Author: stevenattewell

So aside from Marvel and the MCU, Do you have any other superpower content that you like? You have noted somewhere your lack of interest for DC, but are there any Valiant or Image stories that you follow. Or novel type works like Worm.

I read quite a bit of Image – Saga, WicDiv, the Goddamned, Southern Bastards, Paper Girls, Injection, Black Magick – but I don’t know whether you’d call that superheroes necessarily. 

And it’s not that I’m disinterested in DC – I read Batgirl and Gotham Academy and read Black Canary when they published it, I’ve read a bit of Super-Sons, etc. – I’m just disinterested in DC events/continuity. 

Valient – read some Bloodshot. It was cool. 

Someone told me that the Kingswood Brotherhood once kidnapped Elia Martell. Is this true? What happened?

Not quite:

Ulmer, stooped and grey-bearded and loose of skin and limb, stepped to the mark and pulled an arrow from the quiver at his waist. In his youth he had been an outlaw, a member of the infamous Kingswood Brotherhood. He claimed he’d once put an arrow through the hand of the White Bull of the Kingsguard to steal a kiss from the lips of a Dornish princess. He had stolen her jewels too, and a chest of golden dragons, but it was the kiss he liked to boast of in his cups.

If Ulmer is to be believed, they just robbed her. 

If Edmure did use the Ford defence strategy you suggest and managed to bottle up the Lannisters, and thus stopping the riverlands from getting run through and wrecked, long enough for Robb to arrive with reinforcements and thus leaving the Lannisters stuck in the west, what is the Lannisters’ next moves? What does each of Tywin/Kevan/Jaime/Clegane, Tyrion/Clansmen, and Cersei/Joffrey do instead as their next move? Likewise, what does each of the other factions like Stannis, Renly, Varys, and Littlefinger do differently?

Well, I imagine Tywin, Kevan, Jaiime, and Tyrion would re-orientate their armies to get down the Gold Road to defend King’s Landing from both north and south.

As for the other factions, well, Renly might walk more gently with the Starks since they’d have more troops in the field/be less bogged down in their own lands. But otherwise I see stuff happening close to OTL – Stannis still needs Renly’s army, etc.

Something that has always bugged me: since ancient or medieval cities/castles or strongholds could expect very little mercy or restraint from the besiegers if they resisted for long, why didn’t everyone surrender as soon as an army arrived to siege them ? Or very soon afterwards ? When dealing with forces that have a reputation for not honoring terms of surrender, resistance is understandable; but why stick your neck out in other cases ?

Because you think you can win. The reason why people built so many castles in the Middle Ages is that most sieges were not successful for the besiegers.