I'll never forget the chills I got when I first watched this and heard the music as he unsheathes his sword and walks toward the enemy

They did Stannis wrong. He should have won the battle.

This was when I stopped watching

Achilles : Imagine a king who fights his own battles. Wouldn't that be a sight?

YOUR GRACE, DON'T FORGET TO USE THE POWER OF THE LORD OF LIGHT! IT'S "Ctrl+Alt+F4"!

A thousand dragons to the person who can name the soundtrack

I like how they had half the army moving forward with Stannis and the other half running away,

the lord of light musical motif makes the whole scene

One of my favorite scenes

Bronn, Stannis, and Tyrion (early seasons) are the best three characters

We march to victory or we march to defeat but we go forward only forward.

This shit is Jon's fault. In the end he had to go against Bolton either way, but alone, weak and outnumbered. It should've been Stannis and Jon and half of the north bannermen against that scoundrel in Winterfell.

His stupidity led to his own downfall.

No scouts?? No army should be marching around blindly. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Where was davos

2 things about this that really got to me: 1. Quite a few of those horsemen were the sellsword deserters who took the horses from Stannis 2. Maybe half of his army started fleeing (morale failure) as it was going to be a total rout Bad way to go...

Stannis and his army is alive, which includes: 3,500 northmen (Glovers, Mormonts and mountain clans 1,400 southron knights and men-at-arms 400 Umber green boys in the vanguard Total: about 5,300 men 456 Karstark men, disloyal, it is unknown whether or not they will fight for Stannis after Arnolf Karstark's treachery is discovered Roose Bolton had send : 2000 Frey men, including 500 knights 300 Manderly men, apparently 100/200 knights/men-at-arms Total: about 2300 men. Stannis army is sitting beside a frozen lake with a sort of watch tower. He is waiting and eager to lure Roose Boltons Vanguard to charge at his army who are mostly Footmen. During the charge the Manderly's will backstab the frey's and aid Stannis. It will be Stannis First Victory to WInterfell

Ramsay was not even a major character in the books but the showrunners for some reason felt so compelled to kill stannis off in the dumbest way possible while lifting up ramsay to be a new big bad

I dont man.....but it wouls have made much more sense to march the army to Deepwood Motte or to the Last Hearth and wait out the winter to gather more soldiers and supplies. Camping at a forested area and then marching with less than half the original force is something only Dick and Dong would do.

Brodie should’ve got another shot at acting in something similar. What a great Stannis

Me in mount and blade facing an army with only 200 men........

the way this battle was shown is just stupid. you're not telling me a very skilled commander like Stannis would just be surprised of a massive mounted army appearing 1 minute before combat. it would have been much more believable if they just said 90% of his army deserted and they prepared for some glorious last stand

At the end of the day, Stannis would have easily had the support of way more powerful people. For example. What would the Boltons have done against Godzilla? Omni Man? Straight up Goku? Yeah bet you never considered that.

I love and hate Stannis, hate him for killing his brother, love him for loving his daughter, love him for helping John Snow and the Nightwatch, love him for attacking Kings landing, hat him for burning innocent people and his daughter

Stannis army excist out of the most loyal man.

The showrunners did Stannis, Daenery, Jon Snow, The Tyrell's so dirty

*Where was his cavalry?*

The one true king made from salt and smoke

Stannis is the same actor who plays Edward Longshanks in the Robert the Brus movie right? Cuz his voice looks like the same

regardless on how his ending will be when the winds of winter ever comes out, I don't think Stannis in the books or TV show would have attempted this with such numbers, like Rob he was a good strategist, he would have took kings landing, but didn't think the Lannisters and Tyrells would unite, and defeating the wildlings despite being outnumbered there, using a pincer move, I get it the show just wanted him gone for whatever reason, I liked Stannis too, the show ruined him near the end like others

Why did they have to destroy stannis character. The man is Just, he was the only one that could have brought justice to the decaying westrosi society.

I loved his character the only true king

Stannis was a warrior through and through.

I love the minor detail that from the aerial shot, you can see Stannis as a tiny dot, in the front of his army, with his most loyal soldiers rushing to his side, and at the back, half of his remaining army abandoning him and running for the trees.

Gotta respect the bravery of Stannis knowing full well defeat was the likely outcome

Stannis didn't tremble before a large army, he accepted death and drew his sword. His men also got inspired and followed him. He leads from the front no matter the cause.

THE women should have helped stannis if anything not killed him .

When you carried your noob team to the final circle and there’s 6 squads of sweats left 3:39

I'd like to think that the histories of Westero would record this as Stannis(House Baratheon) attempting to rescue Sansa (House Stark). A tragic but heroic attempt by the Stag, to save the Direwolf.

Fooking boltons. Hail to the True King Stanis the mannis

If you were stood here, as the Bolton army came, would you fight beside Stannis or run?

I never got where did the Boltons get that much cavalry from?

We all love the Mannis, but i have to give props to his men. Abandoned their lands and holdings in the south after a crushing defeat to fight wildlings, then ironborn, then cunty northerners and potentially (later on) reanimated corpses once the REAL war began- all on the word of a fire-demon worshiping witch and ironclad loyalty to the last Baratheon. Fucking legendary, these stormlanders.

Is it ever explained that some how House Bolton has like 7k calvary all the sudden? Thats more horses then Rob had and he had the entire North behind him

stannis the most stupid. he burned his own daughter alive to win the war and he didn't have a clue about his enemies' power and plans and attacked with closed eyes and lost big time as he deserved like all the stupid kings...

They shouldn’t be at open field like that. There is like a big forest behind them to take cover in. 😐

Pretty crazy that the real outcome of this battle still hasn't been made official.

As a student of central Asian steppe warfare my biggest question is how Ramsey kept all those horses fed.

Would square formations work?

Look at Stannis. Then watch our politics. we need Stannis now. we do not need fucking politician