HBO's Game of Thrones - - - Part 12

[Reek]

This Sexton has made my Hype bleed. I cannot forget that. I cannot forgive that.

 

[Roose Bolton]

 

[Reek]

seriously getting tired of telling people to shut the **** up!

 

[Roose Bolton]

So yeah I can't wait to see how they adapt the Dunk and Egg Novellas on scree-

 

[Reek]

 

[Roose Bolton]

 

[Reek]

 

[Roose Bolton]

 

[Ramsay Snow]

 

[Great Mind(s)]

 

[Drizzle]

This thread is like when there's a breakout in Arkham Asylum and the Joker takes over.

 

[Kane52630]

This comes with great irony but damn stop posting so many gifs.

 

[Drizzle]

This comes with great irony but damn stop posting so many gifs.

Well, well, well.....if irony were strawberries, we'd all be drinking smoothies right now.

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But seriously, I agree.

 

[Ezio Auditore]

i don't know how to post videos (i did it but they didn't appear). so im posting the links

Histories and Lore : The North
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9-mYGpVSOI


Histories and Lore: House Bolton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vRl1BtmD0M


Histories and Lore : The Riverlands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Xk7bCal9E

 

[Silvermoon]

i don't know how to post videos (i did it but they didn't appear). so im posting the links

Histories and Lore : The North
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9-mYGpVSOI


Histories and Lore: House Bolton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vRl1BtmD0M


Histories and Lore : The Riverlands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Xk7bCal9E

To embed youtube videos, all you need to put in between the Histories and Lore: House Bolton

Histories and Lore : The Riverlands

 

[Lord]

I have to wonder, instead of having to hope the Night's watch remains good enough to keep driving off the barbarians, why didn't they simply invade and conquer the remaining of the north already? If it was because they were separated, then what about after Aegon's conquest? They should have just sent a large army and conquer that place, it's not that large from what it seems, and the barbarians aren't that big of a threat, as it has been shown already, without the element of surprise they would just fall.

 

[Victarion]

I have to wonder, instead of having to hope the Night's watch remains good enough to keep driving off the barbarians, why didn't they simply invade and conquer the remaining of the north already? If it was because they were separated, then what about after Aegon's conquest? They should have just sent a large army and conquer that place, it's not that large from what it seems, and the barbarians aren't that big of a threat, as it has been shown already, without the element of surprise they would just fall.

The rest of the North wouldn't do well. George has compared the area beyond the wall to Canada in terms of size. Charging into a frozen, mountainous wilderness where the wildlings have the advantage of fighting on their terms would be too risky. That's to say nothing of the wargs and skinchangers who could scout out the North, track them, and give the other wildlings intel. Intel that would let the wildlings catch the Northerners unawares. I'm not considering what would happen if the Northerners found the "Heart of Winter," either.

 

[Lord]

The north attacking the wildings themselves would catch them unaware, as long as they only sent them some forces for that expedition, instead of all their defenses. A Targaryen could have sent a dragon if needed, let's not forget that some of these wars have lead to kingdom after kingdon being taken, why not try doing the same in that place instead of leaving the threat to atack and lick its wounds safelly beyond the wall?

 

[Victarion]

The dragons would be the best bet; I couldn't give you a reason that the Targs didn't send a dragon as I've not read beyond the main series yet. However, scouting by the wargs and skinchangers would still give the wildlings the advantage. If the Northerners got the slip on a small settlement and start advancing, I think they'd be found out and put down. Have you read the books, Lord?

Spoilers for A Dance with Dragons

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I'd see an attempted Northerner invasion going something like the ironborn invasion of the North, particularly Moat Cailin. Victarion and his reavers were losing a guerilla war against the crannogmen and their poisons. Fighting on familiar ground would give the wildlings quite an advantage.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

I have to wonder, instead of having to hope the Night's watch remains good enough to keep driving off the barbarians, why didn't they simply invade and conquer the remaining of the north already? If it was because they were separated, then what about after Aegon's conquest? They should have just sent a large army and conquer that place, it's not that large from what it seems, and the barbarians aren't that big of a threat, as it has been shown already, without the element of surprise they would just fall.

The north attacking the wildings themselves would catch them unaware, as long as they only sent them some forces for that expedition, instead of all their defenses. A Targaryen could have sent a dragon if needed, let's not forget that some of these wars have lead to kingdom after kingdon being taken, why not try doing the same in that place instead of leaving the threat to atack and lick its wounds safelly beyond the wall?

Beyond the Wall is an immense, frozen wasteland of unknown size that provides no strategic or political benefit to formally holding. The Wall wasn't built to keep out the wildlings or even the dangerous beasts like direwolves, but the White Walkers (which are real and were known to be real at the time of the Wall's construction). As real-world examples prove, invading an extremely cold climate in winter (in this case, a perpetual winter) will never succeed. The wildlings aren't a united, sedentary group. They're fractured and nomadic. There's no one single stronghold to attack and siege as there is in Westeros. Trying to fight them would become a guerrilla war with them having the advantage of the terrain. A dragon couldn't be used beyond the Wall because it couldn't survive in the climate for long. The Targaryens were already occupied with trying to conquer Dorne until they finally decided to form an alliance with the Martells through marriage.

 

[Ezio Auditore]

To embed youtube videos, all you need to put in between the Histories and Lore: House Bolton

Histories and Lore : The Riverlands

aaaaah

thanks a lot man!

 

[Ramsay Snow]

I can't wait to see the White Walkers invade.

 

[Iceman]

The White Walker in the prologue looked quite different to the ones we've seen since right? I really like both designs anyway.

 

[Roose Bolton]

You would, wouldn't you...Iceman.

 

[Maximus One]

The first white walker looked like a Predator