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The Young Wolf's Journey: Chapter 12 discussion (Patreon)

Published:
2023-01-02 01:15:33
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2023-01

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So, I think at this point it's time for the focus to be on Robb's attempt to take King's Landing from Stannis. But how do you see a battle like that playing out? Does Robb attempt to take it as swiftly as possible with his numbers? Does he try to block access to the port and lay siege to King's Landing, settling in for a more prolonged approach (even knowing how stubborn Stannis was and how he'd held out when Mace held Storm's End under siege during Robert's Rebellion)? If it comes to battle, is the focus more on a ground assault, or do we see something more akin to the Battle of the Blackwater?


I'll be the first to admit that I'm not the best at battles and war strategies (I've spent the last 3+ years writing pretty much pure smut, so this is far from my wheelhouse, lol), so I'd love to hear any thoughts anyone has to share here, or just any suggestions you have in general for the coming chapter and the story going forward. Honestly, if there was interest in it, I'd be open to switching to more of a nomination format similar to the other polls with this too (though I'd have to exercise more control over what made it into the polls than I did with Interactive 8th Year, just to make sure everything still makes sense and the story stays on course.) 

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Anonymous

Siege at least if only long enough to build equipment for an assault at a minimum. Also there are a lot of people in King's Landing and it won't be able to hold out as long as Storm's End.

Steven Dillon

Maybe Grey Wind is able to find a secret way in a la sewage system or something similar? Take them by surprise?

Anonymous

Stannis is definitely not a man to be taken by tricks, nor is he one to rise to provocation. He is a hard man who is does not bend under hard pressure, so a siege is unlikely to have any immediate effect. However, even though King’s Landing is much larger than Storm’s End and has more mouths to feed, the Red Keep, and then Maegor’s Keep further in, were built to last sieges for years. A valid strategy for Robb is defeat in detail. He could work by slowly taking away the lands and castles of Stannis’ key supporters. He could divide his forces to pen in Stannis at King’s Landing while sending other raiding companies to take the lands of Blackwater Bay, Dragonstone, Storm’s End, and anywhere else that pays homage to Stannis. Less honorable strategies could involve attempting to secretly work with subversive elements within King’s Landing to coordinate an assault with traitors and sellswords within the capital. The goldcloaks have shown themselves to be fickle in the past, changing allegiance to the highest bidder.

Anonymous

Based on how I see Robb, I see the battle strategy progressing as such. He starts by sieging Stannis in King’s Landing with half his army while the other half divides and conquers the lands that belong to Stannis’ bannermen simultaneously. Robb remains with his main army and fleet blockading the Blackwater in case Stannis decides he has to meet Robb’s army in the field to defend his lands, but this is unlikely to pass. The process of subduing Stannis’ lands and possible reinforcements should take a couple of months, but this is time that Robb can use to construct siege weapons (catapults, trebuchet, towers, rams, ladders, etc.). Stannis’ forces inside King’s Landing are likely hungry and on half rations by now, if not actively starving. The city is ready to riot given food shortages, while Robb has his men outside, loudly proclaiming that any who leave the city or open its gates will be granted food and shelter. Robb’s forces return, apart from small garrisons left behind in Stannis’ lands, and he begins to ready the assault. He deploys half his forces north and west of the city, while another quarter boards his ships to enact a simultaneous amphibious assault. He uses the remaining quarter of his forces as both reserves and scouts to screen the Kingswood and surrounding lands to ensure that his forces are not ambushed while he assaults the city. Robb takes the most dangerous task for himself, leading the assault on one of the city’s gates, the King’s Gate, as his father did at the Sack of King’s Landing during Robert’s Rebellion. With a three pronged assault from north, south, and west on all of the main gates of the city, Stannis’s forces will be hard-pressed to defend all of the gates equally, even more so if opportunists within the city open any gates. If one gate falls, then Robb’s reinforcements can surge through there to take the city.

Kvothe14

I like the siege first, battle a couple of months later suggestions. However, maybe Varys arranges for the city gates to be opened to Robb's forces, believing that it'll be easier to assassinate Robb in the Red Keep (given the little birds he has in KL) and pave the way for Aegon to take the throne.

mayorhaggar
>>98715315

This is really well thought-out and detailed, thanks! I wonder if this approach should necessitate a couple of chapters? Like maybe this chapter would be a couple of months into it, and we get a glimpse of the state of the city and how Robb's plan is progressing elsewhere (and I guess a bit of smut can be thrown in too.) And then the next chapter would show the actual assault on King's Landing.

mayorhaggar
>>98711056

While I think this is a valid idea, we already had Tyrion lead them into Casterly Rock through similar means, so I think it'd be better to have this battle play out diferently.

Anonymous
>>98715315

I think a couple chapters might be suitable for this. If you wanted Robb to experience some action (fight and/or smut) then you could have him lead an assault on one of the castle’s near and loyal to King’s Landing like Rosby. Like in the main series, he could take an arrow wounding him and have his loving wife and companions tend to his wound. Then at the end of the chapter, once he’s healed, he gets wind that the other castles are fallen, the siege weaponry built, and King’s Landing a seething cauldron ready to boil over. Then he begins his siege.