Meanwhile, Lord Paramount and King in the Narrow Sea, Stannis Baratheon has just repelled the army of Mance Rayder, King Beyond the Wall, and is now trying to set up a Stark puppet in Winterfell to secure the North. Daenarys Targaryen has claimed the city state of Meereen and is dealing with the colossal clusterfuck of Ghiscari politics and Aegon of Essos, the supposed son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Elia Martell, has arrived with an army of 10,000 hardened mercenaries to steal the Stormlands.

Suffice to say that in a straight war, especially not a defensive one, Dorne is fucked.ДЄt the start of AFFC, 8301, the Targaryen dynasty is largely fucked. By contrast, the Riverlands, Stormlands, Iron Islands, and Vale can all field 21,000 under the same circumstances. When all your vassals like you and are willing to send as many troops as they can when you ask. For reference, in CK2, Dorne at game start can field maybe 17,000 soldiers. Which is why for my next game, I decided to play as Dorne, the weakest of the Seven Kingdoms, canonically better defended by deserts and mountains than its limited population. Having just gotten off a CK2 AGOT game where I, Jon вЂњSnowвЂќ Stark, had just taken the North back from the Boltons through force of arms, saved Stannis from the dungeons of KingвЂ™s Landing (with force of arms), freed the slaves of the Iron Islands (with force of arms), took the Riverlands twice (with force of arms), and forced SansaвЂ™s daughter on the Iron Throne, securing all of Westeros was technically property of the Starks (with force of arms), I realized that I was way too quick to start wars, on virtue of knowing I could win. Just kidding, you probably know all this shit by now. Significant spoilers for A Feast for Crows and a Dance with Dragons follows.

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