Look how far is Winterfell from The Eyre. How did they managed to get just in time for the battle?
Through the power of shitty writing.
>>71070270
Ships to White Harbour
Littlefinger says that they're at Moat Cailin when he meets with Sansa earlier in the season
>>71070270
That's like a day or two away. Do you even boat travel?
There is literally no way you could move 2000 knights into the North without anyone noticing.
Even White Harbour to Winterfell is 1500 km.
By land that's 2500km throught the Twins, Moat Cailin, etc.
GoT is cartoonified medieval times
Realism isnt the rule, its window dressing.
>>71070722
Yeah why didnt someone just call Ramsey. Phones were totally a thing right? Not like you have to send a bird days in advance or anything. No sir.
>Ramsay has intel on Stannis' movements and knows exactly where his small ass army has made camp
>Has absolutely no idea that the Vale with its huge ass army was stationed at Moat Cailin and has entered the North
>>71070536
>>71070636
this
better question is how did the iron born get to Volantis in one episode and then Meereen by the next
>>71070794
CIA explicitly told Sansa the entire Vale army was parked right at Moat Cailin, the central gateway to the North under Bolton control, in like episode 4, which was at least several weeks ago within the context of the show. Somehow he had them there in siege of a castle we're told over and over is impenetrable from the south but moved them through (?) without anyone noticing.
It's 100% bullshit and only the most delusional of fanboys can defend it.
>>71070270
The show writers doesn't care about distance.
Way back in season 3, Melisandre got from Dragonstone to the middle of the Riverlands and back in like a week.
At least George is autistic about this kind of stuff.
>>71070905
Ramsay was expecting Stannis, pretty sure Stannis even sent ravens calling him a bastard and to surrender
he wasn't expecting CIA and CIA is a master of spies
>>71070794
So you admit there are methods of communication. By.. raven even.
Are you now saying that the Vale host was faster than a raven can fly? Think carefully now.
>>71070722
>>71071029
The Northern Lords that don't help Jon and Sansa but don't join Ramsay, Karstark, and Umber wouldn't necessarily have sent a raven to the Boltons, much less try and stop the Arryn army. Did Ramsay maintain a garrison at Moat Cailin?
>>71071026
>>71070905
That stuff happened while Roose was alive. Ramsay is unquestionably dumber. It could be that Roose did all the work (getting intel) apart from going out to burn shit with twenty good men
>>71071191
Yes. Moat Cailin has been occupied by the Boltons for like three seasons now. Please pay attention.
>>71070780
You mean salad dressing.
>>71071262
No Ironborn =/= Occupied
It's a ruined castle. Did the Boltons leave a garrison there? There is not normally a garrison because it's a ruin. Did they task anyone with holding it, or just kill the ironborn and return home?
>>71071392
No one can enter the North without passing through Moat Cailin.
Ask yourself, and this time really try to use whatever occupies the space between your ears, why would they NOT garrison the gateway to the North.
>>71071191
Dilated pupils, half closed eyes, scratching nose in a weird way...
Hmmmmm sansa must be using milk of the puppy powder formula
>>71070507
>Through the power of shitty writing.
THISSSSSSSSSSSSS
Wait a minute, the Arbor is part of Dorne?
I thought it was part of the Reach...
>>71070270
Littlefinger's teleportation device
>>71071462
It's canon that Moat Cailin is a ruin that sits on the causeway. Prior to Robb Stark's march south, it is never manned. The ironborn take it, sit in it, get flayed, and no one mentions a garrison being left there in the show or the books when Roose and the Freys march up the causeway.
Duplo and Dingus have also conveniently established that Ramsay is a huge retard and would not bother with obviously good choices like garrisoning Moat Cailin.
>>71071724
>"The Arbor is a golden island[1] off the southwestern-most part of Westeros, ruled by House Redwyne. It is considered part of the Reach, and is separated from the mainland by the Redwyne Straits. It is protected by the Redwyne fleet, the largest fleet of the Seven Kingdoms."
the map is wrong.
If Moat Caitlin is such an important location, why has it been inhabited for centuries??
>>71072124
Because it's not a great castle to occupy during peacetime. It's three towers on a road through a swamp. If you garrison it, though, no one can attack from the south. It just sucks in every aspect other than being great against southern invaders, which is why no one garrisons it except when they have to
>>71070270
We're not really told how much time passes in GOT
>>71072124
i believe its all swamp land
>>71070270
Musta used all those ships Stannis abandoned.>>71070270
>>71072292
>that fire rises one
i want it
>>71070270
>he doesnt know of CIA's teleportation device
The answer to every question about this shitshow is that the writers don't give a fuck. That's it.
>>71072292
It's literally the only good road to the North though. Presumably someone would occupy it and tax merchants who wanted to come North, similar to control of the Twins.
>>71070270
They rode on Eagles.
