[Mandalore93]

They should be far weaker given the description of the Iron Islands as well as their geographic site. Given that Westeros from Dorne to the wall is about the size of South America for a rough scale estimate let's say that the Iron Isles are about the size of Cuba all put together (very generous estimate). There's really not a way I see them fielding 20,000 swords. This combined with the fact that the North still has aroun 15-25k men lying around combined with the fact that the Iron Born suck at organized land warfare indicates to me that the North should have been very easy to hold for Robb. There are quite a few lordly members who are ostensibly veterans of several wars lying around. The heir to a masterly house (Cerwyn) is also in the North during this time if I recall correctly. We know for a dead fact that there are at least 5,000 summonable soldiers just from two areas. 2k from around Winterfell (Source:Sack of Winterfell) and around 3,000 from the clans.

Robb over-rated as fuck. Tear that entire family down. But don't post that in reddit, you'll get like 50 downvotes for no reason other than the circle jerk.