Stannis only had 4,000 troops, but they were largely armored knights and men at arms and of course they're led by Stannis.
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Stannis, the master tactician, seems to have brought columns of cavalry to fight in forests as well as on permafrost where the horses can't graze. Though, I guess if you go through the books it's fair to say logistics aren't his strong suit anyway..."In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, Hyperion
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I guess that was my point. 4 thousand horseman could not defeat 25K fighters in the woods. (assuming 1/4 of the 100k were warriors.)It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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The books make it clearer that the wildlings are more of a mob of refugees than an army. Their weapons are mostly wood and stone or old rusty bits of metal, they're starving, and they have nothing that resembles formal training. A well fed and trained force of knights crushes them as easily as ISIS routs the Iraqi army today.John Brown did nothing wrong.
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Calvary usually does horrible in heavy forest. Their main advantage is running people down. In the forest Calvary can't maintain speed and people can hide behind trees to avoid being run down and pick riders off as they pass. It doesn't take much discipline for that. (fear will be enough) But yes, the book did highlight the mob part but that great of a numbers advantage should have been sufficient in the woods that minimize the advantages that Calvary usually has.It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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Originally posted by Felch View PostThe books make it clearer that the wildlings are more of a mob of refugees than an army. Their weapons are mostly wood and stone or old rusty bits of metal, they're starving, and they have nothing that resembles formal training. A well fed and trained force of knights crushes them as easily as ISIS routs the Iraqi army today.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
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I think we lost some of the best characters there.The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland
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You never know. Until you actually see them die, they're not necessarily dead. i.e. the mountain.
We don't see the hound actually die.It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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It's probably safe to assume Charles Dance won't be back, which is a shame. He does play complete bastards so very well.
And top marks to the fight choreographers for the big Hound/She-Hulk *****slap. That was a proper brutal one.The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland
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It was also a scene which wasn't in the books so the tv show writers had a free hand in coming up with the scene.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.
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Originally posted by Felch View PostThe books make it clearer that the wildlings are more of a mob of refugees than an army. Their weapons are mostly wood and stone or old rusty bits of metal, they're starving, and they have nothing that resembles formal training. A well fed and trained force of knights crushes them as easily as ISIS routs the Iraqi army today.
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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.If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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Originally posted by regexcellent View PostYeah the book mentions heavy cavalry with lances on barded horses going up against men with sharpened wooden sticks.It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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