OK. Time to get serious about things. First: we need to find and secure the King, damnit. The Hound is good, but he's not that good. If we want to find the King, or for him to find us, we need to put all or part of our army in the field near his last known location, so that one of its pickets or outriders might find him or that he might sight or hear the main body and make for it. The King's last known location was Maidenpool, near to Harrenhall, which means taking either:
[] Attempt to attack Harrenhal and Tywin Lannister directly. (Write-In commander)
or
[] Counter the Westerlander raiders in the Crownlands. (Write-In commander)
This is forced. Accept no plan which does not include at least one of these. I am agnostic as to the commander, but we have Edmure Tully, as Hand command of the army probably should fall to him (as it did against Caern once he showed up), and he did attain victory against that pretender. Just be sure to remind him, perhaps in a write-in, that the objective of his expedition is to find and secure the King as much as it is to counter Tywin's raids (not Lannister raids;
Tywin is the abettor of brigands and kinslayers, and an attained traitor; not the whole family or all Westerlanders). Tully requires somewhat more management than other commanders might, strategy-wise, competent though he may be in the field. Maybe loan him our Valyrian Steel sword, who knows, it might help.
As for our other action, we have some options.
According to Azel, gathering intel on Casterly Rock to forward to Balon is viable, and may even encourage Tywin to get off our backs. Alternatively, we might want to send a deputation to Stannis (not consisting of our hostages, for goodness sake!) offering to meet somewhere suitably neutral, through plenipotentiaries, to hammer out a deal to get him to leave us alone in exchange for the release of Selyse and Shireen. We want either Stannis or Tywin out of the picture to be able to do more with our army than counter-raid in the Crownlands. For a still further alternative, forcing open the sea lanes with our pretty-big-actually combined fleet, for the purpose of buying food, is totally viable. As a Bote Guy from when I joined the quest, I feel somewhat obligated to pick it. If we are deploying the fleet, it should be commanded by our Master of Ships. Finally, there's the matter of the Faith. I don't like letting it fester, but at least for now, the Most Devout are doing more or less what we want them to do: courting us and annoying the Tyrells sufficiently to keep them from turning on us. And at least with the High Septon cut off from any power base besides us, he has no choice but to continue supporting us. It's not a stable equilibrium, but it'll hold.
Finally, we have a free action sitting out there to promote new Kingsguard, and there is absolutely no reason not to take it except for a dearth of knowledge on my part about what miscellaneous knights are at hand.
@Azel ? My inclination is to support someone tied to the Tyrells, and perhaps one of the less objectionable Redcloaks or other Lannister prisoners to show we do not mean them, our homeland and our countrymen any ill will as such. It is merely Tywin who has made himself our enemy.
I'll take a look over the existing plans and see if I'll support any; and if not, will try to come up with something.
