Quote Originally Posted by plague View Post
man, this military tactics thing is a bit lame.

its the olden days, and the soldiers were either a bunch of savages or a bunch of dickless dudes who had a shield and spear each.

thats what they did back in the day, they just charged in and had a lash. it was worth it alone just for the visual of all those torches going out. that looked dope.

and Queen of Queens Cersei knows that there are still some rules of engagement. there was only like 50 dickless blokes there, if she wiped them out when they went for a chat she knew there were a bunch more coming. chopping off Hot Ramseys head was just a negotiating tactic.......which kind of didnt work.


again, its the olden days, same way people played long ball football back in the day until Griff invented the 4-3-3.
Nah I'm not buying that. That's the biggest thing that annoyed me was that whole battle was stupid as hell.

You have a scene showing all the guys making defense plans. I can't remember exactly who was and wasn't there but roughly Tyrion, Jamie, Varys, Jon, Onion knight. People experienced in battle tactics.
Tyrion a few seasons earlier pretty much successfully devised a battle plan defending King's Landing against Stannis' fleet against the odds. All these guys are pretty cluey.

I can maybe buy the Dothraki. Maybe they just are that dumb and uncontrollable that they would charge in headfirst.
But having siege weapons (trebuchets etc) on the front line of your army? Yeah ok.
Having a big ass castle (you know, those things that people had been building for centuries cause they're really really good at being able to be defended) right behind you, and your enemy is coming to attack you, and deciding that you should come outside to be sporting?
When they did fall back into the castle, not having any means to repel the undead scaling the walls?
The dragons going and looking for night king dude instead of just laying waste to the undead hordes even a little? Spending 5 minutes "mowing the grass" as someone put earlier would have been pretty worthwhile you'd think.

Anyway. Largely agree with the sentiment that it was never gonna live up to people's expectations and will be looked back upon more favourably.