Quote by Seannewboy
Daneraes now has a bad ass tool kit at her disposal.
:pinch: Between her dragons and the Unsullied, I totally agree. BUT I honestly have to wonder how useful the Dothraki hordes are actually going to be.
The use of cavalry strikes me as something to put on the "AVOID" list when drawing up plans for a sea invasion of a large hilled city with narrow streets and fortified control points. A battle on wide open plains hell yeah, but using them for urban assault sacrifices literally everything that makes a large cavalry force useful: speed, maneuverability and the numbers to mow down everything in their path. We've not really seen
whether they're worth a damn without their horses.
In King's Landing, cavalry could be easily funneled into the city's alleys maybe 2-3 abreast (at most), then cut to pieces with pikes and archers from ground level and from every window and doorway along the path. Then of course their corpses (both men & horses) would just choke off the streets even more, impeding the progress of her Unsullied foot soldiers.
Danaerys, Tyrion, Varys and Grey Worm would surely have to understand this. Therefore, either the Dothraki are mainly along for what happens after King's Landing, or they will be employed mainly as foot soldiers in KL, negating their most effective use.
