The Five Things Needed To Win A War: Soldiers, Gold, Arms and Armor, Food, and Loyalty

Aegon Wanted To Put An End To The Raiding Out Of The Stepstones, and As Such, Recruited The Ironborn To Help Him. But To Have Any Chance Of Successfully Winning A War Of Any Kind, Five Key Things Were Required. First, They Needed Soldiers, Second, Gold, Third Arms and Armor, Four Food, and Five Loyalty. Soldiers Needed Food To Keep Them Fed and Supplied, Arms To Fight and Armor To Protect, Gold To Keep Them Paid Or Buy More Food and Arms, and Loyalty To Keep Them United. Lannisters Could Supply The Gold, The North The Men, and The Reach The Food. The Westerlands and Reach Armies Under House Tyrell and House Lannister Respectively, Were Among The Best Equipped and Supplied In Westeros.

The Northern Army Took Much Longer To Amass, Due To The Sheer Size Of The North, But Ultimately, Forty Five Thousand Men Could Be Raised. The Riverlands Could Raise Seventeen Thousand Men, and Given The Opportunity, Could Join With The Vales Forty Five Thousand Men, Thus Making A **** Of Men Numbering At Roughly Sixty Thousand Men. Aegon Had An Aunt and A Sister Who Were Unwed and For All Intents and Purposes, Virgins. Even Though Rhaenys Wasn't, Few Outside Her Lovers Knew This. Aegon, Could Wed His Sister and Aunt To The Vale and Riverlands Liege Lords, As Hoster Tully Had Done With His Daughters To Ned Stark and Jon Arryn During The Failed Baratheon Rebellion. However, While Waste Two Matches, When He Could Acquire Sixty Thousand Men From One Regional Army With One Match, Or A Hundred Thousand With The Same.

The Iron Islands Granted Him Seventeen Thousand Men and Some Half That Number Ships. Aegon Could Exploit This More, Royal Matches Were Considered The Cream of Marriage pacts, But Close Relatives and Great House Nobles Came A Close Second and Third Respectively. Aegon Had Three Dornish Cousins, Arianne, Quentyn, and Trystane. Unfortunately, Quentyn Was Set To Marry The Younger Yronwood Heiress, Thus Nullifying Any Hope Of Him Marrying Into An Alliance. But Where Arianne Was The Sister, She Was The Heir, Because As Aegon's Uncle Oberyn Has Been Heard To Say, "Dorne Isn't Rule By A Cock". Aegon Could Wed Or Arrange To Wed Her To A Second Or Third Son To Another Great House.

She Could Marry Robin Arryn, Gaining The Vale, Without Loosing The Possibilities Of Offering Rhaenys and/or Daenerys To A Better Match. His Small Council Had Put Together A List, Of Matches. Myrcella Baratheon, Who Could Bring Lannister Gold and Military Might, While Also Bringing Her Father's Bannermen Into Battle Or War, So Roughly One Hundred and Five Thousand Me. Myrcella's Grandfather, Tywin Lannister Was A Brilliant Military Strategist and Commander, Having Crushed The Darklyn Rebellion, Despite Aerys II Targaryen Being Held Hostage, and Also Crushing The House Of Reyne and House Tarbeck After Succeeding His Father, The Incapable Tytos Lannister. Robert Baratheon, Myrcella's Father, Had Only Two Losses In The Entire Rebellion, Ashford, Where His Forces Lost To The Tyrell Forces, and The Trident Of Course. That Being Said, Robert Could Inspire Loyalty Unlike Most Anyone Else In Westeros.

Then There Was Sansa and Arya Stark, Either Would Acquire The North's Forty Five Thousand Men, But Of Course, Aegon Could Propose The The Young Lord Robb Stark Become Betrothed To Rhaenys or Dany. Or He Could Get Jon To Marry One Or Both Of Them, Or Get Them With Child and Take His Blasted Vows If The Original Plan Failed. The North Was One Of The Few Kingdoms, and By Few, Aegon Meant Only, To March South During Aegon's Conquest, Not Do Battle and Kneel Without Threats, Intimidation, and Anything Else To Persuade Them. The Vale Didn't Count, Because Shara Arryn Was A Regent, and Knelt When Her Son Ronnel Was Allowed To Fly Vhagar With Visenya Targaryen. If Refused, Visenya Could Have Easily Offered The Boy Falcon king Another Ride, Only To Throw Him To His **** Mid-Flight. But The North Was Filled With Men and Women Of Proven Battle Mettle.

The Other Options Were Margaery Tyrell, Or Her Brother Willas. Willas Heir To Highgarden, Was The Realm's Most Heavily Sought After Bachelor, and Offering Either Dany Or Rhaenys Would More Than Likely Be Accepted Instantly. But Once Again, There Were Still More and Potentially Better Options, But That Being Said, The Tyrell's Could Field One Hundred Thousand Men In Less Time Than It Would Take The Northern Army To Fully Mass. More Than That However, Was The Fact That The Reach Was The Second Southernmost Region Of The Seven Kingdoms. Irregardless Of Anything Else, There Was Very Few Bad Options For Choosing.