So I am a glutton for punishment and I thought I would hang another post of me screaming into the soundless void that is our game forum.
The Verdreth family is kaput. Now that we have all of their retainers and loyal vassals in one place we should capitilize on it.
Obvisouly the Baron had some sort of plan or intention if he regained his seat. We need to find out what that was. Was his release from the Castle orchestrated by Balim? How was he able to raise his force? What was his intention after he did so?
Matt, can we get a list of who we have bagged? I would like to see what we know about each of them and get an idea of where they are placed in the kingdom geographically. As well as what kind of political leverage they each may have. Right now it would appear on the surface that we have both the Barony of Turneua and Kolorn under our control at least nominally. I would be curious to see how we can strengthen and leverage that.
I also think we should move the supplies from Varayne and get them stockpiled here. I would leave the the forces that we have on site here and use Turnua as the focus of our military power. It has both strategic and politcal influence.
I also think we should improve the defenses. My initial plan is that we augment the craptastic stonewall with a stockade. A stockade could be made with resources available, would improve security, and would be easily removable if we had to take it down. The advantage of wood is that we could precut and prepare the sections and then throw them up later if we didnt want to show our hand in improving the wall.
We may also want to take hostages from the families of the lords we have at hand now, though with their leige lord and his heir gone its an open question as to who would lead them. Who is next in line for the Verdreth clan?