I’ve been trying to figure that out, too. I am by no means an expert in military strategy, but when the second sons showed up I was puzzled. What good is cavalry inside a wall?
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Sorties could be a thing as has been said, but besides that I handwaved it for myself thus : even dismounted and on top of a wall, they’re still 2.000 more bodies in the way, and being all cav means they could simply have answered Yunkai’s open bid for private military contractors faster than more plodding companies. Their being mounted also means the Yunkai-ites hired themselves both additional defence AND a buffet should the siege drag out !
On Dany’s side however, yeah, cav is kinda shitty beyond the simple manpower angle. Could be useful to prevent any supply runs from sneaking inside/refugees from fleeing I suppose.
Much more likely to be a buffet for for the dragons. Also count in the added stampede risk when said dragons swoop in from the sky raining hellfire. It’s a bad idea.
Why would that be troubling ? I don’t know how they do things in Israel, or the States for that matter, but here in France Bastille day, WW2 Victory day and WW1 victory day are all state-sponsored Get Shitfaced days. So are Pentecost Monday and Easter Monday for that matter. Also International Worker’s Day, Ascension, Assumption…
Any state holiday is National Get Shitfaced Day, really. If y’all only get Purim, you’re missing out
If dragons were all THAT vulnerable to arrows, I doubt they would be the superweapon that they uniformly seem to be regarded as. Of course, small, young ones like Danerys might be more vulnerable than full grown dragons.
Full grown dragons are super weapons, the book Davos was reading said Visenya’s dragon could swallow a horse. Dany’s dragons could swallow a squirrel, a group of archers could take them down easily.
Man, if “can kill a horse” is superweapon territory these days, Westeros is quite fucked. Maybe they all live in the shadow of trebuchet fear :D.
Seriously though, full grown dragons might well be medieval WMDs, but Dany’s runts aren’t anywhere near scary yet. Even torching Astapor’s haughty disrespectful whip guy took a bit of doing. If Yunkai can’t deal with one roof or a dozen militiamen catching on fire here and there, they don’t deserve to own a fortified city.
Yeah, I mean they haven’t said so explicitly, but dragon scales are usually pretty hard to penetrate. It’s possible they’ll break with that tradition in this world, but doubtful (IMHO).
She should be using that fireproof thing more - it’s a pretty good trick. Just light herself on fire in front of their leaders and walk away naked and unscathed. Say she’s a “God of Fire” and then watch them shit themselves.
I’ve been trying to figure that out, too. I am by no means an expert in military strategy, but when the second sons showed up I was puzzled. What good is cavalry inside a wall?
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In fact, they would be useful for sorties and raids.
Also, if the siege last long, you can eat the horses before resorting to dogs, cats, rats and people.
That said, did they mention there was only cavalry in the Second sons company?
Oh, we party on holidays - and we have tons of them, too. More than you do, probably. Of course, being who we are, we tend to eat more than we drink, but still, we know how to let loose.
… except on Memorial Day and Holocaust Memorial Day. They’re yearly national days of mourning - all restaurants, bars, clubs, movie theaters and other entertainment venues are closed by law, and the TV does nothing but show documentaries and list the names of the dead, and the radio plays nothing but sad songs (it’s even a semi[-official genre - “Memorial Day Songs”). Partying on Memorial Day, to an Israeli, would be an obscene act. Like pissing on a grave.
Of course, I understand completely that other countries do things differently. It just seems weird to me, is all.
I don’t think it’s fair to call Memorial Day a “get shitfaced day” as a general proposition. It’s more a get together with friends and family for a wholesome good time day. The people who see it as primarily a “get shitfaced day” would see any weekend as that.
When it comes right down to it, Americans refuse to mourn on a public level after a certain amount of time has passed, say, 150 years (Memorial Day) or 90 years (Veterans Day). If Sept. 11 were to become one of the standard public holidays, I’m sure that eventually it too will cease to be primarily about mourning.
Of course all of the known world from Westeros to the continent Dany’s on and anyplace else ships go should be making a limited “Let’s put aside our differences temporarily, find out how to kill dragons, and then let’s kill some dragons” Accords now, because one thing that is certain is that her dragons aren’t going to get any smaller and are probably easier to kill now than when grown. She has one more of them than the Empire had Death Stars and while the Empire didn’t win that wasn’t a lot of consolation to Alderaan.
