Was the Battle of the Bastards an accurate depiction of Medieval Warfare? Like alright put the giant aside for a minute, was this realistic? Why are people ok with asspulls like Jon never getting hit by an arrow, or the Cavalry deus ex machina?
Was the Battle of the Bastards an accurate depiction of Medieval Warfare? Like alright put the giant aside for a minute...
Cooper Torres
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Parker Nelson
No
Because they don't care as long as it's "Bad ass dude!"
Henry Gonzalez
Aside from the MC's plot armor, it was pretty good. They use actual battle tactics, the archers are positioned correctly, the combatants tire and gasp for air, horses freak out, people die trampled.
Realistically, Jon would be trampled to death by horses.
Ian Thompson
Not at all, but hey, at least they actually tried
Noah Jones
It was decent, but by no means "accurate".
Still better than most battles in other shows, not to mentions Season 8
Nicholas Nelson
>both sides start by charging light cavalry
Light cavalry is meant to harass the flanks and pursue routers, using them like heavy cavalry is stupid as fuck, because they can't even break infantry formations and would be badly damaged by the archers
Countering cavalry with cavalry is ok, but in the middle of the main battlefield, light cavalry vs light cavalry combat would happen in the flanks
>both infantries charge
It's pitch battle yeah, but it doesn't mean both sides would give up the advantage of holding their ground waiting for the enemy to charge
>it becomes hollywood brawl
just...
>random pile of corpses appears out nowhere
duh... this isn't American civil war.
I'm more bothered by the military strengths of this battle and how the show forgot about them.
Jon army:
>mostly light infantry wildlings
I dunno where the fuck did this cavalry come from
Ramsay's army:
>mostly heavy infantry Northmen
>cavalry
Even if Jon's forces outnumbered Ramsay's host, Bolton would have won easily. Jon is an absolute moron for thinking he had a real chance of winning without help from the Vale.
Also, realistically the Wildlings would have routed long before the Knights of Vale arrived, and Ramsay's cavalry would have massacred them in pursuit.
Dylan Williams
>Game of Thrones battles
>realistic
It couldn't have been less accurate if they were running around with assault rifles and tanks
Isaiah Allen
Ramsays army would be light infantry too considering North is supposed to bw IRLs vikangs?
Brody Young
Pretty sure the North is supposed to be Scots.
Lucas Reyes
The technology has clearly come on, I liked the kinetic feel of cavalry smashing into troops.