Should be squared away.
I don't see the harm.
Personally, my main issue with your plan is that "a grand procession along with whatever court notables wish to accompany their king on his glorious mission" sounds more like sending noble failsons to form a moving court (which is smtg I can def see Cersei doing, so am worried that's how it would be carried out) than forming, well, a war party, which the other one is more explicitly. Cersei isn't micromanaging anymore than giving him a set amount of resources (men and the Kingsguard) either way. Honestly, would recommend either plan just give Sandor leave to take whomever he wants to take (also, to keep at least some Kingsguard, preferably reliable ones, at court. They are supposed to protect the Royal Family as well).
Folks, there will be plenty of soldiers in the Riverlands to handle Clegane, Joffrey's not literally doing this on his own. Don't worry about it.
He's just moving to join up with the troops already tasked to handle the Mountain-Hunt. We're specifying his personal guard, hence the Kingsguard coming along, and I added in the 'court notables' since Joffrey getting to know the young and ambitious figures in court through a most classic westerosi endeavor will only help his future reign.
What forces? The ones under Dondarrion are clearly done for, and everyone else's loyalties are suspect and have not been able to deal with this anyway. Like, we are sending the King, if he gets captured or killed we would get a crisis in our hands. This could be a disaster in the making if we don't handle this with care. Again, I really think the plans should leave the planning to Sandor, he knows his brother and he knows war.
Let's get this clarified, then.
I am not suggesting an Army, we don't have one of those lol, just that we send what Sandor thinks is needed. The vote is supposed to specify what forces we should send to guard the King, nominally this whole affair is to send the King out to enforce the King's justice by detaining Clegane and stop his brigading. Sandor think its a stupid ideia since he knows his brother has no compunctions about just killing Joffrey if he goes there and try to do this. He will resist. Which is why we need to send people at least capable of matching his warband, ideally enough to reliably win against them, since they won't just surrender nicely. Joffrey is leading a "hunt for the Mountain" after all.
Unless you want him to deploy with Gold Cloaks, you don't really have an army. There's only a hundred Red Cloaks in the capital.
I figured the plan was that he'd join with Edmure's host, but I'll make sure to specify that in the plan. Otherwise, the Kingsguard and other noble volunteers should do the trick of ensuring Joffrey doesn't die in the process.
Unless they are all equipped with Baelish's show teleporters / jetpacks, the fight will probably be done by the time their forces march all the way from Dorne to the Riverlands.
That.....is true, to far away to be important right now. Meh, Maybe later.
there are a lot of sellswords and free knights in KL, maybe creating a small retinue of people chosen by joffrey? (mostly clegane) giving them a little name and maybe some distinctive clothes so people recognize them? there is precedent in canon with the ravens teeth and the winter wolves. It would give us numbers and start training the little monster in management and people skills.
It has at that. Although I was already swayed by the focus on building a loyalist fleet to contest the Narrow Sea. Command of the sea is too dangerous a thing to just cede to one's enemies.
