davos archers could have picked off a lot of the infantry that went to surround jon.
heck, that infantry's back will be to davos if they were to do continue the surrounding tactic.
if only davos held his position.
Most archers (in the real world) were just people that shot better than others. They aren't marksmen like Ramsey was. The odds of them picking anyone off are the same as them hitting one of Jon's men.
whole episode was kind of meh to me.
#1. why didn't they give the giant a weapon? any weapon? he could have wrecked half the army by himself if he had ~something~ but nope. he was reduced to swiping at spears and getting poked by them
#2. why didn't sansa tell them about littlefinger's army? at the very least told about the raven she sent. that would have let them wait a little while longer to see if he would show up.
#3. most of the wall's defense is now decimated. They might as well abandon the wall b/c the few remaining men won't last against the white walkers. All in all Jon's actions got a lot of people killed.
#4 why didn't Rickon just hide behind some of those burning Xs? or zig zag, something, anything but running in a straight line.
1. Not sure, but I don't recall them once saying the giant or his people were warriors. Odds are he wasn't and wasn't trained in fighting with a weapon. Armor might restrict his movements, not to mention they prob didn't have the armorer on hand to make it. There's also the chance the giant refused it all and fought with what he knew best... pluming people with bear hands. Not the brightest move, but he's a wildling.. they don't really follow conventional warfare.
2. I got the impression that he showed up at the last min. There's also the fact that Littlefinger was one of the people that put her in Ramsey's hands. I'm sure Jon has him on his list of people to have a word with.
3. The wall is no worse off now. Jon only took the Wildlings. The Knight's Watch are still there. Fucked, but not like Jon took everyone but the cook.
4. Panic makes people not think... you look at any area where people are in blind panic and not one will do the smart thing.
ramsay seemed to have more calvary than jon.
ramsay is an idiot for shooting at his own men when he had the advantage.
after the vale knights appeared and crushed ramsay's army, jon and the giant went running towards ramsay.
what happened to ramsay's battalion of archers??
I got the impression that they joined what's his name that had the headbutt war with the Red Headed Wildling. Otherwise, no clue.. they just ran away?