So who else really got their hopes up with the initial battle, but then got really disappointed really fast when it went full fantasy combat?
Now if you were the GM of the GoT campaign, how would you have resolved it instead. It worked great up to the piles and the wall. What could replace that phase?
I'd have had the entire group, on both sides, just shit themselves uncontrollably for the entire rest of the episode.
Like, people would be actually drowning in shit.
As opposed to drowning in zombies like everyone'll be in E10 when the Night's King goes waltzing through that battlefield.
Would have Sansa raped and flayed tbqhwy
>full fantasy
Elaborate. I believe the battle was pretty good, although I had hoped they were going to do a little roller coaster climb to the battle and start it just as the episode ended, to be honest.
>corpses falling in piles
>those piles becoming a tactical feature
>Bolton infantry literally encircling opposition with a shield wall
>John literally drowning in corpses
In an anime battle this would be fine. But this is Game of Thrones. Literally!
Yeah it was badly done.
Plus there was around 300 people or so shown.
Bit lack luster for a battle with 9000 combatants.
>Sansa tells Jon about the Knights of the Vale
>CIA brings friends, even if it takes a few days of waiting to see whether or not they actually show up
>Boltons get intimidated and hole up in Winterfell
>wildlings fashion for Wun Wun makeshift armor, shield, and bludgeon (S4E9 has giants using bows and complex mechanisms to help break a fortified door, meaning giants are intelligent and can use complex tools)
>wildlings send in Wun Wun to completely batter down the gates
>wildlings and Knights of the Vale pour into Winterfell and seize it in an instant
>nearly 0% casualties for Jon's side
Why did they not do this?
ALTERNATIVELY:
>the wildlings bring out Wun Wun's massive, ridiculously long-range bow from S4E9
>they have Wun Wun snipe Ramsay from afar, with Ramsay having absolutely no counter to this
It seems that the entire Bastardbowl could have been avoided by better communication from Sansa and much better usage of Wun Wun, instead of sending the giant in completely unarmored and unarmed.
wasent the infantry charge distance long as hell?
GoT is now nothing but disappointment.
It's disappointment upon disappointment with the occasional little gem in it that tries to tell you that it's worth digging through the bland samey trash to find more such gems but you quickly realize it really isn't.
There is no reward for getting invested in a character as most of the likable ones are dead now.
The stupid ones and Saturday morning cartoon villain ones are still around despite other more entertaining/likable characters having been killed off for far less reason.
Despite being hype as fuck starting it back in the start of season 1 I don't think I shall bother with season 5.