Erwin was a retard. "Hey, we know the female titan is Annie. Lets fight her in a fucking crowded city lolol" or "Lets not tell anyone our master plan to capture the female titan and maybe have Eren in Standby in his Titan from so in case shit goes south he can punch things. Naw, lets just not." or "Let Levi be in charge of Eren, the literal worst possible person for the job and never reign him in or insist that he try to build Eren's trust and instead treats him like he's going to kill him the second he looks at something funny" or "Lets have Levi torture the female Titan constantly instead of trying different approaches."
ERWIN, MASTER PLANNER
I think what's funny is that it was mentioned in past chapters that there was another idea of partial rumbling. The idea that the rumbling would be used strategically to destroy specific targets (ex. World's armies gathering in Marley and even Marley itself), cause less civilian deaths, use less wall Titans, shows that Eldians are not to be messed with anymore, and most importantly was a deterrence to hostile nations who would dare to attack Paradis.
The plan was the most logical to begin with as it wouldn't cause less tremendous amount of destruction to what is happening now. It allowed a chance for people within Paradis to modernize itself and also a chance for some diplomacy to other nations.But for some reason as time went on the plan was abandoned by Eren because the world was seen as unforgiving and cruel towards Eldians and everyone wants them dead.
There was simply no need for Eren go commit total genocide as there were other logical options that would have save his home and his friends without destroying everything in the process. But he has to choose the worse one, due to reasons that are hard to believe and we may have to see in future chapters.
Pretty much. As for Titan's becoming outdated, there are ways around that. You could, you know, just fucking cripple the entire continent, steal their tech and send them back into the fucking stone age for a few decades while Paradis builds up its military strength. Like, just wipe out all their fighting forces, have Paradis soldiers come in, steal all their technology, and leave. Blow up their power plants, their industry, their universities. All their equipment. Just fucking cripple them for 50+ years. Make it so it'll take at least a century to catch up to where they actually were.
Force civilians to evacuate cities and just crush all the buildings in them. Destroy infrastructure. With these titans, there are a metric fuckton of ways you can basically cripple Marley for over a century while you advance faster than they do. And even when they catch back up, they're only back at their current levels, so they can't destroy titans easily. There is absolutely no need to kill all of them. You can also just leave the colossal Titans around and just start smashing whatever they're building. Just leave them in the dark ages for a couple of hundred years and when you've got fighter jets and nukes, they've got flintlocks, you can recall the colossal titans and make sure they never develop anything that can hurt you again. It doesn't take a fucking genius to work around a 'don't kill the entire world' plan. And this is one extreme way to do it. Eren can quite easily reset the clock on all of the main continent's technology by strategic targeting, crippling them basically forever so that Paradis overtakes them and makes it impossible for the contient to dominate them. He could also cause division on the mainland itself by destroying farms in one nation but not another, invoking resource scarcity, so Marley is in a constant state of civil war over basic supplies, too busy to deal with Paradis, let alone colossal titans. And these are just BASIC military tactics when you have tactical weapons (Colossal Titans). Would he still be committing war crimes? Yes. Would he cause a lot of casualties? Sure. But its a lot fucking better than pure genocide.
The only reason is because Isayama made everyone on Marley a raging lunatic universally to try and somehow provide the most minimal justification for Eren's plans.
I really want there to be Deus Ex Nukes.
If AoT is going to continue to be a shitty WWII fanfic it might as well just bring 'em out. Why not? It's already completely shattered its world-building over three times. What's another one at this point?
Because they would have used them already? But its not like there's any fucking consistency to this stupid garbage.
This is all just so fucking stupid and needlessly convoluted that I just don't care really who wins anymore.
Yeah, at this point I've honestly checked out. I don't care about any of the characters, who lives or who dies. Eren's plan is mind numblingly retarded and was a waste of several years of 'mystery' while every single character stagnated except for Eren himself. Who I can no longer muster any fucks about since he's so fucking stupid his only plan was genocide.
Great development Isayama, fucking up the one character you focused on and leaving everyone else completely hollow husks with no development. You're really going to hurt me when I literally do not care about any character.