Game of Thrones

[brian brian]

Also glad to see that others picked up on the futility of the Charge of the Flaming Klingons in the Dark. But I didn’t see anyone here consider this: how, exactly, should you fight a Zombie Army?


Now I can’t stop thinking about the military strategy on those shows. Like the not-brilliance of sending your cavalry charging into certain annihilation in the lines of the Army of the Dead. Sure, the Dothraki would volunteer to do it, and a spoiling attack has its advantages (except to the soldiers being spoiled), but wouldn’t that be just sending your Dead opponents fresh reinforcements? I mean, make Zombies attack your lines seems like it would be Rule #1 in Zombie Warfare. But then fighting a creature that is already dead but can still be killed again, somehow, with just a sword stroke, never makes sense anyway.

[brian brian]

Overall, the whole series just steadily fizzled for me. I picked up the main points by Season 3: being born into a Royal House led to a life as likely to be nasty brutish and short as any other, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and every Hero has a tragic flaw. Yawn. The soap opera-esque nature of everything kept me watching till the end; that and wondering what would Tyrion say next.

But overall given the drab borrowing of so many things from history - Lancaster/York, Hadrian’s Wall (a few years too early or we would have never ceased hearing the pundit class draw parallels to the Orange One’s Wall Envy), Mongols, effete French with lots of money, the Inquisition, etc. etc. Eventually one wonders if Martin wasn’t inventing anything aside from the dragons and was simply borrowing stories of royal treachery in 13th century baronies somewhere that never made our history books because the outcomes only affected 50 square miles of land.

What the world needs now is a new Monty Python troupe to properly supply a silly take on it all.

[GaryChildress]

Was talking to a friend today who is always up on all the latest weird news. Apparently there are now GOT therapy counselors to help people get over the fact that the series has ended. That show must be like crack or something! [X(]

[brian brian]

So, with all these battles all through many seasons of the show, did the marketing licensing ever include any actual games of these battles?

Or just a straight up, yes, Game of Thrones or War of the Five Kings across all of Westeros?

The old Avalon Hill games Shogun, or Dune, or assuredly many others in the history of wargaming could serve as an intriguing model. There could be plenty of options for both maneuvering military units, temporary? Diplomacy and back-stabbing, random events or cards one can play - “Oh, look, I have the Valar Morghulis card and assassins just hit your field commander” or what have you, who can hire the Golden Horde or hypnotize the Dothraki into visiting Westeros or which House suddenly has an internal schism (Iron Islanders particularly unstable) etc., etc.

Unfortunately I figure if that were to happen today it would just be a slapped together stab at Axis & Allies:Westeros, or even worse, Risk.

[RFalvo69]

Have you checked the GOT mod for Crusader Kings II? I never did, but I heard that many people bought the game so to be able to play it.

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ORIGINAL: brian brian

So, with all these battles all through many seasons of the show, did the marketing licensing ever include any actual games of these battles?

Or just a straight up, yes, Game of Thrones or War of the Five Kings across all of Westeros?

The old Avalon Hill games Shogun, or Dune, or assuredly many others in the history of wargaming could serve as an intriguing model. There could be plenty of options for both maneuvering military units, temporary? Diplomacy and back-stabbing, random events or cards one can play - “Oh, look, I have the Valar Morghulis card and assassins just hit your field commander” or what have you, who can hire the Golden Horde or hypnotize the Dothraki into visiting Westeros or which House suddenly has an internal schism (Iron Islanders particularly unstable) etc., etc.

Unfortunately I figure if that were to happen today it would just be a slapped together stab at Axis & Allies:Westeros, or even worse, Risk.

GOT did inspire the licensing of a slot machine. Just played it the other night. Oh Daenerys! [;)]