Did we do anything in Mereen at all or did we just have what feels like twenty people sitting in Yunkai with their thumbs up their asses?
Is everyone even aware that New Ghis is a thing?
Did we make any local allies in all these months of operations?
Unless someone can give me a decent, concrete reason for someone being in a specific city in the Ghiscari area, I'm for pulling them out. Without replacement. We are wasting people there.
1) We killed a bunch of Devil sympathetic high nobles and generally threw their power structure into chaos and anarchy a month ago.
2) Haven't heard back from DP yet about what New Ghis is doing, but our passive observation is in place on the area.
3) Sons of the Harpy made contact with us around the same time we took out infernal patsies in Meereen. Either the Devils have no other opposition, or the opposition is very good at avoiding notice. Both are equally plausible, we have been focusing on being irritating for the local devils, not befriending people that are hard to distinguish from fiend pawns since they're all basically slavers and have a generally homogeneous degree of callousness with regards to human life.
4) Pretty much just reiterates my previous point up there. Do I take this to mean you've pretty much decided to ignore Baator until they start attacking us directly? That honestly shouldn't take very long by the way. They have every reason to do so, because common sense dictates either we will snowball enough to the point that the general fiendish advantage of asymmetric corruption is ineffective if they can't hide their activities well enough, or they will just bring in the infernal legions and start conquering the entire planet. Also logically, if they could do the latter, why advertise their presence at all by trying to take over Slaver's Bay? Why the posturing? Better to have concealed their presence entirely until such a time that they could send an arbitrarily sufficient number of Pit Fiends at the problem.
The problem with Slaver's Bay isn't that we're wasting our time there, it's that we're being led to believe there's no point to doing anything about it. But that's hardly our fault.
We sent a lot of resources at the problem for multiple turns and DP thought he could stretch out the whole thing over a year, apparently, until Viserys decided it was his top priority, because nothing can happen and no plot can progress unless the main character is there. See City of Brass.
I'm mostly being sarcastic there, but my impression of the whole narrative thread there is that we were far late to the party, and literally nothing we could do short of placing our full, undivided attention toward the problem could have solved it, but the thing that pisses me off is that we weren't given any indication of that, just "stuff is happening over here", "you both yank the rug out from under each other near the end of the month" and "Devils tried to trick you, then you caught them and gave them spankies".
That's what Slaver's Bay has been for months. Giving Devils spankies when they desperately needed a beating, but we're the proverbial stepdad who's too drunk to body anyone except another beer can.
