Hey! This question won’t be ASOIAF-related and I hope you don’t mind, but you clearly know a lot about medieval history so I hope you’ll answer it anyway! It’s to do with something I saw on the show Vikings. This is not a historically accurate show whatsoever, just loosely based on some Norse sagas, but this particular thing was beyond my belief. So, according to the storyline, a Mercian princess fights against her uncle and brother for the kingdom. Her troops sail up a river to fight them, and there are soldiers on both sides of the river (and no bridge nearby). It is quite obviously their “strategy” that they expect her fleet to come ashore on both banks, which quite obviously they don’t, and diminish one army while the other can do nothing but look on. I mean… this has got to be the stupidest strategy ever. And I’m wondering if it’s even in the widest realm of possibility that something like this actually could have happened, or is it just super sloppy writing (which would otherwise be not typical for Vikings)?
I haven’t watched Vikings, but I have read a few recaps and it seems to me that the show often doesn’t have the best tactics on display when it comes to battle sequences. The Saxons not burning the boats in S1E4, the general jobber tactics of the Northumbrians in S1E7, etc.
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