r/whowouldwin • u/TheThroneIsMine77 • Jun 12 '25

Challenge Can General Grievous and 500 droids take over Westeros?

General Grievous spawns in Westeros with an army of 500 droids during the events of season 1 of Game of Thrones. His objective is to take the Iron Throne and destroy all who are in his way of completing said objective

For the sake of the prompt, the use the following: - Grievous himself has all canon feats, no legends - His army consists of 250 super battle droids and 250 destroyer droids - He does not need to necessarily kill everyone and everything in order to achieve his objectives but must eliminate all threats - Westeros will not unite against him entirely, but some alliances could form against him - Grievous and his droids must be defeated, for the sake of the prompt they have unlimited charge/power

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u/ShouldersofGiants100 ​ Jun 12 '25

The dragons' fire is hot enough to melt stone (Harrenhall). Droids can't survive that kind of heat.

  1. That's sustained fire, in other words, the dragon breathed fire constantly for a sustained period until the stone melted. Possible at Harrenhall, as there was no counterattack possible, not so much against an army of droids shooting at you.

  2. I'd question if droids are easier to melt than stone. Star Wars material science is extremely advanced. They can build structures the size of moons and ships that when they hit the ground, they basically bounce off. They could absolutely make heat-resistant armour for a droid and considering plasma weapons are the primary ones used, they absolutely would. In fact I am pretty sure B2s specifically are seen to take several shots to destroy.

  3. Droidakas shields are absolutely going to be able to tank that heat for the short bursts a dragon could use during a pass.

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u/phoenixmusicman ​ Jun 12 '25

R2 roasted some with his teeny jet fires, the SBDs would absolutely burn.

That being said, they still outrange the dragons so its a nonissue.

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u/sleepyleviathan Jun 12 '25

R2 ignited some unknown fluid with his repulsor jets, we don't know how hot that liquid was burning at. Could be campfire hot, could be essentially plasma. No way to tell.

Given that SBDs have ablative coating on their armor that can reflect blaster bolts, I'd venture to guess they aren't standing up to a sustained jet of dragon fire, but they can probably resist being insta-melted for long enough to get some shots off.

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u/TheStrangeCanadian Jun 16 '25

B2s also sometimes have a little rocket so there’s another form of attack potentially if blasters don’t do much to dragons

Also it was definitely an oil-analog liquid - sure maybe it could be some crazy space oil, but as far as I know, and from what is depicted on screen, it definitely isn’t close to plasma

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u/fuckyeahmoment Jun 12 '25

That's sustained fire, in other words, the dragon breathed fire constantly for a sustained period until the stone melted. Possible at Harrenhall, as there was no counterattack possible, not so much against an army of droids shooting at you.

Droids have absolutely abysmal marksmanship feats. It's a 50/50 chance they'd be able to hit droids at 30 paces with a few dozen shooting.

There's almost no chance they're hitting a flying dragon.