Probably one of my favorite scene from the entire story. I just love it when shows give you the logistics behind the world-building and Isayama does it so intricately it hurts. (TT) I'd do anything to watch AoT for the first time again.
@@yuzat YES! I agree not that I hate that there were humans outside the walls but this concept felt so good to me. Wish the story stayed this way. Humans vs titians.
@@yuzat I agree. I wish the story was more about cosmic horror. The idea of covert outsiders was great, but I really didn't like where the story headed. It became too focused on humans.
@@eradict no human exist beyond paradis island, just watching them struggle to set up a satellite base outside of the wall would be much more entertaining.
@@Ryuguji_drakenyou know it’s called the 57th expedition… and Keith Shadis was the previous commander before Erwin and there were plenty of other commanders before as they had been there for 100 years.
@@spectre9948 I think they did? It was under Shadis back then. Erwin's squad would come back alive while Shadis was the only one from his squad returning
@@wahaadullah1807 It makes perfect sense. The precious or larger groups are in the center whilst smaller teams are more on the outer part of the formation. The smoke colours are also a good detail for warning the othet groups
Even when he was just a captain, Erwin used to bring his squad back alive. Dude is a military genius, great fighter, and politically savvy. No wonder Isayama said he used Captain America as an inspiration for him.
I think Erwin is even better than captain America what's the best quality about Erwin is that he's ready to sacrifice anything for humanity which cap can't do because Erwin is the actual devil
that's the only downside of being a Scout, you're constantly in combat situation. Specially during the plan to capture Annie int eh forest, a lot of Scots died protecting Eren. Again in the city it was mainly Scouts who were fighting Annie until Eren transformed into Titan and beat her up. Garrison and Military Police are the most useless ones, most of them having absolutely no experience whatsoever fighting the titans and relegating it to the Scouts, who end up sacrificing their lives.
@@CoolnCarin5241 Actually the Garrison has some combat experience, although mostly as artillery gunners, but you're absolutely right about the Military Police: a bunch of fat-ass negligent corrupted idiots. At least until the false king is toppled.
@@CoolnCarin5241 The garrison at the start of the series were like the military police as in being lazy as f*ck, however in later episodes the garrison get better, although they still aren't as good as the scouts.
This truly shows how much work Isayama put into AoT. This arguably was the best way to navigate any titan territory...The amount of detail and logic in this anime is insane...
I mean I do agree with the plot convenieces thing especially the order in which new titan shifters were revealed. Every story has some holes at least. Don't know about underutilized characters tho @@ВладиславШаклеин-ч7м
@@ВладиславШаклеин-ч7м one man can only do so much, besides he already planned the story out in its entirety before he even wrote the first chapter. He did said in one of his interview is that Eren is much like a reflection of himself, he is the creator and he is free to write whatever he wants but since he already laid out the entire thing and started working on it for a while he couldn't change it anymore.
Sasha here is so clumsy but later on she will turn out to be one of the elite squad under Levi's direct command and one of the heroes of Shinganshina, along with Mikasa, Armin, Jean, Connie and Eren.
3 years late, but its also spread out so much to keep the scouts from clumping together and attracting more Titans. Titans go to the place with the most people so by spreading out, the scouts a much harder target! Erwin was a GENIUS
This was my favorite phase in attack on titan, the expedition of scouts outside of their territory, and how clueless we were at that time, it just felt to awesome and adventurous
Isayama did not. This formation actually has numerous flaws which are obvious to those who have been trained in tactics and military movements. It's like a C- wedge-and-column. It's actually passable, but clearly fictional.
@@vermusl6316 Well that and they'd need to each be carrying an entire crate of smoke grenades, when they're already carrying two boxes of swords. Also there are 6 distinguishable colors plus black and white, for a total of 8 possible types of messages. Also, they'd need a backup in case of weather...fog, wind, rain, etc. As for what else besides smoke? Signal flags and bugles were historically used at that level of technology. They'd be good for routine messages like "turn left" or "stop", while smoke would still be great for one-time emergency messages like "Holt sh!t! Abnormal Titan here!" The second rank is redundant. The first rank alone can relay messages to the man on point, which is the only position that can steer this formation. There is no planned reaction (QRF) to a black smoke signal. Given how Levi squad is occupied, what we should see is Miche squad going to the source of black smoke and killing the abnormal rather than have the spotter try to do it. (Though perhaps before Eren, Levi squad was the reaction force and they just didn't have QRF for that mission because it was a bait run anyway.) And, while the concept is "spread out as much as possible for scouting distance", the formation is *too* spread out where nobody can support their soldier next to them and the entire Survey Corps can be defeated in detail. And that wall of text you just skipped past is a small fraction of the things anyone who has studied tactics would notice.
Communication technology is good but carrying it is different story, you don’t know if it is light or heavy that you have to place it in a wagon, it is not post modern era where technology is available to you
Many of them were alone in a spot, but where you can see the others and reach them immediately when need to. It's literally the point of the formation.
The veterans were from a distance, same with Mikasa but was probably not shown (cause unnecessary to the story). The whole point of the formation is you're alone but not really cause the others are near.
Joining the Scouts is the true highest honor for anyone inside that wall. Even though people just trash on them and puts military police on top, it's actually the truth. The bravest. And with Erwin, Levi and Hange, I think Marley chose the wrong time to send their warriors.
Knowing that the recruits that join Military Police are once considered as top 10 graduate during their academy period which highly in skills and capabilities are just sad where some of them can contribute to the survey corps strength when venture outside of the walls.
The scouts are elites, military police are nothing but glorified body guards that eat, get fat on the protection from those on the outer walls protecting the mp’s.
Feel free to hate me, WIT did a way better job than Mappa in terms of Aot, never changed my mind for in the slightest after Aot in charge by Mappa for such a long time
@@ChibiNarutosame here. While I appreciate the animators in MAPPA (I don't respect MAPPA itself, they abused their workers) working in a time limit, WiT have done a better job in S1-3. Honestly I'm wondering how polished it would look if MAPPA animators have more years to animate this. From what I heard, they only have 8 months to animate S4 and it took years for WiT to animate S1-S3.
@@weirdart1638 True, but without access to wireless communication and motion detection technology, it's the best thing they had. There's a good reason why the Survey Corps has the highest death count in the army, and before Erwin took command and introduced this formation, it used to be worse.
Its weird that he aslo created a situation like this. Its like you created a problem and a solution. Well that's easy if you created the problem then you already know the solution.
I hope he had a good enough character that he didn’t go risking himself just to kill people when he could. Although maybe my memory’s failing me and he needed to kill him to get out and go to the Female Titan where Armin and Jean were?
that doesn't make any sense he already told annie where eren was. why kill someone in your own squad (when people are going to run through the same position) by the looks of it the guy seemed to be a commanding officer given that the middle consited of recruits and intermediate soldiers. that being said, Jean and armin are seen alone despite also having their own counterparts.
The Long-range Scouting Formation is a genuinely genius example of Erwin Smith's military-tactical mind. As another comment put it, it's a giant human radar! The front-most regiment acts as detection, the signal is then given to the commander via the relay regiment and then navigational changes are distributed to all the remaining squads via the command regiment with the elite squads and supply regiment in the center being protected by the rest of the formation. This makes the most sense because apart from human lives the most valuable assets in the formation is the most skilled and experienced soldiers & cargo (in this case being supplies and of course, Eren.) Logistically you could not get a better formation than this in titan territory and it shows why even as a captain, Erwin's squads usually made it home unscathed. It was also another genius move to disclose any/all information about the purpose of the mission and the location of the Special-Ops squad for Erwin had suspected there was an infiltrator in their ranks. This wasn't an expedition so much as it was one big elaborate trap for the enemy.
It's because tactic won't work against better-armed and better-trained army of Marlay. Erwin's death proof this. You just can't confront an enemy with better weapon even if you have the best tactic in the world.
2:54 Out of all Titans we've seen, this one somehow is my favourite in terms of movement. It's huge, but at the same time really fast by moving on four legs
i wish we got to see more expeditions, this was really badass. I loved watching the OAVS where levi explores the outside, the opening scene of attack on titan, and the expeditions in season 1, 2, and 3. i just wish we had more focus on the actual expeditions to the objective or even the less story focused missions. more lore to the scouts
Honestly, i like the way WIT studio made the background of this anime. But, i prefer Mappa for the foreground or the way they made the character face. If they could work together, i believe it would be beyond the word of masterpiece.
So for anyone who’s not sure what Erwin’s plan was here’s the step by step starting with his initial theories **forming the plan** Eren is a human who can turn into a Titan. Conclusion? Humans can turn into titans If humans can turn into Titans have there been any other titan shifters? We’ve had reports of how the colossal Titan appears in similar fashion to Eren’s Titan. Conclusion? the colossal and by extension the armored Titans are humans If the colossal and armored titans are humans who are they? Moreover why didn’t they breach wall Rose? Conclusion?they were present to see Eren’s arrival and likely apart of the military If they were apart of the military then who? They couldn’t have been present before the walls were breached. Conclusion: they are hiding amongst the 104th cadets This leads into **the plan itself** Step 1: going off the initial hypothesis that the titans are 104tb cadets he sets up a “honey pot.” (Or a tempting target that is secretly a trap) During the initiation ceremony note how he sets up Eren, the upcoming mission, and the basement. Going out of his way to divulge information. He’s baiting the warriors to attack Step 2: narrow the potential suspects. Erwin goes out of his way to talk up about how dangerous joining the scouts is and how likely you are to die. This scares away majority of people. Those that remain are his pool of suspects as the titans would remain in order to capture Eren regardless of the personal danger. Step 3: amongst the 104th cadets spread them out across the formation and give each of them a different position for Eren to be present. The goal being to bait the enemy to attack the section Eren is stated to be present Tell Cadet A that Eren is in section 8, Cadet B section 6 and Cadet C section 12. If the enemy attacks Section 6 Cadet B is the spy And we see this play out note: how when the female Titan attacks it attacks from the Right Flank and as Reiner, Armin, and Jaen talk they each say Eren is in a different section but Reiner says “Wait I thought Eren was in the RIGHT FLANK.” And just like that Erwin’s gambit has been successful. Any cadet who was told Eren was on the right flank is now a suspect Most notably: Reiner and Berthold Note how Jaen who had Eren on the left flank is removed from suspicion and Armin who discovers Annie is as well but by Step 3 Erwin has been successful. And narrowed down his suspects and now simply needs to weed out the rest. Those who are still under suspicion are separated from the rest of the scouts and sent to the isolated outpost where we see them in the start of Season 2
Man, going back it's even crazier when you realize the three dimmensoinal game of chess Erwin was playing against the Marley Warriors, and how this was one huge trap meant to lure out a shifter and expose other agents with the false information he gave to different groups in the formation.
@@timothybasalo4038 If I'm not mistaken, this was supposed to originally be a small skirmish to train for the Shinganshina operation, if I'm not mistaken But Erwin's plan was to capture a titan. How he knew that the female Titan would appear? I have no idea
@@timothybasalo4038 Erwin already knew there were traitors (possibly titan shifters) among them. During his requirement speech, he purposely mentioned about Eren’s basement and their plan to reclaim Shiganshina in order to lure the traitors into following them in the expedition. If I’m not mistaken... Reiner, Berthold, and Annie were all supposed to go to the Military Police to get closer to the King. Eren’s appearance as a titan took them by surprise and Erwin’s revelation that the answer to the titans’ mystery can be answered by going to Eren’s basement forced Reiner and Berthold to join the Survey Corps.
@@timothybasalo4038 erwin hypothesized there were spies after the first colossal titan appearance by getting inside the destroyed wall, he asked everyone who joined after that time period a weird question and if they answered correctly, they would be in on the capture attempt
Earlier seasons with this colour contrast felt so dark. Not saying current is bad it works perfectly with the current story just the old storyline works better with dark colours
@@madara_ackermantrue but his age nerfs him bad Erwin already knew the truth of the world and his own government he was serving years before armin was born
This was peak Attack on Titan. So much better than what's being presented now. Realistic tactics that work against insurmountable odds. Fantastic character interactions and leadership. Seeing all the strongest fighters in the AoT universe working together was when this show was at its best. I wish they would go back to this instead of the time traveling and founding titan bullshit
It's not time traveling, its much more intricate than that. S1 aot is good, but the series is considered a masterpiece because of everything that came after
i would say this , the plan for retaking shinganshina and the showcasing of the files of the warriors are my top 3 scenes in aot of when they do an explanation
(1:45) Looking at birds will never be the same when re-watching AOT. 🕊💀 Edit: After making this comment, I immediately noticed that a red flare was fired, in the same direction Armin was looking, RIGHT AFTER the two birds flew off. I'm speculating that that's Future Eren in the afterlife watching over Armin from the past, and after watching the ending, I can never trust Hajime Isayama again. 😭
A bit late but I love the fact that they were given false maps that indicate different positions from the og plan. It made it easier to find the spies slash shifters amongs the regiment
It’s kinda sad thinking that by the end of season 3 of all of these scouts only 9 remained. By that point nearly all of them had given their lives and……. their hearts.
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Probably one of my favorite scene from the entire story. I just love it when shows give you the logistics behind the world-building and Isayama does it so intricately it hurts. (TT) I'd do anything to watch AoT for the first time again.
same here man, I really wish the plot kept this sort of direction with the survey corps actually having to take back humanity's territory
@@yuzat YES! I agree not that I hate that there were humans outside the walls but this concept felt so good to me. Wish the story stayed this way. Humans vs titians.
Yeah this is definitely my fave scene. IMO season 1 is the best.
@@yuzat I agree. I wish the story was more about cosmic horror. The idea of covert outsiders was great, but I really didn't like where the story headed. It became too focused on humans.
@@eradict no human exist beyond paradis island, just watching them struggle to set up a satellite base outside of the wall would be much more entertaining.
Basically the formation is a big giant human radar. Its brilliant!
Exactly.
Of course! Its Commander Erwin who created it!
@@jennypinkvalley4714 you mean isayama sensei?
@@ivancalvin4213 Never heard of em.
@@rizux3549 Same
Hard to believe that before Erwin came along, the scouts really just went outside the walls all huddled together and fought titans head-on.
And before they had their break away box cutter swords they had daggers
They didn’t
Na they didn't even have the metal to pierce titan skin, or even odm gear, nah they didn't even have any information of the weakness of the titan
@@Ryuguji_drakenyou know it’s called the 57th expedition… and Keith Shadis was the previous commander before Erwin and there were plenty of other commanders before as they had been there for 100 years.
@@spectre9948 I think they did? It was under Shadis back then. Erwin's squad would come back alive while Shadis was the only one from his squad returning
The f*cking detail that Isayama put into the formation
WIT* too
What's that detail??
@@wahaadullah1807 It makes perfect sense. The precious or larger groups are in the center whilst smaller teams are more on the outer part of the formation. The smoke colours are also a good detail for warning the othet groups
Reminds me of Japanese defensive strategy in WW2 very organized and tactically oriented
Yea
Even when he was just a captain, Erwin used to bring his squad back alive. Dude is a military genius, great fighter, and politically savvy. No wonder Isayama said he used Captain America as an inspiration for him.
Both Cap and Erwin are great leaders and give great speeches. I didn't know he was the inspiration damn that's cool
I think Erwin is even better than captain America what's the best quality about Erwin is that he's ready to sacrifice anything for humanity which cap can't do because Erwin is the actual devil
He used Ozymandiaz as inspiration for Erwin and Rorschach for Levi
Was he the captain? Wasn't he just another Squad Leader?
Because he was... special.
This is a lot of scouts... hard to believe that there were this many scouts before the attack on Wall Maria
that's the only downside of being a Scout, you're constantly in combat situation. Specially during the plan to capture Annie int eh forest, a lot of Scots died protecting Eren. Again in the city it was mainly Scouts who were fighting Annie until Eren transformed into Titan and beat her up. Garrison and Military Police are the most useless ones, most of them having absolutely no experience whatsoever fighting the titans and relegating it to the Scouts, who end up sacrificing their lives.
@@CoolnCarin5241 Actually the Garrison has some combat experience, although mostly as artillery gunners, but you're absolutely right about the Military Police: a bunch of fat-ass negligent corrupted idiots. At least until the false king is toppled.
and some of them were actually elites too. they were pretty good with 3dmg. just God unlucky that they died.
@@CoolnCarin5241 The garrison at the start of the series were like the military police as in being lazy as f*ck, however in later episodes the garrison get better, although they still aren't as good as the scouts.
It's just another day for the survey corps
This show even makes horse riding badass
Horse riding IS badass
Lol read about the siege of vienna
But horse riding is badass :?
@@palote07 And then the Winged Hussars arrived!
Have you not seen the riding of the Rohirrim?
Can we just take a minute how basass the guy saving Sasha was, leading the titan away and tricking in into running into a tree
And how scary that spider titan was, like jeez
@@maxinesenior596 when they’re fast they’re fucking terrifying
I think its the same titan that then bites Erwin's arm off
Literal goat, and they just forgot about him in both the manga and the anime. Ain’t even give him a name
@@keepitstraightfrrr the crawling titan
This truly shows how much work Isayama put into AoT. This arguably was the best way to navigate any titan territory...The amount of detail and logic in this anime is insane...
...there is just as much plot conveniences, holes and underutilized characters and concepts, bur people tend to pretend otherwise, lol.
I mean I do agree with the plot convenieces thing especially the order in which new titan shifters were revealed. Every story has some holes at least. Don't know about underutilized characters tho @@ВладиславШаклеин-ч7м
@@ВладиславШаклеин-ч7мno there isn't
@@ВладиславШаклеин-ч7м Care to name a few?
@@ВладиславШаклеин-ч7м one man can only do so much, besides he already planned the story out in its entirety before he even wrote the first chapter. He did said in one of his interview is that Eren is much like a reflection of himself, he is the creator and he is free to write whatever he wants but since he already laid out the entire thing and started working on it for a while he couldn't change it anymore.
Sasha here is so clumsy but later on she will turn out to be one of the elite squad under Levi's direct command and one of the heroes of Shinganshina, along with Mikasa, Armin, Jean, Connie and Eren.
Queen Isabella's Revenge and she dies also
Queen Isabella's Revenge then a little girl shows up in an airship
@@maxiet-ix5pd I know, I read manga.
@@maxiet-ix5pd not cool bro
@@maxiet-ix5pd faze gabu
This is a nice strategy, i'm amazed.
@Alexis Vladimir Ortega and to lessen gas and blades capacity use.....in ova 5 erwin told levi that they need to be conservative outside the walls....
Keep in mind this wasnt made up by an elite team of experienced survey corp leaders, but exactly 1 mangaka. Isayama is incredibly impressive
@@ccc-v-k isayama dint invent this
Jow does this strategy work intheory when there titans are concurrently marked at both sides and in front
Erwin would probably tell them to go back and make the formation somewhere else@@wazup3333
2:17 the distance of the formation shows how easy titans can penetrate but be easily spotted... im amazed honestly
3 years late, but its also spread out so much to keep the scouts from clumping together and attracting more Titans. Titans go to the place with the most people so by spreading out, the scouts a much harder target! Erwin was a GENIUS
@@devinlastnamenotneeded8521it's never too late to reply. I'm the haziqazrie guy lol
SASHA! SASHA! STOP RUNNING IN A STRAIGHT LINE!
WHAT?!
SERPINTENE! SERPINTENE!
Let's show her how it's done!
@@alfredt.5185 RIGHT!
@@gojirawilson3611 uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUGGHHH *titan crashes into tree*
Tbh I zig zagging is worse if your enemy is huge
Damm erwin this is genius
This was my favorite phase in attack on titan, the expedition of scouts outside of their territory, and how clueless we were at that time, it just felt to awesome and adventurous
I wonder if isayama studied military tactics/history when writing this show... this is legit a really good strategy
Isayama did not. This formation actually has numerous flaws which are obvious to those who have been trained in tactics and military movements. It's like a C- wedge-and-column. It's actually passable, but clearly fictional.
But this tatic only works if your enemy is a mindless titan/zombie tho, normal person can see the smoke
@@vermusl6316 Well that and they'd need to each be carrying an entire crate of smoke grenades, when they're already carrying two boxes of swords.
Also there are 6 distinguishable colors plus black and white, for a total of 8 possible types of messages.
Also, they'd need a backup in case of weather...fog, wind, rain, etc.
As for what else besides smoke? Signal flags and bugles were historically used at that level of technology. They'd be good for routine messages like "turn left" or "stop", while smoke would still be great for one-time emergency messages like "Holt sh!t! Abnormal Titan here!"
The second rank is redundant. The first rank alone can relay messages to the man on point, which is the only position that can steer this formation.
There is no planned reaction (QRF) to a black smoke signal. Given how Levi squad is occupied, what we should see is Miche squad going to the source of black smoke and killing the abnormal rather than have the spotter try to do it. (Though perhaps before Eren, Levi squad was the reaction force and they just didn't have QRF for that mission because it was a bait run anyway.)
And, while the concept is "spread out as much as possible for scouting distance", the formation is *too* spread out where nobody can support their soldier next to them and the entire Survey Corps can be defeated in detail.
And that wall of text you just skipped past is a small fraction of the things anyone who has studied tactics would notice.
*Imagine if they had hands on on communication technology.*
Would be much easy and have less wasted munitions for flares and also be more precise with spotting a titan..
Erwin will be yell out hell in his phone!!!!!!
Communication technology is good but carrying it is different story, you don’t know if it is light or heavy that you have to place it in a wagon, it is not post modern era where technology is available to you
Man imagine hearing Erwin tanjo go Shinzo wa sasageyooo over ur Bluetooth earpiece
lol three people could do the scouting equivalent to this formation if they had radio communication
I can't believe the anime has been on for almost 9 years. Can't wait to see how they animate the finale.
Where can u watch it because they stopped uploading it on Netflix?
Mikasa being a whole squad herself 😌💅
The strongest 104th scout graduate is special.
Armin the weak was alone too
@@hibamegherbi6513 he was with two veterans
Many of them were alone in a spot, but where you can see the others and reach them immediately when need to. It's literally the point of the formation.
The veterans were from a distance, same with Mikasa but was probably not shown (cause unnecessary to the story). The whole point of the formation is you're alone but not really cause the others are near.
Joining the Scouts is the true highest honor for anyone inside that wall. Even though people just trash on them and puts military police on top, it's actually the truth. The bravest. And with Erwin, Levi and Hange, I think Marley chose the wrong time to send their warriors.
Knowing that the recruits that join Military Police are once considered as top 10 graduate during their academy period which highly in skills and capabilities are just sad where some of them can contribute to the survey corps strength when venture outside of the walls.
@@Winteraiman can't blame em for not wanting to be eaten
You are a clown, forgotten
Mike too.. He is a captain aswell
The scouts are elites, military police are nothing but glorified body guards that eat, get fat on the protection from those on the outer walls protecting the mp’s.
I love s4 but the art style, music and direction of s1-3 was just amazing
Feel free to hate me, WIT did a way better job than Mappa in terms of Aot, never changed my mind for in the slightest after Aot in charge by Mappa for such a long time
@@ChibiNarutosame here. While I appreciate the animators in MAPPA (I don't respect MAPPA itself, they abused their workers) working in a time limit, WiT have done a better job in S1-3.
Honestly I'm wondering how polished it would look if MAPPA animators have more years to animate this. From what I heard, they only have 8 months to animate S4 and it took years for WiT to animate S1-S3.
Nah music is still good.
Same
I like season 4, but I also agree that in terms of quality WIT was much better
2:06 HEY TEACHER YOU FORGOT ABOUT THE HOMEWORK.
LMFAOOOO
LMAOOOOO
Shitttt😭😭😭
BYEE
LMAO
Literally even extras in this anime are badass as fuck
The good old day of WIT studio masterpiece. Its so amazing.
Erwin as a leader . We will all die with him .that just how charismatic Erwin is
0:01 😭 that repeated SUSUME what a man.
isayama should be a war general...just saying look how genuinely brilliant this plan is
Such a complex strategy that requires precision, communication, and tactic. Yet effective when executed properly.
@@notahamster333 to bad it uses a lot of soldiers which of course is effective in direct combat but to much losses
@@weirdart1638 True, but without access to wireless communication and motion detection technology, it's the best thing they had. There's a good reason why the Survey Corps has the highest death count in the army, and before Erwin took command and introduced this formation, it used to be worse.
Its weird that he aslo created a situation like this. Its like you created a problem and a solution. Well that's easy if you created the problem then you already know the solution.
Theres a manga called Kingdom. Brilliant Strategy right there. You should try reading it.
Hands down my fav arc, shows the powerful leadership of Erwin, the capability of the Scouts, and each character’s capabilities.
This is the genius war formation I have ever seen in my life
I just realized that Reiner probably killed the scout that was with him @1:20 before linking up with Armin and Jean.
1:20 Reiner probably killed that guy when no one was looking
So he can tell annie??
Ykw, that's a good catch. I thought that dude was Bertholdt, but that makes more sense.
I hope he had a good enough character that he didn’t go risking himself just to kill people when he could.
Although maybe my memory’s failing me and he needed to kill him to get out and go to the Female Titan where Armin and Jean were?
thats pretty cold
that doesn't make any sense he already told annie where eren was. why kill someone in your own squad (when people are going to run through the same position) by the looks of it the guy seemed to be a commanding officer given that the middle consited of recruits and intermediate soldiers. that being said, Jean and armin are seen alone despite also having their own counterparts.
The Long-range Scouting Formation is a genuinely genius example of Erwin Smith's military-tactical mind. As another comment put it, it's a giant human radar!
The front-most regiment acts as detection, the signal is then given to the commander via the relay regiment and then navigational changes are distributed to all the remaining squads via the command regiment with the elite squads and supply regiment in the center being protected by the rest of the formation. This makes the most sense because apart from human lives the most valuable assets in the formation is the most skilled and experienced soldiers & cargo (in this case being supplies and of course, Eren.) Logistically you could not get a better formation than this in titan territory and it shows why even as a captain, Erwin's squads usually made it home unscathed.
It was also another genius move to disclose any/all information about the purpose of the mission and the location of the Special-Ops squad for Erwin had suspected there was an infiltrator in their ranks. This wasn't an expedition so much as it was one big elaborate trap for the enemy.
Respect to all of them. Can't believe that only 9 survived from hundreds of them at the end of s3
Nah, the king recruit them
@@eavyeavy2864what do you mean
Erwin was a fucking genius!
I still think S1 has the best pacing & intensity out of all the seasons.
Rip the horses man their the real loss.
Wtf
I went back here because this is where i find Sasha really funny and became my favorite character.. RIP my beloved Sasha
Meat 🍖
Dont get me wrong I loved s4 ,but i kinda miss this tactics the scouts used to have
Bro there fighting humans
Against humans they have to constantly change tactics because the enemy is much better at learning
They kinda have to rely on espionage more when dealing with humans. Regular titan tactics won't do as good.
It's because tactic won't work against better-armed and better-trained army of Marlay.
Erwin's death proof this. You just can't confront an enemy with better weapon even if you have the best tactic in the world.
3:24 was the titan that bit Erwin Smith's arm.
is it really?
@@cryharderlilbrono
I remember watching this scene for the first time thinking this is the coolest thing ever
2:54 Out of all Titans we've seen, this one somehow is my favourite in terms of movement. It's huge, but at the same time really fast by moving on four legs
i wish we got to see more expeditions, this was really badass. I loved watching the OAVS where levi explores the outside, the opening scene of attack on titan, and the expeditions in season 1, 2, and 3. i just wish we had more focus on the actual expeditions to the objective or even the less story focused missions. more lore to the scouts
Back when we don't have any clue about the mystery of Titans. How I miss the thrill and curiosity!
Wish they kept realsing the next seasons watched the first one on Netflix but they stopped which was werid to me
Honestly, i like the way WIT studio made the background of this anime. But, i prefer Mappa for the foreground or the way they made the character face. If they could work together, i believe it would be beyond the word of masterpiece.
it's funny how 11 years passed and he didn't add freaking e to rang, just left it as is
at this point isayama should make an army using us fans and his formation.
So for anyone who’s not sure what Erwin’s plan was here’s the step by step starting with his initial theories
**forming the plan**
Eren is a human who can turn into a Titan. Conclusion? Humans can turn into titans
If humans can turn into Titans have there been any other titan shifters? We’ve had reports of how the colossal Titan appears in similar fashion to Eren’s Titan. Conclusion? the colossal and by extension the armored Titans are humans
If the colossal and armored titans are humans who are they? Moreover why didn’t they breach wall Rose? Conclusion?they were present to see Eren’s arrival and likely apart of the military
If they were apart of the military then who? They couldn’t have been present before the walls were breached. Conclusion: they are hiding amongst the 104th cadets
This leads into
**the plan itself**
Step 1: going off the initial hypothesis that the titans are 104tb cadets he sets up a “honey pot.” (Or a tempting target that is secretly a trap)
During the initiation ceremony note how he sets up Eren, the upcoming mission, and the basement. Going out of his way to divulge information. He’s baiting the warriors to attack
Step 2: narrow the potential suspects. Erwin goes out of his way to talk up about how dangerous joining the scouts is and how likely you are to die. This scares away majority of people.
Those that remain are his pool of suspects as the titans would remain in order to capture Eren regardless of the personal danger.
Step 3: amongst the 104th cadets spread them out across the formation and give each of them a different position for Eren to be present.
The goal being to bait the enemy to attack the section Eren is stated to be present
Tell Cadet A that Eren is in section 8, Cadet B section 6 and Cadet C section 12. If the enemy attacks Section 6 Cadet B is the spy
And we see this play out note: how when the female Titan attacks it attacks from the Right Flank and as Reiner, Armin, and Jaen talk they each say Eren is in a different section but Reiner says
“Wait I thought Eren was in the RIGHT FLANK.”
And just like that Erwin’s gambit has been successful. Any cadet who was told Eren was on the right flank is now a suspect
Most notably: Reiner and Berthold
Note how Jaen who had Eren on the left flank is removed from suspicion and Armin who discovers Annie is as well but by Step 3 Erwin has been successful. And narrowed down his suspects and now simply needs to weed out the rest.
Those who are still under suspicion are separated from the rest of the scouts and sent to the isolated outpost where we see them in the start of Season 2
This is why only smart people can write smart characters. A character can only be as smart as the one writing them and their actions.
Damnnn
@skepabbas9400 that's why in other shows they would just make the other characters dumb😂
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3:24 the titans like oh oh ur going over there and i eh was going there too! heheh ehhh...
:P Honestly tho!
Man, going back it's even crazier when you realize the three dimmensoinal game of chess Erwin was playing against the Marley Warriors, and how this was one huge trap meant to lure out a shifter and expose other agents with the false information he gave to different groups in the formation.
Commander Erwin is a genius
If this elite guys were alive up until the war comes probably the Marleyans were doomed
It sucks knowing that this plan would’ve been pretty solid if the Female Titan didn’t mess up everything
the actual plan was to lure her out and capture her, not to plug the wall
@@nickcrompton1865 how did they know the existence of female titan? Isnt it this is the very first appearance of it?
@@timothybasalo4038 If I'm not mistaken, this was supposed to originally be a small
skirmish to train for the Shinganshina operation, if I'm not mistaken
But Erwin's plan was to capture a titan. How he knew that the female Titan would appear? I have no idea
@@timothybasalo4038 Erwin already knew there were traitors (possibly titan shifters) among them. During his requirement speech, he purposely mentioned about Eren’s basement and their plan to reclaim Shiganshina in order to lure the traitors into following them in the expedition.
If I’m not mistaken... Reiner, Berthold, and Annie were all supposed to go to the Military Police to get closer to the King. Eren’s appearance as a titan took them by surprise and Erwin’s revelation that the answer to the titans’ mystery can be answered by going to Eren’s basement forced Reiner and Berthold to join the Survey Corps.
@@timothybasalo4038 erwin hypothesized there were spies after the first colossal titan appearance by getting inside the destroyed wall, he asked everyone who joined after that time period a weird question and if they answered correctly, they would be in on the capture attempt
good old days when it was just about killing titans or getting killed by them
I stopped watching after that
0:16 oluo looks so cute🤣🤣🤣
This was when AoT was peak.
Sasha cheated death so many times only to meet her end when they were feeling relieved after a well earned victory.
0:08 ここにペトラがいるのがもう涙です
Erwin is the most badass character in this show.
i told you this before I"m always one step ahead.
In short! A giant fcking human radar
remember when things were this simple and they just explored and fought titans :D
Show this scene to everyone who says JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run won't get an anime because there's too many horses.
この壁外調査の目的が知性巨人を炙り出すためというエルヴィンの考えが素晴らしい
I loved how the formation was presented
0:45 i relate to that dude so much
Damn it hurts
@1:08 you can see about half the scouts took part in this expedition. I could roughly count 110 individual horses and say 2 people per horse carriage
You counted one by one?!
@@RidhoFebrian-lol
I miss this part of AoT, just strategy against an overwhelming obscure enemy
this anime should be named by Epic x Epic
Mikasa is the only one 1:12
Earlier seasons with this colour contrast felt so dark. Not saying current is bad it works perfectly with the current story
just the old storyline works better with dark colours
If aot can animate horses im sure jojo part 7 can be done
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Great tactics.
Moreover, Erwin tried to find a spy by hiding where Eren was.
Amazing.
They really made air tight with all that suspense,titans were hella scary back then
people forget that erwin invented this when they're trying to compare him to armin lol
Armin has a shitload of feats too
@@madara_ackermantrue but his age nerfs him bad Erwin already knew the truth of the world and his own government he was serving years before armin was born
Erwin is probably the only person that can convince me to ride to certain death
この頃が一番平和だったんだな
If this Scout Veterans are the ones who fight in the battle of Shiganshina to reclaim the wall, the casualties will be lessen. My thoughts
scout veterans are long dead what are u talking about
All of them died , that's why later on the season you see levi comment how the scouts quality has extremely degraded
@@huunter006 yeah I know they are long dead since season 2 including the levi squad and Mike friend of Erwin that is why i said the word "IF" got it?
@@huunter006some of them actually is still alive but they retired after this expedition because of how dangerous the situation is.
@@vertex6586really who retired
the levi squad will always be badass
This was peak Attack on Titan. So much better than what's being presented now. Realistic tactics that work against insurmountable odds. Fantastic character interactions and leadership. Seeing all the strongest fighters in the AoT universe working together was when this show was at its best. I wish they would go back to this instead of the time traveling and founding titan bullshit
It's not time traveling, its much more intricate than that. S1 aot is good, but the series is considered a masterpiece because of everything that came after
Music at 2:57 reminds me of bourne movies. Specially during the chases
This shows Steel Ball Run is still possible
maybe
Hopefully.. Another reason why Stone Ocean should be hyped on NETFL1X
If Wit animate jojo its possible
i would say this , the plan for retaking shinganshina and the showcasing of the files of the warriors are my top 3 scenes in aot of when they do an explanation
Holy sht 8 years ago.. I realized I am getting old damn.
(1:45) Looking at birds will never be the same when re-watching AOT. 🕊💀
Edit: After making this comment, I immediately noticed that a red flare was fired, in the same direction Armin was looking, RIGHT AFTER the two birds flew off. I'm speculating that that's Future Eren in the afterlife watching over Armin from the past, and after watching the ending, I can never trust Hajime Isayama again. 😭
I really wish we got more time with the veteran Survey Corps. They were all so badass but that was the point of killing them unfortunately.
Goddammit
That fucking abnormal scared me first time I saw it
😂😂😂😂😂
Man, I miss these cool strategy scenes. There's none of these in s4.
How would there be, you can't exactly ride horse and shot flares across Marley
time flies😂 still go to japan no prob guys friends is fine.
やっぱり昔の古参の兵士がいる調査兵団がかっこいは
A bit late but I love the fact that they were given false maps that indicate different positions from the og plan. It made it easier to find the spies slash shifters amongs the regiment
Erwin was too damn smart.
God it would suck to be colorblind in this scenario
11 Years
How are people not talking about Mikasa being a squad herself?
These are the types of details that I live about aot. Despite the Titans shifting race and all, the world is so……believable.
It’s kinda sad thinking that by the end of season 3 of all of these scouts only 9 remained. By that point nearly all of them had given their lives and……. their hearts.
1:12 mikasa solo
full gallop for days, i want that horse in horse race
この頃の巨人の作風好き