Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180108221508/@comment-25221943-20180113171430

Arshpar wrote: RuneLai wrote: It can't be proven that they didn't bring any back. They had likely the opportunity to do so. Ymir was probably already shipped off to Marley by the time the battle in Shiganshina happened since we don't see her captive anywhere and Reiner was carrying her letter, which meant that neither of them expected Historia and Ymir to meet face to face again. For that assumption to be true, Ymir would have left Paradis before the battle, which means a ship was at the island. If Zeke was sending Mike's gear to Marley, he would have sent it at the same time as Ymir.

Remember training to wear those things is hard, people flunk out because they can't even balance while hanging in them. Zeke wouldn't keep any gear on the island for his own use (Reiner and Bert were equipped for the battle, but Zeke wasn't), so there would be no reason not to send it off with Ymir.

As for training soldiers in Marley, I don't see why they would. Maneuvering gear is made to fight Titans, but Marley is fighting humans. Why would you fly around with a couple of swords when your enemy has machine guns and naval ships capable of coastal bombardment? If you look at Marley's war with the Mid-East Allied Forces, maneuvering gear would have been pretty ineffective. Soldiers weren't concerned about mobility so much as protection and not getting shot. Because ODMG is fast. And also, it is likely that Marley would have improvised and added guns to the ODMG, if they had gotten it. No other country in that world made ODM gear or anything similar to. And Marley is a little bit behind in technology, so we know  they couldn't; and titans were always on Paradis and to combat them, The Walldians needed something and they had a genius inventor create it.

The ODM gear probably can't be attained and created today as there is no use for it unless we want to make wars look more epic