@ADragonDemands I am watching your Stannis video again tonight. You've reminded me that D&D made (yet another) mistake in making him a "beggar king." He went north and subdued the wilding army with his own meager forces. It's what earned him Jon's (and some wildling) respect.

The Iron Bank was, at that point, looking for any alternative to Lannisters because they never actually paid their debts. They only gave him cash when he was the last one standing who had shown his capacity to gather troops. How did I forget that?

(I definitely remembered that he told his mercenaries that Shireen was his heir, and that she was to be fought for if he died against the Lannisters).

All of that aside, the idea that Ramsey Bolton sent "20 good men" to deprive Stannis Baratheon of all of his supplies in one night is not just an insult to one of the best battle commanders in Westeros, but an insult to everyone who's ever played a fucking strategy game.

If Stannis had played Caesar II, would he have put his fuckin' grain stores at the edge of the city not even protected by a city wall?

Yeah, no.

Would he then push his army forward? Yeah, no.

Why would Ramsey even come out in a fight at this point? He wouldn't have.

Stannis was trying to run siege, not a battle.

There's also no way that Stannis burned his daughter to get clear weather. D&D indicated that this was one of the big surprised that GRRM had for them, but there's no way it happened in that way or for that reason. It's literally impossible.

Stannis may eventually burn his daughter, but it won't be for the reason he did in the show. He left Shireen at the wall under Jon's protection and told his sellswords to put her on the throne if he died.

Shireen is very likely to get burned for some reason.

It won't be because Stannis wanted better weather, though.