Song of Ice & Fire | Greyjoy

Although drawn from the ranks of experienced Reavers, the Ironborn Bowmen are ill-suited to a melee. Their focus is wholly on delivering high damage at long range in support of their brethren. Softening up enemy ranks prior to a friendly charge makes enemy units that much more vulnerable to a rapid defeat, which is part-and-parcel of Ironborn battle doctrine. Care must be taken to shield the Bowmen from charging cavalry, but if positioned intelligently, a single unit can provide long-range fire support to anywhere on the battlefield.

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The sigil of House Harlaw is a silver scythe. The House Harlaw Reapers have taken that sigil and turned it into an actual weapon of war. Agricultural scythes make poor combat weapons, but the Reapers have adopted using long-handled axes with equally massive blades. These grisly instruments can mow down men in combat the way a regular scythe can mow down wheat in the field. House Greyjoy is putting them to use, clearing the battlefields of enemies.

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All along the cost of Westeros, sailors know to fear the Ironborn Reavers. Sightings of their longships are met with fear and trepidation. The Reavers are coastal raiders, ready to make quick assaults wherever they please. Now, these pirates loyal to House Greyjoy are bringing their swift hit-and-run tactics inland during all the chaos caused by the war for the Iron Throne.

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