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The Game of Thrones battle with the Night King seemed utterly devoid of tactics. For example, it started with a suicide charge. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised because neither the books nor the show hinted at any organized method for teaching tactics. They'd just pick someone to be a leader who just made it up as he went along.

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It's not a suicide charge if all those who died come back a few episodes later.

I'm not sure "our writing is worse than our tactics" is much of a defense.

The battle of the bastards had good tactics on Ramsey side. It was pretty terrifying how they surrounded them with shields and spears and kept closing the circle. Probably the most intense scene after the red wedding.

The Roman army was repeatedly able to achieve victory against hordes 10 times their size. Tactics and organization can work really well.

The battle of Thermopylae is an even more extreme example of this.

Roman army was a logistics marvel of its time as well, essentially legions were small towns and later standard but well chosen equipment was used to reduce costs.

They also had pretty good strategy of showing the conquered best and richest of the Empire while gating political participation by culture. This worked for quite some time...

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