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re: ASOIAF "What if?" *spoilers*

Posted on 4/8/13 at 3:21 pm to
Posted by thatguy1892
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Posted on 4/8/13 at 3:21 pm to
All that plus, the Dothraki are a "kill the head the body will die" force. If Drogo goes down then in fighting will ensue and forces are split. Exactly what happened when he went brain dead.
Posted by Mr. Wayne
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Posted on 4/8/13 at 3:47 pm to
Thanks to this thread, I am just realizing something. Illyrio and Varys set up that marriage with the idea that they would make it to the 7 Kingdoms with a Dothraki horde to attempt to overthrow Robert Baratheon. Now personally, I think the knights of Westeros in their metal armor, castles, and modernized weapons would have won this war, but that it would have cost them a lot of supplies and men. But the victor doesn't even really matter. Whichever side won was sure to be severely weakened by the war and would be ill fit to fight off another threat. So a few year's pass and here comes Aegon Blackfyre "Targaryen" to claim the Iron Throne. Boom - Varys and Illyrio's original plan. Though it got torn to pieces when Drogo dies and dragons start flying around.

Posted by Matisyeezy
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Posted on 4/8/13 at 4:45 pm to
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All that plus, the Dothraki are a "kill the head the body will die" force


That's a pretty massive assumption to make given the little information we have. Oh, so after Khal Drogo's death the Dothraki army factioned off because they didn't want to follow a foreign Khaleesi? Gee, what a shocker! They were in their homeland. You think they'd react in the same way if they were in the middle of a war in Westeros (on the opposite side of the ocean)? And in a war where they'd seen their brothers, cousins, uncles, fathers, et al. lose their lives they'd just fall to pieces? I just don't see that. The battlefield has a way of unifying troops that is difficult to quantify. At the point of Drogo's death they were, at least in regards to that engagement, unbloodied. Were they to have actually invaded that would have changed quickly.
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