Game of Thrones thread -

Yeah Cercei is in quite an advantigeous position now, just as she had planned.

Seemingly a number of Unsullied have survived based on the Ep.4 teaser, but I think they have virtualy ceased to exist as a force. If we can believe the wikia they numbered around 13k and they were prob all present on the battlefield.

There still should be plenty of Dothraki warriors left .... but back in Meereen and elsewhere.

Dorne has been completly knocked out by Cercei. They don't have a fleet. The Greyjoy fleet was supposed to pick them up so they could join against Cercei but Euron wiped it out and prevented that. Their de-facto ruler Ellaria was captured and is rotting in a prison cell in King's Landing alongside her dead daughter and prob gone mad by now.

The Winterfell folks are in very desperate need of manpower and the prospects of reinforcements from overseas seem very dim especialy with the danger of Euron's fleet intercepting everything.

Meanwhile Cercei can still muster a Lannister army plus allies / vassals.

She has the entire Golden Company fighting for her, which can field over 20k troops.

Not looking too good.
 
Gordus said:
Yeah Cercei is in quite an advantigeous position now, just as she had planned.

Seemingly a number of Unsullied have survived based on the Ep.4 teaser, but I think they have virtualy ceased to exist as a force. If we can believe the wikia they numbered around 13k and they were prob all present on the battlefield.

There still should be plenty of Dothraki warriors left .... but back in Meereen and elsewhere.

Dorne has been completly knocked out by Cercei. They don't have a fleet. The Greyjoy fleet was supposed to pick them up so they could join against Cercei but Euron wiped it out and prevented that. Their de-facto ruler Ellaria was captured and is rotting in a prison cell in King's Landing alongside her dead daughter and prob gone mad by now.

The Winterfell folks are in very desperate need of manpower and the prospects of reinforcements from overseas seem very dim especialy with the danger of Euron's fleet intercepting everything.

Meanwhile Cercei can still muster a Lannister army plus allies / vassals.

She has the entire Golden Company fighting for her, which can field over 20k troops.

Not looking too good.
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Disagree. There are a whole lot of Lords in Dorne that are ready to make war. Dorne had called their banners and are aligned against Cersei. If the show were practical you'd have 30k Dornish spearmen on the march as soon as a raven went. But the show isn't practical. Only one invasion from Dorne has ever come by ship, everything else through the mountains.

But again, the show isn't practical.
 
ThunderHorse said:
Disagree. There are a whole lot of Lords in Dorne that are ready to make war. Dorne had called their banners and are aligned against Cersei. If the show were practical you'd have 30k Dornish spearmen on the march as soon as a raven went. But the show isn't practical. Only one invasion from Dorne has ever come by ship, everything else through the mountains.

But again, the show isn't practical.
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You're right, I forgot Dorne isn't sperated by the sea.
 
Speaking tactics.....

The Battle of Winterfell: A Tactical Analysis

BY NOW WE’RE all familiar with the battle tactics in Game of Thrones: Confront your enemy head on—usually in some nicely arrayed lines—and hack at them until no one’s left alive or someone has won. It’s a tried-and-true method, with little in the way of actual operational depth. And as Sunday night’s Battle of Winterfell showed, it's particularly ineffective against an endless army of the undead. Spoilers ahead, obviously.

As the 82-minute episode opens, the allied forces of the living are ready to make their final stand against the undead forces of the Night King, a paramilitary commando who leads a death cult with a penchant for destroying everything you love. In military terms, the Night King is the center of gravity for the forces of the living: If they kill him, they have a shot at surviving the horde of the undead.
 
That is not true for all battles.

Stannis' two-pronged surprise attack on the Wildlings could be used as counter example. Yes the formations they use are a bit wacky but I think it's a sound strategy to catch the enemy completly off guard and with their pants down like that.

Rob Stark also used similar tactics against greater numbers, and he seemed generaly a decent tactician. I was hoping they'd exploit it more but well, that came to a quick halt lol
 
Gordus said:
That is not true for all battles.

Stannis' two-pronged surprise attack on the Wildlings could be used as counter example. Yes the formations they use are a bit wacky but I think it's a sound strategy to catch the enemy completly off guard and with their pants down like that.

Rob Stark also used similar tactics against greater numbers, and he seemed generaly a decent tactician. I was hoping they'd exploit it more but well, that came to a quick halt lol
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Directed by Alex Graves
 
Jaknight said:
Even I a man who’s military experience consists of video games and paintball knew that was a stupid idea to send them
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What real world experience do you have fighting zombies with dragons? The point is, NONE OF US HAS. Therefore none of us is right. Is there a course at the Naval War College on offensive operations against resurrected dead people? Does anybody in the Air Force know how to pilot a dragon?? Have any of you actually lived in Westeros?

I submit none of you are qualified to question tactical decisions made by GoT characters, their Hollywood screenwriters or the Fat Load who came up with all this shit in the first place.

And, if that isn't enough, keep in mind that they won the fuckin battle, which, I remind you, is sort of important.
 
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Ocoka said:
What real world experience do you have fighting zombies with dragons? The point is, NONE OF US HAS. Therefore none of us is right. Is there a course at the Naval War College on offensive operations against resurrected dead people? Does anybody in the Air Force know how to pilot a dragon?? Have any of you actually lived in Westeros?

I submit none of you are qualified to question tactical decisions made by GoT characters, their Hollywood screenwriters or the Fat Load who came up with all this shit in the first place.

And, if that isn't enough, keep in mind that they won the fuckin battle, which, I remind you, is sort of important.
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Please speak for yourself Sir because as a certified Dragonborn of Skyrim, TW:WH palyer with over 400 confirmed online victories, and well read in a metric ton of fantasy nonsense, I do know perfectly well how to combat Dragons and undead people.
 
Ocoka said:
What real world experience do you have fighting zombies with dragons? The point is, NONE OF US HAS. Therefore none of us is right. Is there a course at the Naval War College on offensive operations against resurrected dead people? Does anybody in the Air Force know how to pilot a dragon?? Have any of you actually lived in Westeros?

I submit none of you are qualified to question tactical decisions made by GoT characters, their Hollywood screenwriters or the Fat Load who came up with all this shit in the first place.

And, if that isn't enough, keep in mind that they won the fuckin battle, which, I remind you, is sort of important.
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I'm going to piggyback on this. First, I want to point out that the Army, not the Air Force, would pilot the Dragons because...The United States Army Air Corps. Second, the Dothraki slaughter one god damn mile away helped them in the long run. That's extra distance they would have to cover when the NK raised everyone from the dead at the end. All those Dothraki would have swarmed the survivors.
 
Late to the party but just watched episode 3. HOLY FUCK. Talk about a God damned blood bath, the body count for main characters is going to get exponentially higher from here on out.

Theon is a stud, Jorrah is a mutha fuggin tank, that one girl who was a Lord was LITERALLY to angry to die after getting bitch slapped into the next postal code. Arya came in like Kobe in game 7, cold as mother fucking ice.

Also fuck you Bran you're useless.
 
SaintKP said:
Late to the party but just watched episode 3. HOLY FUCK. Talk about a God damned blood bath, the body count for main characters is going to get exponentially higher from here on out.

Theon is a stud, Jorrah is a mutha fuggin tank, that one girl who was a Lord was LITERALLY to angry to die after getting bitch slapped into the next postal code.

Also fuck you Bran you're useless.
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You're in that spot where you had the chance for a comeback, but you waited too long so it doesn't count. It's the fucking hump day after last weekend's episode so it's kind of the same thing.
 
GOTWA said:
You're in that spot where you had the chance for a comeback, but you waited too long so it doesn't count. It's the fucking hump day after last weekend's episode so it's kind of the same thing.
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I actually live under a rock, but I'm on vacation this week so I can be relevant this coming episode.
 

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