A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[Hauldren Collider]

The Knight's Watch in the books was like 50 dudes, most of them crippled, which is why they could lose to Mance. But a bunch of armored mounted knights against an undisciplined and unequipped refugee army is no contest. Also the Wall has a ton of food stored in it apparently, they haven't shown this in the show yet I think but the Watch basically uses the wall itself as a giant icebox for a metric **** ton of meat and grain and stuff, so they have food to feed stannis' army in the interim.

[regexcellent]

In the books they had something like 600 men left after the big ranging actually.

Also, Stannis has a much more useful thing with him than food, which is money, and he can use that to buy food and have it shipped in.

[rah]

Yeah the book mentions heavy cavalry with lances on barded horses going up against men with sharpened wooden sticks.

On an open plain you are correct that it would be over quickly. But not in a forest. It would have been easy to show the encounter on the plains in front of the wall, which is why I was surprised that they did the extra effort of having the charge strike in the woods.

[Felch]

GoT is run according to Civ2 rules. Forests only give a 50% bonus to defenders. And once the first Warrior unit is destroyed, so are all the other Warrior units in the stack.

It's not like Mance brought any Pikemen.

[Dinner]

In the books they had something like 600 men left after the big ranging actually.

Also, Stannis has a much more useful thing with him than food, which is money, and he can use that to buy food and have it shipped in.

Not in the books. In the books Stannis is broke until about the middle of DwD when he finally meets up with the representative of the Iron Bank. It is different from the TV series because the Iron Bank comes looking for Stannis instead of Stannis coming to beg from the Iron Bank. Basically, Cersei stiffs them so the Iron Bank decides to fund Stannis to get even with Cersei (and maybe get their money back if Stannis wins).

[OzzyKP]

On an open plain you are correct that it would be over quickly. But not in a forest. It would have been easy to show the encounter on the plains in front of the wall, which is why I was surprised that they did the extra effort of having the charge strike in the woods.

They are probably just trying to spare themselves the extra effort of digitally putting in 100,000 people.

[DaShi]

Not in the books. In the books Stannis is broke until about the middle of DwD when he finally meets up with the representative of the Iron Bank. It is different from the TV series because the Iron Bank comes looking for Stannis instead of Stannis coming to beg from the Iron Bank. Basically, Cersei stiffs them so the Iron Bank decides to fund Stannis to get even with Cersei (and maybe get their money back if Stannis wins).

All of Westeros should have a CCC rating. I can't believe the Iron Bank does business with any of them.

[self biased]

All of Westeros should have a CCC rating. I can't believe the Iron Bank does business with any of them.

this is all littlefinger's fault.

[My Wife Hates CIV]

just looking...

[Dinner]

this is all littlefinger's fault.

Technically, it is Robert and Cersei's fault though she's the one who just decided to stop paying the Iron Bank even though everyone told her it wouldn't end well.

[self biased]

Spoiler:

[Dr Strangelove]

Technically, it is Robert and Cersei's fault though she's the one who just decided to stop paying the Iron Bank even though everyone told her it wouldn't end well.

That's what happens when you let a woman run the finances.





I was just fillinf in for Kid.

[Nikolai]

I just heared rumors Emilia Clarke has quit Game of Thrones. Anyone know if this is correct?

[Hauldren Collider]

That would be hilarious.

[Lorizael]

I can't imagine that such a rumor means anything more than that she's negotiating for more money.