Attack on Titan: Shingeki no Kyojin

[Kraco]

they had to keep the formation going and protect the center, if they just ran the whole thing would've collapsed ... thats not how it works, its not "everyone for himself"

What formation, huh? There's no formation exactly because they keep getting themselves killed! The whole idea of the visible plan was to use the scouts to inform the whole formation of the locations of the titans and adjust the movements accordingly. But now they ended up losing all the scouts of one sector and turned blind. Their objective wasn't to kill titans but to reach the target location. That's why the priority should have been to preserve strength to maintain the formation, not thrown everything they had at the abnormal one.

Not everyone single-mindedly eager to follow their path and fight needs to be a blistering idiot like Naruto. He could have been like Black Star. But right now he's back to being a nobody. Even Naruto might be better than a nobody, you know.

[KrayZ33]

What formation, huh? There's no formation exactly because they keep getting themselves killed! The whole idea of the visible plan was to use the scouts to inform the whole formation of the locations of the titans and adjust the movements accordingly. But now they ended up losing all the scouts of one sector and turned blind. Their objective wasn't to kill titans but to reach the target location. That's why the priority should have been to preserve strength to maintain the formation, not thrown everything they had at the abnormal one.
Not everyone single-mindedly eager to follow their path and fight needs to be a blistering idiot like Naruto. He could have been like Black Star. But right now he's back to being a nobody. Even Naruto might be better than a nobody, you know.

Female Titan (and the other abnormal too btw) is faster than them on horses, end of story its fight/delay her or die
wasn't really difficult to understand, since they said that like 20 times, but if that wasn't enough, we've seen it with our own eyes

"we have to stop her now, or she'll be at the center/kill the rookies in no time, HUAAA!"

not to mention that *she* was attacking them when it started...not the other way around
and they weren't even going for the kill anymore, they tried to get her legs to slow her down and escape