![]() ![]() Jon’s plan is similar to how the English attempted to fight the battle of Agincourt, which was to force the French to come to them in a place with disadvantageous terrain. Knowing what we know about the two armies, is that a good plan? (In real life his name is Jeff, and he’s a captain in the Army.) The intent is less to dock realism points from the show - there was a giant there, after all - than to give a primer on the basics of medieval warfare, and how they may have differed from what we saw onscreen.Īt Jon’s war council, we get a glimpse of his initial strategy: Keep archers in the back, protect them with trenches in the flanks, and bait Ramsay into attacking. So we got in touch with BryndenBFish, a Song of Ice and Fire expert who writes about the military aspect of the series over at Wars and Politics of Ice and Fire. ![]() ![]() But Sunday night’s “Battle of the Bastards” was such a visceral, gut-punch affair that we couldn’t help but wonder how true it was to the realities of warfare in the Middle Ages. Writing about the historical accuracy of Game of Thrones is a tricky thing: The real medieval era didn’t have dragons flying around, and real castles never had to face the threat of an angry giant punching their gates in. ![]()
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