use them effectively since they won't have the history to understand how best to use them.

For instance, Marley knows how to deal with machine gun fire. They had trenches in the Mid-East War. The Walls have never fought machine guns, so even if they had some they stole from Marley, they wouldn't be prepared to use or defend against them effectively (after all, that was one of the big things in the early days of WW1, people not being prepared for the tech).

Also, just because they potentially have battleships now, doesn't mean that they suddenly know how to take care them. Let's say someone gave you a battleship. Just the ship, nothing else. How would you refuel it? How would you replace broken parts? Would you know to steer it? Where would you get a trained crew?

Some of it the Walls might be able to beat out of captured Marleyans, but the logistical aspects (repair and supplies) are finite. They have to use the tech to figure out how it works, and each use would draw on their limited supplies, which cannot be replenished because even if they realize what different parts do, they don't have the factories necessary to replace them. Reverse engineering only takes you so far. They're not going to have the equipment molds for parts or the oil wells, let alone the refineries, to process fuel.

I think at best the Walls will have idea of what their enemy is capable of, but they will still be behind and their implementation of Marlayen tech will be patchwork. Take what they can, discard the rest.