Westeros: A Game of Thrones.

**Kagemusha** · 12-25-2011, 20:59

I was just pointing out how such speculation is unnecessary in public. Like i said in my first post concerning the issue. I am quite sure JHT will not make this game a copy of the books.We will know when things will be unraveled.
You can react to issues when you have proper information to base your actions upon. If indeed Frey´s would decide to reject you passing the Twins.I am sure you Stark´s can come up with ideas how to deal with that.

**Greyblades** · 12-25-2011, 21:02

You can react to issues when you have proper information to base your actions upon. If indeed Frey´s would decide to reject you passing the Twins.I am sure you Stark´s can come up with ideas how to deal with that.

I never really understood that, couldnt Robb have just said "screw it" and walked upstream to the green fork's source and crossed there, or heck they could go around alltogether by heading west of greywater watch and following the forest edge south and end up in the same place.

**Kagemusha** · 12-25-2011, 21:05

Originally Posted by Greyblades

I never really understood that, couldnt Robb have just said "screw it" and walked upstream to the green fork's source and crossed there, or heck they could go around alltogether.

My thoughts exactly.

**White_eyes:D** · 12-25-2011, 21:13

With a medieval army you would suffer some pretty horrible attrition from that by not using the Kings road. Not to mention that North men are not good swimmers with the armor and weapons.

Edit: Speed wins the day, the longer your army is in the field the more angry your vassals get.(They pay upkeep after all)

**Kagemusha** · 12-25-2011, 21:19

Originally Posted by White_eyes:D

With a medieval army you would suffer some pretty horrible attrition from that by not using the Kings road. Not to mention that North men are not good swimmers with the armor and weapons.

Edit: Speed wins the day, the longer your army is in the field the more angry your vassals get.(They pay upkeep after all)

Are you for real? Maybe a quick look at a map should tell you a bit different story:

http://gameofthrones.net/images/West...f_westeros.jpg

Kings road goes from North to South passing Twins from the East. If anything going to Twins was getting off from main road.

**White_eyes:D** · 12-25-2011, 21:24

Why did Robb go to the Twins then?

Did he just want to avoid the Main road?? There is more then enough room to just go around. I am just going to guess he wanted some supplies from them or something

I found this answer...

1) Because if you'll look at the map, the Twins is northernmost crossing. It is mentioned in the books that if they go any further south, they will have to fight past Tywin, and Robb is very uncertain about his chances of beating him (not to mention how he would have to ignore Jaime's host.

**Kagemusha** · 12-25-2011, 21:27

Originally Posted by White_eyes:D

Why did Robb go to the Twins then?

Did he just want to avoid the Main road?? There is more then enough room to just go around. I am just going to guess he wanted some supplies from them or something

Only logical thing i can think off is that he was worried about leaving a possibly hostile force behind to harass his line of supply, but as we are not dealing wiht history, but rather fantasy.We should not dwell too deep into it.

Edit: Just read your edit. So it was done to get to Jaime. Good catch.

**Beskar** · 12-26-2011, 00:39

You know that they would have to march an extra 400-500 miles to go "around" using the King's Road, straight into Tywin Lannister's army which was stationed there, compared to going over the twins, cutting 400-500 miles from their journey to relieve Riverrun?

**Kagemusha** · 12-26-2011, 00:50

Originally Posted by Tiaexz

You know that they would have to march an extra 400-500 miles to go "around" using the King's Road, straight into Tywin Lannister's army which was stationed there, compared to going over the twins, cutting 400-500 miles from their journey to relieve River-run.

I got that from a 2 second glance at the map, it is quite glaring, I am surprised you couldn't see it at all.

And you are saying that march on broken terrain would be faster then via road? Marching first some 100 miles offroad to Twins and then some 400 miles at broken terrain towards South with also in mountaneus terrain.So in total about 500 miles in offroad and broken terrain, compared to 700-800 miles via major road. Ive marched enough during my military service to understand the difference between marching at road and marching at offroad terrain.

**Kival** · 12-25-2011, 21:22

Not anything happens as in the books but anything which happens before the start of the game happened exactly as in the books - that's at least what I understand. So you can guess actions to some degree on the history of Houses/families etc. - The frame is defined by the books but not the exact actions. And as probably the played houses act differently to some degree the npcs will have to act differently too. But I doubt they will have a strong change in aims or believes etc. At least not without actions of the players towards it. Anyway: Let's just see what's coming. So far I see no big problem. I really don't know how Tywin will know anything about the "false gods" but so far it's not a real problem.