Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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Okay.
Part of my preliminary notes...
Military forces we gained in the 9th Month, with the Volantene forces sort of in an inbetween state--but if we end up Annexing them at the start of the 11th Month we're going to end up paying all of their expenses, wages and so on anyway, so it's a mere formality to have Zherys do something "natural" in response to a dual conquest-annexation of the newly formed superpower next door, and he's in control of the rest of the Province actions anyway... D I R E C T R U L E F R O M S O R C E R E R S D E E P, amirite?
The Braavosi Fleet will stay together and prepare / militarize this month with aid from Extraplanar markets, local fey enchanters, and whatever else while we plan upgrades of some sort (aquatic forge creatures, etc.) Once we've done that we'll have them patrol the Shivering Sea in the 11th Month to complement our diplomatic efforts toward Ibben. Isolationist as they are, they won't stay that way for long once we prove they're about to get farmed by hungry monsters in short order without the support.
Volantene Fleet will start repairing their smaller ship complement in preparation for some posturing. They will need to be ready for when we start seeing Jade Sea city states become part of the our realm and Qarth and Ghis start getting antsy.
13,000 Levies will remain in Braavos for 6 months, gradually being trained into Legionnaires. This is so that they're constantly doing something useful each turn for our militarization phase. 8,000 Braavosi Men-At-Arms will go on to form garrisons for Pentos and their own region, with some newly trained reinforcements from the Disputed Lands.
5,000 of those remaining Levies will be sent on to Westhaven immediately. 23,000 Levies will be sent over from Volantis next month, not interfering with the schedule. That's enough to form three Legions in six months.
6,000 Men-At-Arms will be retrained into Legionnaires in Volantis this month, leaving a remaining 19,000. These will go on to form more garrisons, both for what we have now and territories we intend on annexing in the future. Though considering that already takes up 14,000 of them, that's basically just enough to form garrisons for one more Free City at best... good thing the Disputed Lands will be training another 2,000 MAA every month for the next six (with what we have currently that should give us coverage for the rest of Western Essos without issue, Westeros is another story). Volantis will have 22,000 Levies remaining after all this shuffling of troops, which it will retrain starting next month into Legionnaires. It should actually be done with that within five months, providing us with a total of three Legions with the addition of 10,000 Elites they already have who need minimal drilling, per DM.
We would end up with... nine and a half Legions of troops for sure. Ten with those Sellswords still in Pentos which we'll recruit this turn, as Volantis will have a whole month to handle that throughput for another 6,000 MAA.
Tl;Dr We'll have a minimum of 118,000 elite soldiers, or more troops than the entire Reach, and enough troops to match blow for blow any three other Kingdoms... combined. Oh, and they're qualitatively better in every manner, would have had years of drilling put into them, and over half of them would be recently blooded troops, relatively speaking, instead of war veterans at best in Westeros.
RIP enemies.
RIP treasury.
Part of my preliminary notes...
Military forces we gained in the 9th Month, with the Volantene forces sort of in an inbetween state--but if we end up Annexing them at the start of the 11th Month we're going to end up paying all of their expenses, wages and so on anyway, so it's a mere formality to have Zherys do something "natural" in response to a dual conquest-annexation of the newly formed superpower next door, and he's in control of the rest of the Province actions anyway... D I R E C T R U L E F R O M S O R C E R E R S D E E P, amirite?
The Braavosi Fleet will stay together and prepare / militarize this month with aid from Extraplanar markets, local fey enchanters, and whatever else while we plan upgrades of some sort (aquatic forge creatures, etc.) Once we've done that we'll have them patrol the Shivering Sea in the 11th Month to complement our diplomatic efforts toward Ibben. Isolationist as they are, they won't stay that way for long once we prove they're about to get farmed by hungry monsters in short order without the support.
Volantene Fleet will start repairing their smaller ship complement in preparation for some posturing. They will need to be ready for when we start seeing Jade Sea city states become part of the our realm and Qarth and Ghis start getting antsy.
13,000 Levies will remain in Braavos for 6 months, gradually being trained into Legionnaires. This is so that they're constantly doing something useful each turn for our militarization phase. 8,000 Braavosi Men-At-Arms will go on to form garrisons for Pentos and their own region, with some newly trained reinforcements from the Disputed Lands.
5,000 of those remaining Levies will be sent on to Westhaven immediately. 23,000 Levies will be sent over from Volantis next month, not interfering with the schedule. That's enough to form three Legions in six months.
6,000 Men-At-Arms will be retrained into Legionnaires in Volantis this month, leaving a remaining 19,000. These will go on to form more garrisons, both for what we have now and territories we intend on annexing in the future. Though considering that already takes up 14,000 of them, that's basically just enough to form garrisons for one more Free City at best... good thing the Disputed Lands will be training another 2,000 MAA every month for the next six (with what we have currently that should give us coverage for the rest of Western Essos without issue, Westeros is another story). Volantis will have 22,000 Levies remaining after all this shuffling of troops, which it will retrain starting next month into Legionnaires. It should actually be done with that within five months, providing us with a total of three Legions with the addition of 10,000 Elites they already have who need minimal drilling, per DM.
We would end up with... nine and a half Legions of troops for sure. Ten with those Sellswords still in Pentos which we'll recruit this turn, as Volantis will have a whole month to handle that throughput for another 6,000 MAA.
Tl;Dr We'll have a minimum of 118,000 elite soldiers, or more troops than the entire Reach, and enough troops to match blow for blow any three other Kingdoms... combined. Oh, and they're qualitatively better in every manner, would have had years of drilling put into them, and over half of them would be recently blooded troops, relatively speaking, instead of war veterans at best in Westeros.
RIP enemies.
RIP treasury.
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