If you were Stannis Baratheon how would you take Winterfell?

That's what he does in the book I think

>Dragonstone
>still in Baratheon hands

Considering Stannis is meant to be a master strategist I can only put it down to the writers wanting to end the show in two seasons and deciding to have him do something out of character to kill him off.

>What was he thinking?
Post Season 4 writing

All signs point to getting Winds eventually but never getting Dream or if we do get it Martin won’t be the author

>Are we ever getting a conclusion to the series, bros?
Series are actually good. 9000 times better than TV.
Fricking left on cliffhanger.
All that Arya character development but no putting her into action
Can we strangle that lazy fat frick?

>Instead, he ignored all the minor players and went straight for Winterfell in the worst weather with a smaller force and staved.

He took a slight detour and recruited some wilderness clans and then hooked up with the Stark loyalists outside Winterfell, he doesn't have the luxury of doing a thorough campaign during winter with no logistical base.

>He could be a Russian General Staff poke with a dumb move like that.

Or German General Staff lol

If Stannis can take Winterfell and defeat the Boltons and Freys, Manderly and Umber at least will assist him, if not all the Northern lords in fact. Manderly has tons of supplies and there will be time and space to consolidate, maybe get reinforcements from the Iron Bank. Winterfell is a strategic location and rallying point especially in winter.

>The split goes back way farther than Aegon's conquest, as detailed in Old Nan Tales Vol. III. The split comes from House Goodmen's ancestral belief that good men, godly men, would be the saviors of the realm. Fairly early in their history, however, their cadet branch which had taken up residence at a castle called the "Goodkeep," northwest of the Dreadfort, came to believe that the Prophecy of the Goodmen actually referred only to one man, the Goodman, and not multiple good men - though some say that the Goodmens of the Goodfort were the cadet branch and the Goodmans were the original. The feud grew and grew for a thousand years, and the two branches of House Goodmen grew farther apart and more bitter towards each other. It finally culminated in the splitting of the house during Aegon's conquest, when Lord Goodmen bent the knee to Aegon. The Lord of the Goodkeep would not abide, and declared that his house was foreverafter separate from House Goodmen. Thus, House Goodman was founded, and not a fortnight later the forces of the Goodkeep and the Goodfort met and did battle beneath the snowy boughs of the Goodwood. It was said that the Goodstream ran red that day, the spilt goodblood of thousands of Goodmen and Goodman bannermen flowing out into the Shivering Sea. It is said that Lord Goodmen and Lord Goodman perished on each other's swords, cursing their foes' families for generations afterwards with their dying breaths.

>stannis is basically a Putin
moronic redditor tourist ASOIAFlet

Stannis held storms'end for a year whitout any supply
He crushed the Greyjoy fleet during the Greyjoy rebellion
He was going to win at KL if tywin didnt intervene
He is always leading his troops in person even if everything goes wrong

He is nothing like putin you idiot homosexual

Mance rayder

It should be renly that swallow his pride and follow stannis

Works fine, but it's essentially just fancy chain mail. Might be a tiny bit lighter than chain, but it protects against everything just as good as it, but not any better. Same strength against slashes, decent against thrusts/arrows and weakness to blunt force. My favorite part is actually the shoulders, where you're unlikely to catch a thrust, the sewn in plates could really help against a blow.

That said it looks great and that's important. Saves you the weight of having some gay ass tabard

Sir, they are currently freezing and starving to death, they cannot wait for diseases.

The same reason PrepHole and PrepHole threads show up all the time on /k/. At least be happy OP made the attempt to obfuscate his thread with a /k/ related opening post.

PrepHole a shit

Probably showhomosexualry

If you were that worried about archers couldn't dragons just drop burning shit from way outside bow range?

Frick, just get a huge bag of rocks and blast them before you drop them, that dragon fire is so hot they'd probably still be red hot when they hit the ground.

For Daenerys, the comparison is actually quite fitting.

>impulsive
>neurotic
>mentally unstable
>messiah complex
>incapable of understanding what actually caused her dynasty's downfall and goes about repeating the same mistakes, sometimes on a larger scale

Both are good but they are different
ASOIAF is more "sandbox", it feels like reading history of an fantasy universe while LOTR is like a long awesome adventure/journey

>How do we defeat dany the prostitute and her flying abominations
It's easy, wait for her to be moronic or for you to develop hypersonic Ballista and teleporting boats.

Gigacucked
Stannis is the rightful heir
Renly is a war virgin while stannis is a veteran commander and imagine if people discovered he was gay
Renly should have submitted to his brother and accept to be lord of storms'end

He's an excellent military commander and would make a fine general, but his weakness has always been his lack of charisma and diplomacy.

He is the chosen one

>wipe out the only people who can ride dragons
>in a world with dragons
Targs are like nukes, if someone else has Targs and dragons you're fricked mate

This
Frick targatroons

>wipe out the only people who can ride dragons
>in a world with dragons
Targs are like nukes, if someone else has Targs and dragons you're fricked mate

Targs are notoriously very shit at war when they dont have dragons anymore
Aegon would have never even beaten the Durrondons whitout Dragons

This is why im so hesitant to write. Ive planned most of my story and have about 12 books worth of varying lengths but im afraid it will be flawed as frick and if I attempt to fix it i end up like GRRM. IWNBAn author...

GRRM let his mind think a lot before writing the evolution of the story
Thats why it takes so much times
But if you write from the beginning, it shouldnt take long

>Has anyone suggested tunneling underneath to get inside the walls?
>tunneling
>in Winter
>while his army is starving to death

Do we actually know anything about the Vale's army?
I think if you go by the starting strengths and what they manage to achieve, the Lannisters have the most impressive single force. Despite not being stated to be terribly strong, it consistently beats off forces stated to be some of the greatest in the seven kingdoms (the North and Riverlands, Stormlands and Reach) unless the crownlands have some gigachad forces of their own, the Westerlands constantly punch above their weight. Might just come down to superior leadership.

By the end of the latest book, I think the Vale and Dorne might be the top contenders just by virtue of being the only ones not battered by bloody wars.

Reach is the largest army, as it's the largest realm by populus
Westerlands is probably the best equipped because of all the gold in the area. Plus under Tywin at least have excellent leaders.
The Vale has a deep cavalry tradition, and stupid strong defenses
The Stormlands have a long history of butting heads with their neighbours before the conquest, and Dorne for 200 years after, and there are are a bunch of lords called the Marcher lords to give you an idea of their martial prowess. Also the Baratheons are generally very lead-by-the-front sorts, not just Robert.
Iron Islands are a naval power and know it. The Reach and Westerlands aren't slouches in this field but I.I. are focused on it. Their land combat is more about raiding and pillaging than setpiece battles.
The Riverlands are the crossroads of the continent and have probably seen the most war, but while this may improve martial skill it also means they get ravaged a lot and may not have the raw resources or manpower compared to the others.
Dorne can run effective guerrilla campaigns but obviously this means letting the enemy into your territory.
The North are probably the hardiest soldiers, putting up with the toughest conditions. I know "hard times make hard men" is an historical meme but there's something to it in Westeros.

>GRRM is an historylet
GRRM already pointed out that cities in Essos survive because Dothrakis can't into siege

The Dothraki have no IRL counterpart we can really look at, George based them on cultures he had no understanding of and left it the shallow war mongerer group they are today. Basically anything in Essos doesnt make sense on even a cursory glance and it'll only give you headache if you try to see how anything makes sense there, like where do the millions of slaves come from? The free cities and Slavers bay deal in producing trained slaves but the Dothraki must be getting the fresh ones somewhere, but as we saw with Tyrions pov while traveling from Pentos to Volantis, there's no towns between Pentos and Volon Therys which makes no sense on its own but even less so with how the dothraki manage to make the slaves spawn from this wasteland

>Vimes sat in his office, reading the clacker dispatch Carrot had just given him.
>"So they're in a civil war..."
>"Yes sir."
>"Because the Queen's children aren't the King's."
>"Seems so, sir."
>"Do we know whose children they are?"
>"...her brother, sir."
>Commander Vimes blinked. "...takes all sorts. Oh and they've angered a noble family or three who are trying to break away."
>"Yes, sir."
>"And they're ignoring the reports of claimants to the throne getting ready to invade, or the growing threat from the North."
>"Appears so, sir."
>"Typical. So busy looking for the damn chair to sit on they forget why they bother. And is it just me, or are they all..."
>"All what, sir?"
>"Dour. Nobody's laughing maniacally at their plotting, they're all bloody miserable."
>Carrot shrugged. "They take it seriously, sir."
>"Too seriously."