This is me storing my thoughts about the war that Calvus' plans on waging in a few years. This will be constantly revisited by me as I edit it, adding new thoughts and concerns. The feel I am going for is during the war to be like last season and a half of Deep Space Nine, where Nemus Animae will remain the focus of play where battle reports and lists of the dead will come in, and if people want to play the occasional combat out in the DMZ then so be it, and for the end of the war I'm going for post-WW1 France.

Pre-war setup: Annex the Sudetenland, train the local populace to rough militia quality, start monastic school for children to make them into Calvus' Youth Corp whose job it will be to rebuild the Wide Valley after the war has been fought, try to get Ventrian assistance, get Wendelians and Quintus Opacans (not at the same time) to do research on and try to assassinate and take the armor of a Red Moon priest, also get them to do further research on Millers, get Gens Draconis to commit to fighting and be willing to be in the same vicinity as other Savacions, get as many Gens support as possible, The Pass fortress built, get Prince to send an envoy to the Gaetani King to delay any Gaetani buildup for war, get Caligatus to help with the campaign planning and oversight, possibly talk to Wolf Elves depending on what Order mages think after we capture one, keep Ndape's training oriented towards mass casualty warfare,

War: Open earth spell covered by illusion works on trapping/killing a Red Moon Priest. Order army will be split into three operations: Gens Draconis w/support will be the shock troops devastating the people and the country side, Wendelians and/or Quintus Opacans (again, not working together just with the same agenda) will assassinate Millers and Red Moon Priests, the latter when not in their armor, and disrupt key points, the rest will operate as an organized army. If war is prolonged eventually leading to poisoning of wells, offering position and wealth to any Gaetani who helps bring down Millers or Red Moon Priests. Few magical peoples deaths but massive general population deaths, unless the Order can pull off another slaughter of Millers in one of the adjacent Miller regions (which is part of the plan). Gens Draconis and friends I think should be scary good once let loose in open, no holds barred war, which eventually when the Order/Wide Valley forces come into areas of horrific slaughter will adversely affect the Wide Valley troops morale. Personal view is Opacans will not be so good at the actual assassinating, the Wendelians will be better, but the Opacans will be the Q of the Order as far as discovering what works against the magical heroes of Gaetan.

Outcome of war: This is just what I'm aiming for right now, events can happen inspired by anyone, perhaps even myself that could change any of these outcomes. Just making it clear that I am looking for a post WW1 feel not a triumphant Roman general coming back from the campaigns. Several miles of both countries (Gaetan and the Wide Valley) devastated by the warfare, with sections that are unlivable due to war time catastrophes/curses, Doomed brother dies, populations of both countries brought to post WW1 French standards, complex political outcome, possibly meaning that the Order is on uneasy footing in Wide Valley but perhaps Calvus is seen well by the Order all the while Calvus is burdened with a little-brother's-death-angst-slump.