[TV] HBO Game of Thrones - Page 564

On June 04 2012 08:06 jakek95 wrote:
What time does it start and what channel In the us? Looking for a stream

On June 04 2012 03:52 RvB wrote:


The Dothraki do have some big weaknesses. First they would be in hostile territory which is an obvious disadvantage although less so because they've always lived off the land. And second because while they're mobile in battle they're not actually that mobile out of battle. They have all their food a baggage train and women and children which they will need to protect with them at all times.

What I would do to battle them is take everything eatable from the lands where they're going and then let everyone in the cities. Now assemble an army of horsemen and just let them follow the Dothraki everywhere they go without attacking (Fabian tactics). Now there will always be the threat that the supply train of the Dothraki will get attacked and at the same time there's not a lot of eatable stuff left to live on. So they can't really attack the opponents army because they're on horse too but they can't really leave their supply train either because then it would just get raided.
An important aspect of this strategy will be a lot of scouts so that you know the exact movement of the opponent so whenever they send out a raiding party you know where it's going and you can overwhelm the enemy this way it'will be really difficult for the Dothraki to raid and you'll just have to wait for disease and famine to spread across the enemy troops while assembling a big army from all the kingdoms and then it will be possible to beat them.

That would be what I would do anyway :D.

On June 04 2012 07:00 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
I quarrel with the Doth'raki logistics was under the assumption that somehow, the entire Khalisar could instantly be teleported across the narrow sea (because in all honesty, that is the only way it could make it across. All the fleets in the world would be needed to transport an army that large in one trip, including horses and supplies).

If you're allowing them to hire mercenaries in Essos before they teleport, you're just making the logistics of the invasion even more absurd. Let me reemphasize, there is no way they could assemble or hire a fleet large enough to transport the entire army in one trip. Multiple trips would be a disaster.

The only reason the Doth'raki invasion is even fathomable is because we are assuming "if the Doth'raki had made it across the narrow sea..."

On June 04 2012 07:00 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
Robert would probably have ultimate authority because as many have mentioned, if anything, a Doth'raki invasion would unite pretty much all of Westeros under a single cause (Cersei would probably even put her shit on hold for fear that Joffrey might not have a throne if the Doth'raki aren't stopped). Back to the mercenaries, I am going to bet that there are very few people in Westeros capable of speaking the Doth'raki language, the cultural barrier would make hiring any mercenaries extremely unlikely which goes back to the fact that the Doth'raki would be stuck in foreign enemy territory without any access to reinforcements.

On June 04 2012 07:00 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
You're mistaken, the Doth'raki DO have to fight. They are a nomadic horde, they have to raid and pillage for supplies. If they just camp outside King's landing, they will just starve and die off to attrition. Any city with a port would be impossible to take. They have no knowledge of the landscape, this massive horde would be wandering the countryside without any clear goal in sight with the only guide being Jorah Mormont. They would almost never have the advantage of a surprise attacks, their scouts unfamiliar with the land would be vastly inferior to any Westerosi scouts.

On June 04 2012 07:00 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
The Doth'raki just wouldn't have the resources to compete with a united empire of Westeros (because let's be real, it really is an Empire). You say that the 40,000 Horseman are what will win the Doth'raki the day, but I'm fairly certain Westeros could muster up close to that number of armored lancers in addition to hundreds of thousands of infantry.

Also, people should stop comparing the Doth'raki to the Mongols so literally, the Mongols had SOME armor at least, as far as we've seen, the Doth'raki literally ride into battle shirtless with Arachs and Bows as their primary weapons without any armor whatsoever.

As far as Cavalry comparisons go, do you really think the Arach stands any chance against the Lance and an Armored Knight? The only weapon the Doth'raki have at their disposal that could actually compete with armored knights, on foot or horseback, would be horse archers, and I'm sure that ceases to be a problem when you're able to vastly outnumber their horse archers with archers on foot.

Shit, I might as well close by saying the Doth'raki probably don't even have enough arrows to kill the Westerosi with, that's how badly the Doth'raki would be outnumbered, out armed, out informed, out resourced, etc etc etc...

On June 04 2012 08:44 toemn wrote:
Can anyone PM me a stream for the upcoming episode? I want to watch it live . I'd buy direct access from HBO but I can't from Germany.