Oh yes, Joker, the Lannister guardsmen armors are silly - it's a shame they didn't just go with kettle hats and half helmets as are mentioned a few times in the books. The Starks look pretty neat in their fur cloaks and mail though, which is also true to the book series, and the King's Guard and ( as far as I remember ) Tywin Lannister's armors were quite good, too. And now that you mention LoTR - and people are otherwise spewing random stuff into the virtual room - the appearance of the men of Gondor is probably the oddest and most inappropriate design choice with their big WoW shoulderpads and plate when compared to their mail and black surcoats in the books ( which has also destroyed much in licence games and Total War and M&B LoTR mods based on the movies ).