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So people have wondered a lot about the strategy of exposing the Dothraki. Sansa was talking with Royce a few times and we didn’t really see those knights so she may have had them hold back. Jon didn’t seem to care that the Dothraki were getting obliterated and wasn’t even keen on going to help but Dany wanted to so he had to join her.
There was still essentially two armies fighting as one against the army of the dead but perhaps they weren’t fighting as one as much as we were thinking. Perhaps the Dothraki being allowed to be destroyed and the Unsullied protecting the retreat of northerners by the planning group as a whole was an insurance policy against Dany’s army.
Most of those planning were northerners or supporting Jon more than Dany. And Dany wouldn’t really suspect her best interests weren’t the same as everyone else. Tyrion was really the only one with a big strategic battle input but it is questionable if he still supports her. Maybe Bran flipped him and everyone sort of just accepted that Dany losing the lions share of supporters in the battle was the best thing for potentially removing her claim and ability to forcibly take the throne. Then Sansa still has her ace in the hole of the only remaining mounted knights.
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