Play general for a second – you’re Euron Greyjoy. Let’s be generous and say you have 6,000 men divided among rowers and marines, and while your men are blooded, they’re not the from the Iron Fleet, so they’re not the best fighters the Iron Islands has to offer. You control the Shield Islands and the mouth of the Mander. Paxter Redwyne and his 40,000 men are headed your way with larger superior ships. How do you (without any sort of magical deus ex machina) defeat him?

I don’t think I do. I think that’s precisely why Euron’s turned to a magical deus ex machina. Generally speaking, habitual users of powerful hallucinogens aren’t the carefulest of generals.

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