The Kingsroad seems pretty good (good enough for Robert and Cersei to have wheelhouses on their way to Winterfell). Could Tywin have wheeled his troops down to the Trident instead of a force march after the Battle of the Green Fork, losing less men to exhaustion and getting more out of his mounted knights? What about amphibious boat-wagon hybrids? (Sorry for all this, it’s just the series seems to lack military engineering. There’s Tyrion’s boom chain and that’s about it…)

The Kingsroad is as good as it gets, but it still took Robert and Cersei two months to get from King’s Landing to Winterfell. 

Had Tywin wheeled his troops down the Kingsroad, it’s quite likely he would have been caught north of the Ruby Ford and been trapped between the Green Fork and the Mountains of the Moon. 

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