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To: jonno

LOL! That battle was like ants fighting a nuclear bomb lol, awesome.


13 posted on 08/08/2017 11:14:00 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan taking office.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

It was like watching the The Battle of Gaugamela...when all of a sudden an F-15 Fighting Eagle shows up from behind the Persian’s lines to decimate Alexander’s army.


27 posted on 08/08/2017 11:31:46 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Armchair strategist that I might be, my approach to attacking the line with the dragon would be slightly different. I wouldn't have punched a hole in the line by flying directly at it. I would have started at one end of the enemy formation and flown along its length, and had the charging Dothraki on that side of the field do a hinge manuver and flank the line, attacking from the side while the enemy troops were still under frontal assault. Then I would have started at the other end and repeated the manuver. Then, if circumstances permitted I would hit the center of the line. (I don't remember the battle, but the hinge manuver was done in the Civil War.)

When Daenerys saw that first dragon arrow, she should have manuvered around the platform until she could blast it or until the ground troops could capture it. Foolish to attack it head on.

I would not have destroyed the loot train because if she wants to feed an army, it would be handy to have all that food and equipment to distribute.

All that being said, Bronn kept his wits about him, managing to impale a pursuing Dothraki with a spear, hitting the dragon with one of the arrows, and ostensibly saving Jaime from the flame thrower.

Can't wait for next week.

34 posted on 08/08/2017 11:47:18 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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