This is your "Golden" Company

>golden
>looks like tarnished brass

who? what episode was that last mentioned in?

>allowing your weapon to taste dirt before tasting the blood of the enemy

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YOU GOT A REAL ATTITUDE PROBLEM, MCFLY

in the books they were founded by a Blackfyre and have always supported that side of the family. Blackfyres haven't been mentioned in the show i think

The Unsullied in gay colors I see.

That's better than I was expecting besides looking like 50 guys instead of 15k.

it's implied that they were all killed by the blackwood company

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If I remember correctly, they’re called The Golden Company because their word is “Golden”
They never break a contract once they accept it

>200 man
Holy shit imagine if they divide them into tiny groups of 20, that's like 10 groups of 20 man
If all of them are what would one call "good" man, they are unstoppable
How can Dany even compete?

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kek

/ourguys/

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>old man thing he is hot shit because he kicked some ass during his youth
Every road rager ever

But, what about survivors?

He looks like a spanish Habsburg

Didn't Selmy kill the last Blackfyre, at least from the male line

There'll definitely be some.

But Aegon's still alive

Yeah but that implies that theres still female blackfyre,and i think aegon comes from that lineage

he kicks ass as an old man, too

This is your Golden Company bro

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>episode
the absolute state of showfags

>Being elitist about reading bad genre fiction

they look like the unsullied brass colored instead of black and a bit crappier.

really?
Because I think there hasnt been a conflict for the past 20ish (17?) years or so

>What are 200 guys going to do?
You're applying modern definition of company there..
>in medieval armies the term company referred loosely to the body of men accompanying a lord or knight into the field.
no limit on size

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Do you think age matters in a story where fighters dual-wield or successfully fight more than one person at the same time?

every boomer past his late 20s too lmao

They explicitly say the GC is 20k

Terrible uniforms aside, these guys are fucking slobs. Half of them have their heels together, other half have them spread apart. Some have their chins tilted up, others are practically staring at the ground. Some have their chest out, others are slouching. They're completely out of line. And their fucking spears are all over the goddamn place. They look like 3rd day recruits at basic lining up for their first march. Fat weekend re-enactors look better than this.

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what in the fuck is that ugly ass armor

literally CIA pants

>tfw no Landsknecht army

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I prefer the Black Company.

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>those trousers

Holy shit this show went downhill

Is this the first time spears are being used in a battle in the show?

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It's a pity that the guy responsible for clothing got mauled by a Lion in a Safari.

20 good men destroyed Stannis' entire army, so 200 good men, logically, are 10 times more powerful than that

Is that a fucking foam sword and pvc armor?

Unsullied and Lannisters use them too. Everybody and their mother uses spears.

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it's their daily workout routine

Probably

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Isn't it amazing that the budget is so much higher but nearly everything except the cgi is total shit? And even then they are writing out cgi creatures from the plot w/Rhaegal death & Ghost leaving.
Bolton men formed a better Phalanx in BotB than Unsullied against the dead. Kek

forgot how mad i was at this
thanks

>Isn't it amazing that the budget is so much higher but nearly everything except the cgi is total shit? And even then they are writing out cgi creatures from the plot w/Rhaegal death & Ghost leaving.
I guess all the money went into quintupling D&D's cocaine funds

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But the more men you have, the lower the quality of each individual man. Is it even possible to amass 200 good men?

every new costume is a coloured sweater with some plastic "armor" on top
it looks fucking horrendous

None of the budget is going towards armor, that's for damn sure. The fact every TV show and movie uses weird leather armor is certainly because it's easier and cheaper to make that anything remotely realistic.

Where are the people of color (POC)?

she has no money, the Lannisters have the Iron Bank

logically, with consistent writing, there's no way they'd betray that kind of contract.

Wait, no elephant?

I can see at least 2 wahmen lol

That's a Tercio

>Wait, no elephant?
Didn't fit the budget after replenishing the coke supply

Wait, why are there Lannister banners on the wall? Cersei's ruling as a Baratheon isn't she?

Thats a Warhammer Fantasy LARPer

>tfw no pike-and-shot gf

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only a spearwall

this is a tercio
youtube.com/watch?v=4y6agtVxWi8

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it's a Warhammer Fantasy larp, he's gonna whack his plastic kit on other guy's kit so it's gotta be soft.
BTW the red haired guy in the back is probably supposed to be a dwarf.

only whites allowed

Where there's a whip

*crrrack!*

There's a way

I wonder what the TWEEST with the Golden Company will be. How will our expectations be SUBVERTED. I can hardly wait.

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>so we have these city gates, let's meet in open combat

Old Navy - $29.99 [Men's S-XXL]

Cercei feels like she has the upper hand and if last two episodes are anything to go by being aggressive is the right move for her

Aegon outta nowhere

So shoot Drogon, Dany and the ball-less betas while they're all just sitting well within range of your ballistas and archers when you had the chance.

Harry is Aegon

Add it to the list

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How will they ret-con that?

they always have spears.
identical spears.
no pikes for cavalry, no real swords, no maces, no crossbows, no pole-axes
The reason is, budget.
It is bothersome nevertheless. Every army with spears.

They got a new production designer in Season 4

me on the right with the yellow gown

because the other one got eaten by a lion?

boltons had pikes

Nah, a Few Good Men are subject to the same sort of inverse-power law as ninjas and nazgul. If you have more than A Few of them, they stop being that Good.

first time viewer?

Seriously though, I’m colorblind but have these glasses that correct it so ever since getting them I love colors. Sounds dumb I know but colors are so cool! So why the hell is got so bland and brown and grey now?

all cersei has to do is kill drogon and its finished right

This is how the unsullied should fight lorewise

autism

I wonder why there hasn't been an army where everybody double wields swords. Wouldn't that be badass..

Just consume product

why don't they reuse them
why not a line of pikes, two lines of spears, some swordsmen, some axe men specialists, some crossbowmen, and a row of archers.
they have the weapons already custom made for the series, better to reuse the interesting ones and just duplicate the groups of men with greenscreen like they always do.

there's only like 16 unsullied

yeah
swishy swishy

>joins the show as production designer season 4 on wards

>production and costume design quality drops through the floor

hmm

I havent watched 4th episode yet and I havent read the books, but who the fuck is golden company anyway? Who owns them?
They hype them as this ultimate mercenary army that even the king's army cant beat, surely nothing stops a force this strong to just swipe in and takeover the ruler of Westeros is at some point, no?

the thing is by the late medieval period the standard 'everyone has spears or arming swords' thing was pretty much over. Weaponry diversified massively once plate armour became commonplace, but like you say we never see people with poleaxes, halberds, or even larger swords really apart from Longclaw

>Golden company
>Armor is brown

forgot pic

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what still? Why would the bank deal with cersei, she'll never pay them back.

based

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>who the fuck is golden company anyway? Who owns them?
they're a big private army. Their whole shtick is they never renege on a contract, so they're really expensive and Cersei basically looted half the country to pay for them

The raw strength of youth may be spent, but his eyes hold the secrets of a hundred campaigns

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why the fuck doesn't the people rebel already? She blew up the sept, she was highly unpopular before then, how is she still queen?

Literally fucking sweatshirts with print on them.
Anyone remember season 1? Anyone remember when they used to care about armor?

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dont think user, just watch and clap

everything outside of Winterfell + Kings Landing has been completely forgotten about. we are lucky to see dragonstone again.

hell the old lady gemma jackson costume is better than that slut

they cared about armor 1-3, 4 on wards it slides and drops off. DnD also only cared about the books until the red wedding so it shows that they have lost interest in the show.

It's what happens to everything, from film to shows to games:

>the real talent leaves
>usually due to producers not wanting to pay them anymore
>producers think they can get by with what the true talent already created for them
>interns take the place of true talent
>end up fucking everything up with their retarded often "minimalist" (read: low risk/low effort) ideas

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NOT FILMED IN SAME LOCATION, FILMED IN BELFAST STUDIO RATHER THAN DUBROVNIK. WHICH IS WHY THEY CAN ONLY SHOW THE GATE OUTSIDE.

SOLUTION? PHYSICALLY MOVED KL FURTHER INLAND TO NEW TERRAIN AND HOPE NO ONE NOTICES. KL NO LONGER HAS ACCESS TO BLACKWATER BAY AND IT NO LONGER SITS ON THE COAST.

FUCK D&D

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>tfw no Landsknecht gf

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THIS IS KINGS LANDING OF THE PREVIOUS SEASONS.

D&D ARE FUCKING SCUM.
THE POST PRODUCTION TEAM ARE ABSOLUTE SHIT.

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Why didn't they just do this at the Battle against the dead?

>Winter is coming
>Ice caps expand
>Sea levels fall

Who's the chad on the horse?

There is no full plate armour in the tv series, really. No need for poleaxes or two handers in general, everybody wears some shitty armour which seems to be penetrated by anything really.

this was the fuck up, though. this one scene here. the last episode clearly takes place outside the mud gate.

user come on, that is such a grasp at straws. that is such a head canon fan fic excuse. regardless if this makes any sense, the fact is its never established in the show.

>spending more thought into the setting than dabid
>trying to rationalizing away hack writing

>reeeee why couldn't this one man fight two dozen people by himself reeeeee

it would actually make sense if it started that way but armor advanced over the course of the wars. of course it's the exact opposite

Holy shit
That's disgusting.
This entire season is nothing but laziness from beginning to end.
Biggest season yet!
>downgrades size of locations to just 3
>only film in 2 locations instead of the usual 8 or even 9
>Budget cuts across the board.

My thoughts exactly

When Strickland first appeared on screen, I noticed he looked kinda goofy but couldn't put my finger on it at first. It's those stupid fucking pants top kek

IT'S.......CLIMATE CHANGE!!!!!!!!!
>dramatic music plays

If you aren't joking, you're the reason GoT sucks.

Did they have to pay the actors way too much in later seasons or something?

This is way too clever for Dabid.

Explain to me who this bitch is, because if she's responsible for them degenerating into plastic and PVC armor after season 4 then she needs to be ejected into space to be dissolved by cosmic radiation

Kingsguard and Night's Watch both get fucked by the desaturation and muddying of everything in the show. There's barely a difference between Stark grey and Watch black. Kingsguard looks like brass or something half the time rather than white.

They looks better than the Unsullied.

Jorah had full plate that did fuck all against a dagger being slammed into it by a zombie, yet somehow stopped a Dothraki attack.

>Spearmanii for a siege battle
>LaughingDismoutedFeudalKnights.png

>All of these lazy shit
>just so D&D can play the subversion game with Ryan Johnson on Star Wars
what a bunch of hacks. I'm avoiding whatever these guys are touching from now on

They look pretty cool. You guys should have some sex.

Maybe the real White Walkers was the CO2 we produced along the way

The mudgate is on a river. There is no fucking river in this bullshit new KL layout and Terrain change. They've completely moved the city inland for Season 8 and hoping no one notices why everything looks different compared to previous seasons.

The gate Dany is at is the main gate to city and its the same gate where the GC are in that screenshot.
It's pure laziness. Don't defend them for this travesty of filmmaking.

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>altright
nice one user

I absolutely do not understand why they changed the Kingsguard armor. Did they lose it? Did the actors get fat? Was the budget for the Museum Wax to keep it from rusting too high/too much effort?

Yes. The inherent problem with long running shows is that the main cast can name their price.

because the Boltons used them. You don't want to become associated with them by using their battle tactics, do you?

wtf wasn't KL surrounded by water with a port on either side in previous seasons? The Red Keep even had a small pier for rowing boats to take people out into the bay such as when Jaime returned from Dorne.
That's impossible with that layout. I skip the opening sequence so I haven't seen it.

>mace just wearing a sweatshirt under his armor
ahhaha oh wow

>muh baddies must have black armor
don't expect a reasonable explanation besides that

she joined the show as production designer in season 4, right when the decline began.

plot twist: they were all being sarcastic and just wanted that demented old fuck to shut up.

There are cosplayers who have better outfits. The Unsullied at least had that shitty boiled leather. This is straight up plastic helmets with metallic spray paint on them and shirts with print. They seriously do not give a fuck. D&D embezzled the budget for this show.

Daily reminder this is how they looked in the trailer. Plate armor, surcoat, shield, helmet, spear.

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Do you think we will see the use of Wildfire in the Battle for Kingslandingor that they could not be bothered?

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S1:Barely $2mn an episode D&D had to beg HBO to include any form of battle for the first 3 seasons.
S8:At least $15mn an episode not including marketing only one actual battle and it was shit.

maybe the gate from last episode is lion gate? it is consistent with this picture where lion gate couldnt be seen because of the hill

Apparently stand outside the walls and die like idiots because those TOP JEWISH MINDS behind the shows with their high racial IQ think having people standing outside the walls of a castle rather than manning the walls is how medieval warfare actually worked.

Dany burns down the city so why not Wildfire aswell?
The death of 1mn people is the perfect sound of how this entire season has gone.

Based

Nope they'll just forget it existed. I mean why the fuck not they forgot about Bran and Jon having character arcs that no go nowhere.

Thres literally a transgender in the front row (far right), and none of the incels on this board have spotted xer yet.

y'all really DO need to have sex.

They stacked it all over the city and Cercei will want to blow the whole place up. BURN THEM ALL!

They could at least have some more axes in there. Last time I saw a decent amount was with the hill tribes. It just makes things more interesting if you have a variation on weapons.

>the world is about to end
>hmm, we are staying with the crazy bitch

>axe
none ever used axes beside some unwashed peasants. Poleaxes maybe but not axes

CGI i.e. money laundering, why do you think big budget films are the shit nowadays?

>Benioff got his start writing this shit
youtube.com/watch?v=IxYjczMBcW4
The battle of Kingslanding will be no better than this.

just like in the battle against the wights
stand outside the wall, don't use artillery for more than a few seconds, don't use archers.

>Being this illiterate
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Company

but they're fighting Daenerys

the devil knows more from experience than for being the devil

did they just reskin unsullied gear

also i made a compilation of this shit show imgur.com/gallery/1hahB3V

no one uses spears apart from unwashed peasants, it was the cheapest weapon to have and required the least training.
elite golden army uses 100 spears.
richest army in westeros, the lannisters, use spears.
super-feared unsullied killing machines, use spears.
how do the dothraki afford their custom weapons?

Troy is kino faggot

Unironically a better battle scene than episode 3

>yet somehow stopped a Dothraki attack
Dothraki used a curved blade only good for slashing, not stabbing.

where's Griff

damn didnt know that. i really liked troy. it is my guilty pleasure movie. he is not bad when it comes to adapting books desu senpai. first 4 seasons are phenomenal. it is when he has to write without template when he goes full retard

>MUH EQUAL RIGHTS
This show went to shit as soon as they started applying today's forced morality to a medieval setting

honestly I think most mercenary companies would wonder about going up against dragons, but apparently dragons are shit now, so...

This is KL at the end of S7 as Jaime rides north. Sea access is clearly visible. Also there is zero snow in KL despite it starting to snow in S7's final few minutes. There's clearly no highground in the Dany scene last episode. There's no forest either and no blackwater bay.
I expected blizzards not the same old, same old summer either.

Just shitty writing and production all round and I'm just sticking around to see it end despite knowing full well how it ends.
It's an insult to fans, it's an insult to GoT's legacy and it's an insult to GRRM's work itself.
I hope this abomination of a season will forever haunt D&D for the rest of their lives. Even the normies are getting pissed off now.

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Bran plays a crucial role in the final 2 episodes.

Spears were the main weapon used in war, literally up until guns made them obsolete. Swords and axes and maces were side-arms.

if they actually showed that happening in the show, or any effect from the "winter" that was supposed to end the world, it would actually be clever

are these niggers westerosi exiles? if not why even name them golden company

>none ever used axes beside some unwashed peasants
it depends, Dane axes enjoyed some popularity in the 11th-12th century in northern Europe

>but apparently dragons are shit now

...until the plot decides they aren't. You can trust anything when a show decides to throw internal logic out the door.

total war: rome was a cool game

Anyone else feel like episode 3s battle was a major disappointment from a "wow" standpoint?
Like it was the most hyped up fantasy battle in years but all we could see was just wwz with swords.
I think I saw maybe one giant, no wight animals, no spiders, no fight scenes with the walkers, no interesting tactics or plays, just an hour of mindless fighting

main weapon of war because the bulk of them were peasants.
anyone with any money at all had a sword.

not by the late medieval period. Spears were largely supplanted by pikes and more specialist polearms

If there is one place in a medieval setting where a female soldier fits in it is a fucking mercenary company. The Golden Company having a few women is not surprising.

You didn't see the barells in the last episode?

>main weapon of war because the bulk of them were peasants.
wrong, except in very few cases
>anyone with any money at all had a sword
Yes, and it was used as a side-arm, compared to lances and pikes

>no one uses spears apart from unwashed peasants, it was the cheapest weapon to have and required the least training.
Fuck off dude. Spears were the AR-15 of the medieval world precisely because they could kill shitloads of people and were easy to use. Swords were a SIDE ARM.

bulk of an army were almost always levies, knights or sellswords, none fielded peasants until Napoleon you brainlet

The fact they hyped it up and claimed it would be better than Helms Deep made me laugh.

It was generic as fuck, zero tension,bad tactics,shitty post production, shitty acting and shitty in resolution.

A Dothraki curved blade was far more likely to penetrate and kill than a rusted shitty dagger stabbed directly into the front bevel of the plate. Virtually anyone in plate armor would have decimated the wights in reality, unless they had hammers.

>Wars of the Roses 1455 - 1485
It really bothers me the tech level being all over the fucking place. The development of weapons and armor over time, from adoption to dominance to obsolescence is very well documented. If the Westeros dudes are meant to be late medieval then the iron islands/vikings, dothraki/mongols and unsullied/hoplites would get absolutely raped in every battle, minus the dragons of course.
The Dothraki bother me the most, proper mongols would adopt every technology and advancement they came across, as well as being master strategists, not retards charging at everything.

>peasant meme
Most battles were fought between Noble families,their household guards and their lesser nobles. Those extended family,adopted family and intermarried family bonded together for centuries through the honour system.

The vast majority of medieval armies especially in the mid-high medieval period were fully paid professional troops that are fulltime.
What most people think about is the earliest few centuries of those days with the levies and peasant conscripts where contrary to popular belief the vast majority of forces were paid mercenaries who were all experienced soldiers and had their own equipment.
When the return to centralisation began, the recruits put into the regular army were Yeomanry men. Those "free men" who were usually attendants to nobles and lived on the land of nobles. No longer poor peasants, they owned land and had some wealth and sometimes great wealth depending on the size of their land. This wealth allowed them to purchase their own military grade equipment if not part of a professional army.
Yeoman could become judges,knights,mayors,merchants,lesser nobles etc.

If you fielded your peasants, your entire kingdom was gonna starve you mongoloid. The main bulk of armies have been, depending on the place and culture, tribesmen, mercenaries, landowners who were required by law to buy arms and train with them and professional or semi-professional soldiers

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Mongols were overrated anyway, they got raped by European knights and castles

God you are a fucking muppet aren't you? I bet you believe armour is too heavy to move in, too.

>Swords were a SIDE ARM
depends on the sword and era you're talking about. Larger swords were often used as primary weapons by front line troops. They were also commonly used as more than just a sidearm because spears can break and get stuck in things so you might struggle to keep using it, especially in a crush.

with a short 500 years hiccup as the romans with swords conquered half of the known world

Kek, someone audit D&D, the amount of the budget they've skimmed by now has got to be above 10 mil

romans were armed with TWO spears each

>mounted
>absolutely zero leg armor
What the Christ

>Even the normies are getting pissed off now.
yeah, but they are pissed because missandei and dragon were killed while claiming it is because of plot holes, inconsistencies and lacks of logic. if that was true, the long night would also be absolutely shitted on, instead, dozen of websites have it listed as one of the best episodes ever

The only moment of slight interest was when the unsullied formed the defensive square to escort Mellisendre to the trench. I was hoping for something a little more Zulu where clever tactics and positioning win the day against a superior foe. Instead the heroes won because Arya rolled a natural 20 on the big bad.

>episode 3s battle was a major disappointment
No. They've pretty much fucked up every "battle" scene they managed to film between cat fights. They're all dumb as fuck, and the end of the NK was no different. That's when I stopped watching. Still fun to shitpost about, though.

Did the mad man Stannis try to climb Aegon's high hill?

Unironically correct. Too bad Aegon isn't leading them. Though I doubt he's a targ in the books.
>have the iron bank.
Realistically they shouldn't even have the bank. Cersei paying back the entire debt was foolish. Now the bank has no stake in keeping the lannisters in power and they could switch support to Dany who even with 1 dragon should still be able to wipe out armies.

Didn't he kill like twenty guys alone in that scene before going down though

Eh, spears still saw common usage. Two of the three lines of the Camillan legion used spears and in the armies of the Dominate spears became increasingly common as well. The legions of the Principate did primarily use swords but auxiliaries and other supporting troops were mainly spearmen

no, he was fighting at River(Mud) gate

javelin to throw at people before the actual combat.
the romans dropped the phalanx spear system 200bc or so

Why are they white? I thought they are coming from that other continent, shouldn't they be like the Dothraki/the Grey Worm nerds

As whores, sure, but not as "fighters" or "equals" by ANY means. Females are a COMMODITY to men and destroy cohesion in a unit, that's why they were excluded, and why "camp followers" existed.

they dropped the phalanx some time in the 4th century, but in the Camillan legion the hastati and triarii still mainly used spears.

well that explains a lot. but why? surely not budget cuts.

This is really adorable, user

>Golden company
>Make the soldiers wear literal gold coloured armour
Bravo Dabid, bravo.

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Cersei rules as a Lannister. Joffery and Tommen ruled as Baratheon-Lannister and had a banner that was half Baratheon stag and half Lannister Lion.

If I hire a mercenary company and I see fucking slatches in their ranks I’m cutting the contract and telling them to fuck off right then and there

And I don’t even feel half as strongly about that as a fucking medieval lord would

They're wearing fucking pajama pants. Just lmfao.

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and with the marian reforms the short sword was the main battle weapon of a roman legion.
not counting auxiliaries or special events ofc.

anyone with any money had a sword
you pathetic brainless cunt

Wtf are those pants LMAO

makes no sense

the throne was claimed by the baratheons, she was only queen-consort

by rights it would go back to the next baratheon relatives, in this case House Estermont

If your unit can't maintain cohesion because one member has tits you need to fire whoever trained them because they're hopelessly incompetent.

for throwing

No it doesn't depend on the era, nobody would use a fucking sword except stupid ass samurais in combat because the polearm / spear was superior. Even Samurai preferred the bow before drawing their swords in combat.

More than likely the cast bitched and moaned about having to put it in and wear it all the time

wymyn have always been on the front lines of battle, racist
it's 2019

Show-only pleb confirmed (if this is not a bait)

The Golden Company in the books was founded 90+ years before by westerosi supporters of a Targaryen Bastard who tried to usurp the throne founding hiw own cadet branch (the House Blackfyre). The original members of the company were loyalist who swore to return to their homeland and put the dude or his descendants on the throne

Even after the Blackfyres got wipe out, the Company still usually enlisted exiled from westeros. Book Jorah briefly was part of them before joining Danenerys group

Also there is a cool lore aspect about their banner: it's decorated with the skull of the former captains of the company melted in gold: they were exiled from their motherland, and hoped one day to return to it as skulls on the Company's banner

>white knighting for women in a fictional force
A new incel low

Female soldier can never be as capable as male one. There is no reason for they should be there.

You have to blame movies and tv for that. None shows real (high) medieval battles. Knights usually were not even really trying to kill each other. Taking the other knight as prisoner and taking ransom (sometimes even right on the battlefield) was a lot more desirable.

kings landing has changed.

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>no one ever used swords
upvoted for being the stupidest post in the thread

>final season
>guaranteed to make mega bank
>cheap out on everything
>cheat the fanbase out of a ghost sendoff because muh cgi resources

they don't fucking care about the fans

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your perspective is skewed, just like the show.
we are talking about medieval times here you brainlet. those footsoldiers could not, i repeat, could NOT keep it in their pants.

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beneath the gold the bitter steel

It's a shame your idealism isn't reflected in reality though

>I have no argument and I want everyone to know it

Episode 3 already got a lot of flack from normies. They praise the battle but seems like a lot of them are waking up and criticize the story. I see more people getting annoyed by Arya's kill then praise the girl power.

>No it doesn't depend on the era
yes it fucking does. Late Med warfare had largely moved on from spear formations as the cornerstone of infantry combat due to the ubiquity of plate armour.

The romans used two spears, and they used their short swords for thrusting. They were also suppored by a lot auxiliaries who used other weapons.

If whoever trained them took a woman over a man then he should have been fired from the beginning.

>muh strong slay queens

Yeah, right.

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Why doesnt Westeros just split back into seven individual kingdoms?

wymyns are in the SAS and delta force now, it is only in the last century that they HAVEN'T been in all front line forces around the world.
grow up and have sex

>B-but the prophecy!
>nissa nisssa, lightbringrrerrererrr!
>STANNIS STANNIS
>DUDE BLACKFYREEEEEEE

bookfags make me want to puke

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>If there is one place in a medieval setting where a female soldier fits in it is a fucking mercenary company.
Nope. The only place women existed in medieval warfare was with the baggage train acting as whores, cooks, and medical staff. That's historical. What rare exceptions occurred usually involved women who were nobility or were trapped in siege conditions. German and Italian mercenaries would regularly have their wifes/hangers-on follow them on campaign, but they weren't fighters. This is just schlock.

Humans weren't animals 800 years ago.
Trainers don't pick who they train, nor does having a woman mean you passed over a man.

>hurr people of the past were literal savages
almost as bad a meme as plate-armor being defeated by the crossbow.

BASED Eva poster

test fuck janny

Can you name one instance in real life where women fought in armies or mercenary companies?
>m-muh shield maidens
Complete fabrication.

How is it even possible for a show like this to have budget problems.
Maybe stop paying millionaire fees to these shit writers and actors

No. I'm not a historian. Why are you asking me something that has nothing to do with my post?

They should be told to shut the fuck up. If they're getting paid millions per episode they can wear 12lbs of shitty armor. It's not even a full harness.

This spray painted plastic shit looks like a high school stage production.

Cool backstory for the but in the show they're just generic merc company to be used as cannon fodder for Drogon. They dont even have the elephants. Thanks dabid.

youtube.com/watch?v=C7NSUFDHFgg

>The Golden Company are highly disciplined soldiers able to quickly establish orderly camps.[5][8]

>The high officers display a rude splendor. Like many in their trade they keep their worldly wealth upon their person, including jewelled swords, inlaid armor, heavy torcs, and fine silks. Many wear a lord's ransom in golden arm rings, with each ring signifying one year's service with the Golden Company.

>The captain-general's tent, made of cloth-of-gold, is surrounded by a ring of pikes topped with the gilded skulls of previous captains-general

Bravo DABID

I actually like the armor. The golden company is supposed to be some ragtag mercenary group, and IIRC they were running low on money in the books. Every other set of armor in the show still looks fucking terrible though

I live in florida and have had to deal with boomers like this many times. Anywhere from last call at a bar to noon at an ATM, they are that autistic.

>wymyns are in the SAS and delta force now,
Now maybe. But this was never the norm in past.

you got blown the fuck out before you even posted.

based

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What a stupid post. That isn't even close to what he was asking for. Nor are the female Soviet snipers before you go that route.

>Ragtag
Quite the opposite. They're the cream of the crop as far as mercenaries go.

>Now maybe
no, there are no women in the SAS. They're allowed to join but none have passed so far. There hasn't been a female bootneck yet either

Just looked it up and they're super rich. Still like the armor though

i like you

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each of the main actors earns 300-500k per episode.
add up all those faggots and most of the episode budget is gone.
then you have to pay for hundreds and hundreds of extras for each different location, for each day of filming, then all the core crew, the 4-6 directors, the on-set writers, stunt crew, physical special effects stuff - smoke costs 90 grand a day, explosives etc etc etc
If the main actors weren't sucking up every penny they could, there would be more for costumes and so on.
Keep in mind that the costumes in series 7 cost about 200 each just for the extras. Times that by 250-300 extras per side in a battle or in a scene. They burn and ruin a lot of them too.

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They're going for a zouave wear, which makes slight sense since they usually fight in the deserts between Tyrosh and Lys.
Zouaves are Berber fighters that fought in the algerian desert.
Still pretty weird.

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Will Villeneuve's Dune replace GoT as the tasteful fandom of the decade?

Why did the show look so much better with more extras and real sets in season 1+2?

>mercs
Cringe

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It's the actors' salaries.

Except that dude has a gun, the queers in OPs pic do not

>A Dothraki curved blade was far more likely to penetrate
It's shaped like a sickle, retard. You literally can't stab with it.

Where do you think the levies came from?

sexy

i doubt the principle actors were paid quite nearly so much in the first series, it simply wouldn't have been possible, plus - no one had heard of game of thrones.
whenever a series becomes popular, the actors start upping their demands very rapidly, for one they want a piece of the action, and secondly they think that the series can't continue without them, so they have leverage to blackmail with.
who knows how many billions games of thrones makes, but whatever is reserved for the episodes is sucked dry by the familiar faces.
when that happens on big films, and the actor is a really big actor, they tend to pour a large part of their own salary back into the film just to make sure no corners are cut.
Arnold did that for Terminator 3, despite it not turning out great in the end. I think he returned 10 million of his own wage packet for that, something ridiculous.

I'm just explaining what the pants are for. Zouaves are an ottoman unit of Berber fighters in the XVIIIth century that the french then copied for their uniforms when they thrust into Africa.

The pants are good for the desert because you don't cook with them on.
I'm just explaining why those pants aren't completely retarded, it's a common thing to wear something like that in a hot climate.

>ragtag
I fucking quit

as it should be
wymynz have to be unburdened so they can fight at top efficiency using martial arts and backflips like black widow.
ever see black widow carrying a bergen?

please tell me this isnt history accurate
>lets all slowly walk into the other sides spearwall and poke each other

not really a history buff but I remember the main problem with the norman and viking invasion of england Harold had trouble keeping his army together because many men needed to go back to the fields.

Why does it feel like this will be deleted?

Where the fuck is the elephant?

So its not the extras and writers set's or CGI the main reason the show looks like shit now is the main actors.

>lets replace chainmail with some knitted ones no one will notice trust me

knights carried a small, fortified dagger with which they could penetrate armour at close range after disabling the enemy.
most likely, all the wights were equipped with rondels for just that occasion.

Actors were paid less.

They have been doing it since the ancient greeks.

He's with Gilly.

I remember literally this same conversation an year ago. Also viking/norman invasion is very early in Medieval period

If you have a glass of water and you freeze it, does the level go up, down or stay the same?

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Ready to be raped i like it

there's no more extras or writers than there were.
computer graphics have increased throughout the series, but it still isn't everywhere. it can't be anywhere near as expensive as costumes or extras, otherwise they'd employ 1,000 people instead of 200.
Jaime lannister is on 450 grand an episode. If he trimmed off a slice of his wages and the other half dozen top dogs did the same, they could have fully finished costumes for the extras.
given that you'll only see them in a couple of scenes, they perhaps don't think it is worth it to make particularly good uniforms.
lannister ones were good quality, but they were reused for tons of scenes over the years.

what do they spend money on?
they have more budget with each season
why is this the only show on television right now where CGI monsters apparently break the bank?

kinda is. if two pike blocks were to engange in a stabbing match it would have looked like this.
but it was very uncommon.
the arqebuse guys and arty would shoot at each other until one side backs off

In the books.
If you seriously think that Young Griff is in the show you are dumb as all hell.

Budget was embezzled
That's the only fucking way

Who else here can't wait to watch dumbass roasties seethe over Dany getting LONGCLAW'D

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be careful posting selfies, you might get doxxed

>Selmy
>Littlefinger
>Stannis
Why did all of the most interesting characters get thrown into the fucking trash can?

Selmy killed Maegor the cruel and Young Griff aint in the show.

showing the dire wolves for 3 seconds in a still shot of it panting and waiting to be killed off once a year drained all the resources completely.
they've had to make the final series with only pennies per episode because of it.

>No Celtic group employed a regular military as we would understand it. Organisation was according to clan grouping and social class.

Are people really in this thread saying ancient armies didn't have peasants as infantry?

no

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If they have tits they are weak and a deadly danger to any formation.

which one was stannis? too many names to remember.

This shot was completely inconsistent with all the previous seasons, retard. THAT is the messup.

What do you think happened? People just ran forward and voluntarily skewered themselves?

Stannis of House The Mannis, incinerator of children

>doesnt post picture of previous seasons to prove his point

you know this is an image board right?

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yes, historical revisionist faggots who also claim no one ever used swords in warfare.

I actually quite like the pants, they're reminiscent of the sort of insane outfits that IRL landskcnechts would wear. The rest is retarded tho

Google "bad war", yeah it's that bad.

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Here's one of the only surviving photos of King Arthur, wielding Excalibur.

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Imagine being a young man drafted from the fields and thrust at the front of the pike formation, forced to walk forward by the men behind you into a wall of death.

It's not that different from what it became hundreds of years later, where riflemen essentially did the same thing.

Cousin to Prince Dorne, of House Dorne, located in their castle Dorne, within the kingdom of Dorne

Golden Company is from the Free Cities, whereas the Unsullied are from Slaver's Bay. The Free Cities, while an ethnic melange, were settled primarily from Valyria where the people are incredibly pale. It's Western Essos, so there are plenty of 'white' people there. In fact, in the books even Qarth is supposed to be inhabited mostly by whites.

I can't even imagine to be honest, war can be some horrible shit.

Peasants don’t need weapons of war! Think of the children!

I don't have to imagine it. I was there, it was real, in my mind.

Pikemen were very highly trained, you have to move in formation carrying a giant stick with hundreds of other men. Easier to train with a musket.

Absolutely budget cuts. The longer a show goes on, the higher everyone's salary gets because of seniority. So they changed out the production staff to save on labor.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_Battalion

I hate the actors then

>a last-ditch effort to inspire
>believed that female soldiers would have significant propaganda value
>they hoped the presence of women would shame hesitant male soldiers into resuming their combat duties

Pure propaganda.