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Game of thrones season 8 [contains spoilers]

ferrelhadley said:
Its a good analysis. I think a lot of people have failed to grasp the sheer size of the undead horde and the incredible difficulty in fighting at night without modern optics. Also just how increadibly unwieldy horses are, it takes something like 6 square meters to turn horse, anywhere you need to move horses in any direction other than forward, you are going to take time. That mass coming at you is not going to give you time. Say you order a general retreat with the cavalry behind the infantry (as many though they should be). How many hours is it going to take to get 30 000 horses into Winterfell.

I found it a fun and exciting episode of TV, the reactions afterwards have been silly (other than those who struggled with it visually). People have large cavarly forces completing complex combined manoeuvres in pitch black against a telepathically controlled inhuman force. Good luck with that plan.
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TBF I do wonder how much those tactics were bad because of the writing or because they were trying to suggest something else.

Sansa has been built up for a while now as the Vader to Littlefinger's Obi-Wan, and if you were to pose the question of how she would deal with a twofold problem - not enough supplies for the whole army and having the bulk of the army being made up of Dany's forces - then putting them outside the walls and getting most of Dany's army massacred whilst her forces remain relatively intact inside (at least based on the trailer) might be a good solution to that.
 
agricola said:
TBF I do wonder how much those tactics were bad because of the writing or because they were trying to suggest something else.

Sansa has been built up for a while now as the Vader to Littlefinger's Obi-Wan, and if you were to pose the question of how she would deal with a twofold problem - not enough supplies for the whole army and having the bulk of the army being made up of Dany's forces - then putting them outside the walls and getting most of Dany's army massacred whilst her forces remain relatively intact inside (at least based on the trailer) might be a good solution to that.
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iirc there was a comment in god knows what season about Roose Bolton doing the same when he commanded one of Rob Starks armies - saving his own men and getting other northern houses to take most of the casualties, the devious shit
 
binka said:
iirc there was a comment in god knows what season about Roose Bolton doing the same when he commanded one of Rob Starks armies - saving his own men and getting other northern houses to take most of the casualties, the devious shit
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Ramsay did it at the Battle of the Bastards as well
 
agricola said:
TBF I do wonder how much those tactics were bad because of the writing or because they were trying to suggest something else.

Sansa has been built up for a while now as the Vader to Littlefinger's Obi-Wan, and if you were to pose the question of how she would deal with a twofold problem - not enough supplies for the whole army and having the bulk of the army being made up of Dany's forces - then putting them outside the walls and getting most of Dany's army massacred whilst her forces remain relatively intact inside (at least based on the trailer) might be a good solution to that.
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She's going to need them when the Golden Company shows up...
 
agricola said:
TBF I do wonder how much those tactics were bad because of the writing or because they were trying to suggest something else.

Sansa has been built up for a while now as the Vader to Littlefinger's Obi-Wan, and if you were to pose the question of how she would deal with a twofold problem - not enough supplies for the whole army and having the bulk of the army being made up of Dany's forces - then putting them outside the walls and getting most of Dany's army massacred whilst her forces remain relatively intact inside (at least based on the trailer) might be a good solution to that.
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Littlefinger Obi-Wan?!!!
Do you even Star Wars bro?

To say such a thing on May the fourth too!
You deserve to be cast into the pit of Carkoon, the nesting place of the all-powerful Sarlacc.
 
Just watched 3. Looks like a cholera epidemic in the making.

Haven't read the past 15 pages. Why did the dothraki shout cease fire?
 
agricola said:
TBF I do wonder how much those tactics were bad because of the writing or because they were trying to suggest something else.
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Bad writing. But for me most of the alternative tactics people have been banging on about have been as bad, just for different reasons. The undead army was a lot more like insects than a human army, they could sacrafice themselves to becoming tools like ramps to get over obstacles or to become obstacles for their enemies. And they never tire.

then putting them outside the walls and getting most of Dany's army massacred whilst her forces remain relatively intact inside (at least based on the trailer) might be a good solution to that.
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The Knights of the Vale and the Starks had the flanks. On foot. battleplan2.jpg
 
its a scene or 2 thats leaked and they want paying to release the full ep id avoid the internet if you dont want spoiling
 
Crispy said:
No, there is no subtext. It's just dumb
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It's just drama. Writers were given a budget and a remit to make it exciting fullstop.

To Joe Public it was exciting but even many of them said Catapults... Outside??
 
I'm not nervous this week so am partially expecting this to be the week there's some gut wrenching twist.
 
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