Just for the record, the offensive into Aurvandil had been in planning for over a month. It may have been what you had hoped we would do, sure. But we had already made the decision to do it before you invaded Barca.
This was planned before our invasion of the Grand Duchy of Fissoa, which in part was done to get D'Hara to attack Falkirk (Making them our wasp cake) and as an analogue to see how much damage we could do with a third of total forces looting overseas for a week.
All Mendicant and Allomere do is spend hours discussing plans based on everything we think our opponents might do and then deciding on what we think is the best long term course of action to ensure our complete victory under any circumstance. Aurvandil never does anything that isn't intended to have multiple consequences so that if the main reason behind it fails, the secondary or tertiary reasons don't, that we we always advance our war aims regardless of the outcome. The invasion of Barca, for example had about five distinct and separate reasons for doing it, and all them were successful. The invasion of the Grand Duchy had about four, and they were all mostly achieved.
