The Drunkard

I'm glad they're (for now) still going ahead with them. Wealth is made too easily from hoarding assets and not from the value of your own labour, and this is a small step toward countering that. 

1 hour ago, Ser Rodrigo Belmonte II said:

Umm why would you say this ? Historical games were their OG bread and butter. I want this and empire 2 badly. 

I really like the Warhammer games but there are heaps of features they've stripped out from the older games that would make me skeptical of a new Medieval game. The battles and world map are pretty great but the game is otherwise extremely simple. I'd also be wary of them trying to gouge the player base given that seems to be a recent trend.

On the other hand, I heard Three Kingdoms was pretty good and was received pretty well prior to all its DLC being cancelled, although I never played it.

Man, this and the Theon chapter should've been included in the current books, they're much better cliffhangers.

Excited to see Euron wage his magic war. Stannis and Melisandre were like a taste of what someone could do with magic on their side, and now you've got a man with zero moral compunctions wielding anything he can get his hands on.

Upon logging in today the format of the forum is completely changed. Looks incredibly basic and the colour scheme is blue/black/white rather than the usual orange/grey/white. Navigation is a lot harder and I'm unable to quote anyone.

Don't know if this is known or unique to me.

eta: works fine now.

In the absence of a rant thread:

I just realized they didn't include Dany's violent diarrhea scene. So many GoT related gifs could have spawned from that.

Stannis fans should just jump off the Baratheon ship. D&D confirmed that it's straight out of the books.

They said that Shireen gets burned and it's the culmination of the talk about kings blood, not that Stannis would order it.

It literally cannot be taken 'straight out' of the books as when in the same scenario book-Stannis refused to burn some random unbeliever with whom he had zero connection, let alone his only child and heir.

http://i.imgur.com/qVMEp.gif

I wish the R&R thread were still open.

Just rewatched the preview -did anyone else cringe at Stannis' line?

"We march to victory or we march to defeat. " Way to cover all the bases. He follows it up with "Either way we move forward " but it's still sounds clunky.

I didn't mind it. It's not as smooth as "we will march, and we will free Winterfell … or die in the attempt" but it's treason to include lines taken straight from the book, apparently, even if they're written perfect for tv.

Dorne is terrible. I hope it plays a huge role in the books otherwise they should have cut it. It is SO BAD.

Yeah, agreed. I think I've withheld judgment about whether or not Dorne deserved to be in so far, but it's hard to see why the Riverlands stories wouldn't be a better choice. Jaime could stick to his storyline, Brienne to hers, Edmure+Blackfish and Beric+Thoros+Stoneheart could do their things rather than being disappeared for a few seasons (or else just cut), instead of a completely new continent being introduced along with a heap of bad characters that drag decent characters down with them.

I think this is the second episode ever that I've given a rating above the average.

I apologise if this was discussed here before, I did not read all the posts. why is ramsey worried about his claim if he has already been legitimized?

Bastard claims are dubious. Roose could theoretically name his trueborn son his heir ahead of Ramsay, or he could, knowing Roose, just have Ramsay killed. It's just safer for Ramsay to be his only child.

What on earth was that Dany scene? That's some season 3+4 Stannis treatment.

Hey, Stannis finally brought up the White Walkers. I was wondering if that aspect was being dropped.

HALLELUJAH!

Probably had more sex in one night than Stannis and Selyse did in seventeen years.

You are probably right it is strange he didn't choose to save his people but how many would have died in the war between Stannis and Bolton.

Less than all of them.

6.

That's actually a pretty cool bit of medievalism. What with the mortality rates in Ye Olde Times, infants did not really count as children until they survived long enough. Cersei has three children who survived infancy, which means that she has three children.

lol

I knew I recognized that sheriff. Only about three/four episodes in so far.

Started watching Secret State, so far I've seen Tywin, Stannis, Edmure and Jory.

8

I really enjoyed this episode. Just one thing

How did Stannis' army magically cross he wall ?

Using boats.

What doesn't make sense is that pincer attack.

Oh, and 7/10. The Dany and Wall scenes were quite good, the rest was fairly average. Jaime and Tyrion shouldn't have been changed.

Eh?

Haters are in full force huh? They should just shut up and deal with it.

You may want to grab a kleenex and cry it out, because 'haters' have as much a right to post as you do.

According to George RR Martin:

"Tomorrow night, on HBO. Neil Marshall returns, with a battle even bigger than "Blackwater." Should rival or surpass any battle ever seen before on television. Keep your swords sharp."

Huh, well, at least we may know why episode 10 has the highest $/second sequence in the show, those horses ought to cost a lot.

That's pretty much the exact same thing that happens in the book.

Mance made his position clear, though, that neither he nor his people would be bending the knee to a southern king or obeying their laws. An agreement didn't seem likely to be reached at all.

This show, jesus.

So I take it this episode is a good one.