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In the books or the show? Because in the show 90% of Essos is what we call free real estate.

In real battles, men dont just riot into each other in a disorganized mosh pit, completely overrunning each others lines, screaming and waving swords until both armies are completely mixed together, stabbing at random in a big sea of nonsense. Consider the battle of the Bastards, where the...

Well, the armies in the show are for some reason willing to accept unbelievable levels of attrition, and break pretty rarely, but even the professionals among them tend to devolve into mindless savages the second they make contact with the enemy. I swear, we see literally the entire adult...

In real life? Absolutely not. The "Dirt peasant with a shovel army" is almost pure myth. Most medieval soldiers were, at the very least, trained semi-professionals with their own armor and weapons. In Game of Thrones? It's hard to say. One description suggests its the "dirt peasants meme"...