Military Evaluation of the Battle of Winterfell

An analysis of Team Alive and Team Dead battle tactics.

He makes good points.

But I agree with social media that the Dothraki charge was stupid and bound to failure. My opening salvo would've been to fire the cannon balls to induce a Team Dead  infantry charge into Unsullied. While the Unsullied held the line, employe one dragon to burn up  dead and to lure out the Night King dragon. Keep other Dragon in reserve to attack Night King when he appears. If he fails to appear, the wights get all burned up.

Use Dothraki and flaming swords as a reserve force to flank the dead should the dragons get called away to do battle with Night King or need to protect Bran.

I don't think Team Alive needed to induce battle as it was clear Team Dead came to fight. Don't think Team Dead had a siege plan.

Writer makes a good point about White Walkers not utilized in the fighting - they had spears that could take down dragons --  although we've never seen a White Walker chuck the spear, only the Night King himself. It might be reasonable to assume the White Walkers are not good at throwing.

I believe Bran's ravens were also not used well in the fighting. Seems to me, they should've been out looking for the While Walkers and then a small Team Alive navy SEAL type unit equipped with Valyrian Steel ought to be have out hunting the White Walkers.

Obviously, the Night King has a stupid top-down army design and should just put himself in a box like 100 miles away to avoid being killed, but it seems he was not designed that way.

Nevertheless, you cannot argue with success to much and Team Alive prevailed.