GOT Question About The Army of the Dead?

No one KNOWS what the hell the Night King is capable of, yet. He's got powers of some sort.

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What am I missing?

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Go the 3ER thread and you'll find out

If the army of the dead gets south of the wall there is no telling how many people they can rise up from the dead. They will also turn anyone they defeat in battle. The white walkers have magic capability and they aren't dumb so I'm sure they'll have some sort of power or ability to take down a dragon. I hope we see a dragon fall so we can see a zombie dragon.

We have seen the NK use special powers in the past. He caused an ice earthquake at the TER hideout to break the magic.

In the last episode he waved his arms at the ravens flying overhead and it seemed to cause a draft or invisible wave that pushed them off course and away from him.

He has powers, not sure of the extent though.

The Giants have massive bows that will work like the Scorpion did on the dragons. And we saw at least two Giants. Plus like everyone else said, the Night King definitely has crazy powers, way beyond what the Children had. And the idea that they can raise any dead that aren't burned or killed by Valyrian steel or Dragonstone is a possible army multiplier for the NK

I think WW are more peaceful than humans. I have yet to see infighting, incest, torture, backstabbing, betrayal, lying, hungry for power, telling others to bend the knee.


WW seems more organized than humans, more simple. When you see all the bad behaviors of humans on GoT, you think about cheering for the WW. If humans win, all bad human behavior will just repeat, no matter who sits on the IT.

Nm

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Hodor

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whites

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Hodor is totally a wight now. That's a bummer to think about.

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This comes from a true Hodor. I watch the show only and don't research leaks or spoilers or really many theories so be patient, but I'm not sure I understand why we're supposed to be so terrified of the Army of the Dead.

We've established that the whites can be killed with fire, and we (humans) have three fire-breathing dragons

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I've also never read the books. Go back and watch the scenes again, especially Hardhomme.

There are 2 classes of bad guy: wights, which is just another way of saying undead or zombies; and White Walkers.

The wights are mindless and nigh indestructible. To stop them, you need to basically destroy them, not just something simple like stab one in the chest. Yes, dragonfire would do the trick. Mechanical destruction also would, by something like getting ridden down and trampled by a cavalry charge... but you don't want to ride into a group so big that it overwhelms the horses. They swarm like ants, and as we saw at Hardhomme, you can run them off a cliff and as long as their limbs don't break off, they get back up and attack.
I don't think dragonglass does anything at all to THEM. And I don't think Valarian steel blades do anything a regular blade wouldn't do. And there's a whole lot of them, between the good guys and the real targets.

So, vs the Dothraki, for instance: yes, the Dothraki can trample a group, and chop them with their curved blades etc. But their arrows would be useless, and they'd have to be careful not to get caught up in a big pack, to where they couldn't ride through. If they get bogged down, they're toast without armor.

Conversely, the White Walkers are vulnerable to Valarian steel and dragonglass. But as we saw in Hardhomme, with the one Jon fought, fire doesn't seem to bother them. I would submit that dragonfire doesn't either, until proven otherwise... you have to take them out with one of the above mentioned methods.

So that means you have to fight them. To do so, you have to get through the giant zombie horde, and even if you do, you actually have to land a hit.

If you're planning an attack right now, the smart move would be to know before it starts where the White Walkers would be, use the dragons to burn a path to them, and have a good group of Dorthraki armed with dragonglass arrows swoop in and fire volleys at them.
Even then, it's got problems- if there's enough zombies, they fill those paths in, and your riders are making suicide runs to get into arrow range... and if the WW use shields then that's likely going to not be effective.

The clear plan of a final battle would be a dragon rider with a Valarian sword coming in and landing... the dragon then burns the zombies to keep them back, while the rider duels the Night King, and beats him 1 on 1.

The wights are just berserker zombies.

The Others are depicted as way less a threat in show than in the book.

But I mean it's simply there exists a limited number of living with the means to destroy them. Fire walls do nothing they just ice em down. You need living fire or stone fire to kill them.

In the show others started out as orcs in the pilot, then they got the budget for better ones later.


Book Others brought the world into a near forever winter, rode ice-spider mounts, talked like crackling ice and had near invisibility from their magicked weapons and armor.