The Battle of the Bastards!

about military strategy

he's too stupid to live.

He got done by the very tactic that he was going to use! Prat!

They should have all dropped down and stabbed their tootsies when they were getting kettled.

Almost forgot the dragons flame grilling the Slaver's ships, that was good too.

At least from my small amount of knowledge, it felt like a reasonable facsimile of actual pre-gunpowder war. Cavalry cutting through footsoliders, funnelling cavalry around the battlefield with trenches and pikemen (or at least that was supposed to happen but Snow gone done fucked up), shieldwalls, longbow archers mincing people with sustained, timed barrage fire.

I think Swiss mercenaries used the same pike tactics by whoever could afford them until they were ruled OP and nerfed by gunpowder

What was the deal with Littlefinger turning up to save the day? Was it just lucky timing?

Remember that letter that Sansa wrote a few episodes back? Of course you do! That was to the Rohirim The Kinghts of the Vale, led by Littlefinger

I'd forgotten that, but I guess when John Snow was saying that they had to attack now with the men they had because they would never ever have any more and she was just nodding along she must have forgotten too.

She wasn't expecting them to come, I don't think

After Wun-Wun kicked the gate in (just a wooden gate on the main castle in the North? Poor planning, chaps) it was Jon and the Free Folk who swarmed in, not the fresh Knights. I reckon The Vale didn't take a single casualty in that battle at all.

yea, because she was having a strop about not being listened to earlier and she turned out to be right. I felt for her. The range finding flayed men were a nice touch, too

Oh! No! She wasn't!

Ending with Ned Stark in a shower.

With massive tits.

Hasn't there been several cases of "huge friendly army somehow sneaks up at the last minute"?

At your Mums

Isn't that how most battles go in fiction? I am sure they did in LotR, definitely did it before at least twice in GoT, and I have some vague recollection of seeing it in a film or tv show about the Napoleonic wars!

Some of the little non-battle scenes were good, with conversations and that. I reckon Davos is going to kill Melisandre next week.

Also, next week we get the culmination of the Kings Landing stuff, I expect. #TeamCersei

So the guesswork was right. Jon is Dany's nephew. That certainly sets the stage for the later seasons. Does that mean he'll find some dragons at some point, I wonder?