Game of Thrones Season 7 discussion (spoilers for any aired episode)

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(07-20-2017, 10:06 AM)michaelsean Wrote: This is from someone who just watches the show, but doesn't always know what's going on exactly.  Is everyone else playing for 2nd place, because one of them has three dragons and 100,000 highly dedicated soldiers.

But how long can she hold them when she doesn't let them rape and pillage? The Dothraki are about 100k, but let's just assume it's 50% able bodied men. That's 50k. She HAD 8k unsullied, but that was before taking Mereen, dealing with the Sons of the Harpy, and then dealing with the Masters. Let's say she's got 7k now.So Dany is still looking strong with 57k fighters and three dragons.

Her ancestors just used Dragons and less than 2k people. They first had support from those around Dragonstone/Future Kings Landing and then got more support when their dragons burned holds down. First they burned down Harrenhall, where Harren Hoard (leader of the Iron Islands and Riverlands) lived. They made the Tullys the new lords of the Riverlands. Then they defeated the Storm Lords in the Stormlands, and Baratheon, the bastard brother of Aegon, married the Storm King's daughter and took the Storm Lands. The Lannisters and Gardeners (who ruled the Reach) got an army of 50k together but dragons burned 30% of it. The Lannisters knelt and the Gardeners died. Aegon put the Tyrells in charge of the Reach. The North bent the knee, even though they had twice as many men as the new Aegon forces combined. The Arryns assumed they were safe behind the bloody gate, so Aegon flew a dragon and landed. The Vale submitted. 

So that in context, if Dany chooses to burn people, she will easily win. IDK if she will though.