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I touched on this previously, but it was another thing that eventually came to really bug me: the uniformity of GoT's armies. Each house fields thousands upon thousands of soldiers who aren't just professional fighters, but who are equipped to the exact same high standard beyond what should be...

Wasn't a reason that medieval armies were so small, besides the logistical and administrative constraints, that they were actually quite professional? Knights were trained in combat from childhood and weren't supposed to ever stop training until they died, after all. Mercenaries were obviously...

My classes on medieval (particularly medieval French) history in my last few years at university made watching GoT much harder, as if the show needed any more help with that at the time: this was around season 6. What struck me was how Westeros didn't just lack the institutions, limitations or...