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/DryIllustrator5748 Jun 12 '25

I think the droids win comfortably, but just to play devil's advocate, Revenge of the Sith pretty clearly shows how poorly his plate armor covers his heart. An arrow at the right angle would appear to be able to kill him instantly.

If they get that lucky shot, then battle droids alone are very stupid. All kinds of traps could be set to incapacitate them, even if they don't have the tech to kill them outright. Though I suspect wildfire would be enough.

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u/HamsterFromAbove_079 Jun 12 '25

Grievous is a class above anything of GoT. You can't get a lucky shot. The Star War universe regularly deflects blaster shots with their lightsabers that are moving much faster and more precisely.

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u/DryIllustrator5748 Jun 12 '25

Right, but one of the main characteristics of Grievous is that he can't use the force, which is the canonical reason lightsabers can reliably deflect blasters.

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u/BastardofMelbourne Jun 13 '25

But he can spin them around like big fan blades, which is just as good. 

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u/Spicyalligator Jun 13 '25

So he can chop an arrow in half. There’s still a sharp half-arrow carrying momentum towards his heart

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u/BastardofMelbourne Jun 13 '25

Now I want to shoot an arrow through a fan blade to see if it still hits the target

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u/naraic- Jun 16 '25

Correction. You want to shoot an arrow through a fan blade to see if it hits anything.

We are talking about lucky shots here.

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u/HamsterFromAbove_079 Jun 12 '25

Grievous doesnt' need to deflect blasters though. I'm just using the fact that he can swing his lightsabers with that speed and precision as evidence that a random arrow isn't going to catch his heart.

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u/awaythrowthatname Jun 15 '25

This is true, but arrows are significantly slower than blaster bolts. I'm not one of those idiots that claim that Star Wars blasters are lightspeed, but irl human beings are able to react to arrows, so a cybernetically enhanced warrior that regularly fights Jedi and survives will not ever be threatened by an arrow, unless he is somehow completely immobilized

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u/TheStrangeCanadian Jun 16 '25

Canon Grievous almost gets killed by a regular dude with a spear who was willing to sacrifice himself, I don’t think he wins against all of Westeros

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u/FriendshipCute1524 Jul 09 '25

Also didn't they show Obi-wan had to pry that armor opened with his hands to get to the squishy bits in the middle? I don't see a lucky shot getting through tiny finger sized gaps in his armor, Especially with how fast he is, And even then it took like 5 shots to kill him from a blaster pistol, I think he's pretty safe from arrows.