Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27441457-20170608195407/@comment-25322628-20170623004501

The Lord of Silence wrote: I just don't feel that Paradis has a chance in an actual war. Yes they have some smart people, yes they have two Titans (possibly three but I doubt it), but that is all they have. No matter how clever they are with their opening moves, they cannot win an open war. It would be like Japan vs the United States; the Japanese had some military masterminds, plenty of loyal and well trained soldiers, a fully mobilised economy and a decent number of bright engineers. Their campaign opened really well, and then promptly proceeded to fall off as their smaller force was crushed by the weight superior US population and industry. Literally everything Paradis has, Marley has more of it.

War simply will not work in this instance, diplomacy and espionage are their best bets at victory, and I think there are some of them who are smart enough to know that. Then again, Paradis has literally zero experience fighting a war against humans, and it is very different to fighting Titans. If Paradis don't realise this and employ an appropriate stratergy they are dead. End of discussion, dead. Their best bet is to figure out how to make titan serum and play defence, passing the two titans they have on to new candidates, and steadily building up their tech and population.

The future may present conditions that allow for an invasion of the mainland, or perhaps there will be social rights movement that dissipates the negative image surrounding Eldians. If I was the King that's what I'd go for. However, that would leave us with a really boring open ended narrative, so it almost certainly won't happen. Still, I'd certainly be amused if it did. What if they decided to use Historia's royal heritage to unlock Eren's Founding Titan power to unleash the Titans trapped within the Walls? Would you think they have a chance to beat the Marleyans, then?

Of course, that's only if Eren decides to reveal his suspicion about needing Historia.

Or if they decided to have Armin get thrown into the air high enough, he triggers a transformation above Marleyan territory, slams into the ground and causes widespread collateral damage? You'd have a Bomb Titan out of the Colossal Titan.