Anyway, as to Westeros, if we get even a few days free I would use them to start working our way down the list of neutral Houses. This month I wanna do the Riverlands. Next month I want to actually and officially create our Lords Declarant-expy in the Vale.
And in the first month I want to devote a bit over a week at least to sizing up the Reach since it will determine our strategic objectives and concerns for the invasion in a big way. The second month and third month I would want to start unwinding that thread the Lannisters left sticking out when they enslaved their own bannermen.
So here's my extended thoughts on how we're handling the "War in Westeros" from the 11th Month 293 to the 3rd Month 294.
This month we sweep up the rest of the Riverlands within easy reach and make sure our loyalists there don't allow the rest to consolidate into anything resembling a threat.
Next month we work with Yohn and Lord Grafton and really pull in all of their allies into something resembling a network Monford has going. Ideally this would ostensibly take the form of the Lord Declarant from canon, with much the same reasoning, securing Jon Arryn's succession and forming a regency council. This has happened so many times in Vale history, it's the ideal way to organize.
The 1st Month I want to go hard on the Reach. UNFORTUNATELY I've just discovered, through ABSOLUTELY no chicanery of
@DragonParadox's own, Titus Peake is married to a fucking goddamn
Lannister cadet branch lady.
LIKE WHAT FUCKING KIND OF COINCIDENCE IS THAT?!
So our initial strategy is going to rely on capturing Starpike. I would say by capturing the Lord and their household from within. Starpike is relevant as men spilling out of the Prince's Pass run into this as a first roadblock--and in hindsight it's not much of a coincidence that the Lord is married to a Lannister, Tywin probably even in canon was concerned about Dornishmen spilling out of the Pass, though his lack of having any ties between his House and the Reach until Renly died baffles me how this foresight could be anything more than sheer opportunity and the way to keep an eye on the border of a seditious hotbed.
Once we've got a solid hold over the rest of the southern Reach through having Redwyne, Hightower, Tarly and Florent coordinate and politick and present a united front, we can focus our attention away at the prickly and problematic and really get ourselves a nice solid core of genuine loyalists who actually have some resources to throw around, instead of just making it one big chaotic brawl between us, the Fey, the Faith and any leftover third party stooges.
Finally in the second and third month, just before our invasion really kicks off, and mostly because if anything goes wrong it won't be salvageable (as I expect us to have three to four Moonchasers by this point and dozens of Wyverns, which should be enough to project power across the continent in a timely fashion without permanent standing forces hovering nearby like the proverbial Sword of Damocles), we infiltrate the Westerlands and snap off some chains from bannermen.
I would say the second month to learn everyone's particular situation without really revealing our hand or flipping the table, which allows us to do something useful here on an even spread across the effected Houses, and continue building up, then the next month we act quickly and rapid-fire with multiple teams to free them, probably in the last two weeks of the month. If something goes wrong we'll pretty much be ready.
That's the political angle in broad strokes, military insight incoming.
