JeffEngel wrote:CJK wrote:From the sound of it RFC the last naval battle (Dohlar) will done before the King Haarald's are even finished. After all if the 2 Cities that dealt with Desnair are now free to focus on Dohlar with plenty of supporting galleons at Claw Island.
Especially as the Army of God and Archangels has to go into winter quarters in 1 and a 1/2 months and Earl Hanth is much closer to the equator. NTM Charis has winter fighting capability it would be very logical to squeeze Dohlar with army and naval forces like an annoying pimple while the CoGA is literally unable to do anything to help.
Squeezing Dohlar may be something to keep up just long enough to get them to drop out. Being able to make defection stick in Dohlar may well depend on making it painfully clear to those who would prefer to keep on fighting for the Church as long as it can usefully be done that that point has passed already. The people who are inclined to fight to the death, come what may, may be a small enough minority that the rest of Dohlar can keep them in line, once the rest of Dohlar gets behind getting the heck out of this mess.
And ships and troops around the Gulf of Dohlar, when that job is done, are close to the Border States, Temple Lands, and either Harchong, and are, if not close to Hsing-Wu's Passage, are at least not as far from it as many other Allied forces.
To me it looks somewhat as if the inner circle is avoiding pushing Dohlar too much in order to keep them in play for a while longer. Forces could have been diverted to catch Ahlvarez and flank the forces facing Hanth and put Charisian troops in Dohlar. But the inner circle needs the object lesson that the KH VII's will deliver and especially the continued innovation - and the discredit the church's actions cause.