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husniack
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
203 Posts
March 07 2015 03:52 GMT
#1
I am kind of confused. When the wilding army was attacking castle black ... out numbering them 1000 to 1 ... why were they climbing up the giant ice wall when there were people who had clearly infiltrated into the castle? Why not keep sending soldiers into the castle?

Why didn't the wildings follow the big giant through the tunnel?

Why did they cease fighting when it seemed they were making so much progress?

I felt like it made no sense.

Ryuhou)aS(
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States1174 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-03-07 04:07:53
March 07 2015 04:07 GMT
#2
Well, the group that attacked inside the castle actually already climbed the wall at a different area (where there was no castle/guards or whatever) and actually attacked from the other side of the wall. It was that group with the weird bald guys and Egrit (Igritte? i donno how to spell her name) that was attacking villages before this.

I'm not really sure why they didn't follow the giants (maybe something about not having full control over the giants in a way that it would cause heavy losses?)
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blade55555
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States17423 Posts
March 07 2015 05:37 GMT
#3
So they didn't put to many more over the walls because they didn't know how many people there would be. Snow lied obviously about how many people they had, so Mance was playing it smart.

It is later said (unless I remember wrong) Mance says he was testing the wall and when he saw how few there were he sent a lot more men to go over the wall to do the same attack that igrit/john did.

So again may be remembering wrong, but when the Giant lifted the gate, there were no troops nearby because they had literally just got burned. The one giant was enraged that his buddy died, so he lifted it and charged through.

The one thing I can agree with you though is climbing the ice wall from where they were was retarded. Even if they somehow managed to make it up, they'd be exhausted and never kill anyone (let alone not many would ever come up at a time).
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BEARDiaguz
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Australia2362 Posts
March 07 2015 06:39 GMT
#4
On March 07 2015 12:52 husniack wrote:
I am kind of confused. When the wilding army was attacking castle black ... out numbering them 1000 to 1 ... why were they climbing up the giant ice wall when there were people who had clearly infiltrated into the castle? Why not keep sending soldiers into the castle?

Why didn't the wildings follow the big giant through the tunnel?

Why did they cease fighting when it seemed they were making so much progress?

I felt like it made no sense.


if nothing else, remember wildlings are primarily an undisciplined mob with no real concept of siege warfare and no proper education really. I can imagine them just seeing the thing and being completely overwhelmed at it's sheer magnitude and not being able to imagine a way to defeat it. People in medieval times are kinda dumb, and battles (to my understanding of military history anyway) are confusing things to get involved in. And remember they only make one attempt on the wall itself, the losses they sustain were a tiny percentage of their overall force. You don't have to throw everything you've got on the first day of a siege, unless you're Stannis Baratheon or a film.

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LastWish
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
2015 Posts
March 08 2015 00:14 GMT
#5
Yeah, this episode reminded me of some Peter Jackson LOTR cheesiness... rather disappointing...
- It's all just treason - They bring me down with their lies - Don't know the reason - My life is fire and ice -
boxerfred
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
Germany8360 Posts
March 08 2015 01:15 GMT
#6
initially 100 wildlings climbed the wall but somehow when they attacked they were like 10000s which was pretty boring

movies lel
Nebuchad
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
Switzerland12447 Posts
March 08 2015 12:02 GMT
#7
On March 08 2015 10:15 boxerfred wrote:
initially 100 wildlings climbed the wall but somehow when they attacked they were like 10000s which was pretty boring

movies lel


The 100 who climbed the wall were fighting in the castle, and the 10000s who attacked from the other side of the wall hadn't crossed it yet.
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Big J
Profile Joined March 2011
Austria16289 Posts
March 08 2015 15:47 GMT
#8
That's why in these days we only send people around the age of 18-30years into combat, because it's their intellectual peak. The wildlings were probably overaged when they attacked and made dumb decisions.
Hryul
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Austria2609 Posts
March 08 2015 17:38 GMT
#9
we sent this age group into combat because they are at their physical peak at that age and modern equipment ruins the joints of soldiers through sheer weight.
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