After Hours: The Battle of Winterfell (spoilers obviously)
Added 2019-05-06 13:00:03 +0000 UTCThe Battle of Winterfell episode in Game of Thrones has caused a lot of discussion over tactics, strategy, and the inevitable comparison to various RPGs. I assembled a war council of Tom, Caleb, and Jay B to analyze what went right and what went wrong. Caleb's answers may surprise you!
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I think we can all just accept it is bad writing now
DiploRaptor(Samuel)
2020-10-11 12:18:12 +0000 UTCThis approach was way harder than nitpicking the episode (already covered elsewhere) and way more enjoyable to listen to. Fantastic commentary.
Ken Ringwald
2019-05-07 15:50:14 +0000 UTCidk i'd be feeling pretty cocky after I had one shot a fucking dragon
Ross Payton
2019-05-07 02:56:58 +0000 UTC:O holy shit
Ross Payton
2019-05-07 02:56:14 +0000 UTC“People can’t download copyrighted content if they’re dead!” Headcanon accepted!
Ryan Mannix
2019-05-06 23:11:57 +0000 UTCRoss, your character in Reign was raised by beavers for you "chew" the scenes.
james burns
2019-05-06 18:13:06 +0000 UTCSo yeah, maybe the humans made some bad tactical calls. But the Night King literally had to just do nothing to win. People wanna nitpick tactics, when the whole thing only happened because of a legendary, Agincourt-level strategic botch by the commander of what should have been a completely unstoppable army.
Ethan Cordray
2019-05-06 16:57:59 +0000 UTCYou know what you do with an army like that, against 14th-century tech level humans? Win every single siege ever. The ONLY reason medieval sieges ever failed is because the besieging force had to withdraw due to disease/bad weather, threats to their supply lines, or the arrival of relief armies for the defenders. None of those things apply here. The Night King doesn't need to storm Winterfell and kill Bran. He just needs to wait outside the walls until the humans all starve to death or freeze when they run out of firewood. Which will take, what, probably 2-3 weeks tops -- less if he just uses his weather magic to grind them down with relentless blizzard conditions.
Ethan Cordray
2019-05-06 16:48:43 +0000 UTCHere comes the Medieval geekery. You know who really screwed up the battle ? The Night King. He had insane strategic advantages and just ignored them. He's got an army that doesn't need to eat, drink, or sleep, can't freeze in the weather, and thanks to telepathy or whatever, they have no morale concerns or command-and-control friction.
Ethan Cordray
2019-05-06 16:41:53 +0000 UTC
