You let the enemy invest in trying to beat your defenses, and the defenses were all back to front from my point of view. The way you prepare for a siege is you don’t march your forces out into the middle of the open to fight a numerically superior enemy. But, especially given that they know a massive army is coming, they seemed remarkably unprepared for just how massive it was, and when they would be there.Ħ winners and 6 losers from Game of Thrones’ biggest battle yet Mick Cook We saw, over the last couple of episodes, lots of efforts to fortify Winterfell and a couple feints toward discussion of tactics. It was surprising to me that there was very little effort made to figure out what was going on with the Army of the Dead. The Living, at a superficial level, did about as good as could be expected with commanders who haven’t spent a lot of time leading large forces in the field. How well prepared was the Army of the Living heading into the Battle of Winterfell? Ryan Grauer Our conversation, edited lightly for length and clarity, follows. Winning the Battle of Winterfell then, was a very lucky outcome ( thanks, Arya!) considering how poorly Jon and Dany planned their defense. Granted, it’s hard to come up with a strategy against overwhelming numbers of animated corpses, but even so, that one sucked.- Bear Braumoeller April 29, 2019 Together, they agreed that Jon and Dany’s military tactics were wanting - and in some cases downright horrible. To find out, I called two military experts: Ryan Grauer, an associate professor of international affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, and Mick Cook, an Australian combat veteran who fought in Afghanistan. It left me and others wondering: Couldn’t the Living have set up their defenses so much better? Meanwhile, the Army of the Dead used their overwhelming numerical advantage to bust through the Living’s ranks and ransack Winterfell. And why didn’t Jon or Dany use their dragons to burn more giants and White Walkers? There seemed to be few defenses on the walls of Winterfell. The opening Dothraki charge was ill-advised at best. “The Long Night” was a great episode, but I’m not the only one pointing out that the military strategy and tactics on offer - especially by the Army of the Living - were pretty awful. Game of Thrones’ much-anticipated Battle of Winterfell is over - and all I can say is “whoa.”Īctually, that’s not true. This post contains spoilers regarding the third episode of Game of Thrones ’ eighth season.
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