I've spent about five hours trying to get to Winter Has Come, and from what I can tell, the only way to do it quicklyis to pass each time you start a battle, and ignore Blackwater Multiball. It seems a shame that the only way to progress on WIC shots is to not be in a mode. Am I missing something, or does that make the mode really hard to get to, as well as make the game more boring? It sure would be nice if there were a way to make WIC progress while doing other stuff.

Wait a minute. You're telling me that if I have Greyjoy and Stark lit for battle, I can hit the spinner twice, and then the Stark ramp once to start WIC on that shot, and then hit it one more time to collect? That makes things a bit easier. I was going into this thinking that every iced-over shot had its own WIC countdown, which meant that four separate shots needed to be hit a total of seven times.

Still, it's definitely something you have to work towards, almost to the exclusion of all else. I've only ever come close to stumbling into it once. I guess if you're pretty good at getting to and through Hand of the King, it's just a few more shots to WHC.