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A set report in the magazine SciFiNow reveals some details for season two. Here are the highlights, courtesy of Winter Is Coming:

- The Blackwater battle will feature a very clever aquatic battering ram. Basically it’s on a boat with rib-like supports sticking out the top. When the boat beaches, the soldiers unpack the battering ram, spin the boat upside down, reconnect the ram and then run it up to the gates with the hull of the boat acting as cover from missile fire.
-HBO mocked up a section of King’s Landing wall for the Blackwater. The wall is 20 metres away from a stretch of water, allowing skiffs full of soldiers to disembark under heavy arrow, ballistae and boiling oil fire from the walls.
- There is a set of ‘bone armour’ featuring in S2 which will make ‘readers of the books clap their hands in delight’. Cersei has a set of ornamental and elegant, ‘Valkyrie-like’ armour.

Also, the article describes season two as “the season of battles”, with episode nine’s Battle of Blackwater the sixty-minute highlight. [Winter Is Coming]

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