[Phase 3] Jockeying for position, and also strategy [Act 3]

While it is called a council of war, it is as much an arena to clamor for positions and honors as to agree upon strategy, although the latter is under debate too, though a man half asleep might be forgiven to miss that detail. To the north, the question is whether to meet the advancing Brackens with a wall of pikes, if the foolish Southron gloryheads convinces Lord Bracken to put them in front of massed cavalry, their Vanguard will end in a mass of horses kicking and screaming in their death throes. Lord Blackwood is disinclined to listen to Ser Morgarth and Bloodraven on that account, but they make a compelling argument. However, to many a Southron knight, this sounds like a folly, everyone knows that on a flat field like this, infantry will lose against heavy horse, they proved that in the Prince's Pass, and the Dornish had spears aplenty. Also, fighting on foot is unmanly, and how is an individual knight going to win honors and glory when denied to charge nobly at the enemy?

At the other end of the field, Bittersteel is in full agreement with his hated half-brother as to what will happen should the Blackwoods line up pikes and the Brackens obligingly charge straight into them, facing down a similar pack of Southron knights with the same notions of what glorious battle looks like, and how to win a battle on a flat field.

Participation:
-Characters who engage in duels prior to the main battle and are not compelled to take a certain stance by drawbacks should only test for the purpose of determining what roles one might pick, their tests will not count for other purposes.
-Generally, characters who does not engage in duels will tend to be preferred when handing out command roles.

Choose one stance:
Blackwood: A: Defensive Vanguard of packed pike. B: Massed heavy cavalry.
Bracken: C: Advance on foot if Blackwoods line up pikes. D: Massed heavy cavalry.
-The Bracken choice is only relevant if Blackwood picks option A.
-If Blackwoods picks option B, the opening of the battle will be opposed mass cavalry charge.
-If Blackwoods picks option A, The Bracken vanguard will advance on foot, or charge the lines with knights and men at arms.

-Characters should make a warfare (tactics) TN 12 test, a success is sufficient to determine that advancing on foot is the most sensible option against massed pike.
-This is TN 9 for Mikel and Davos for not having been though in accordance to Reacher traditions.
-On a critical failure, it seems obvious that fools lining up on foot should be ridden down.

Challenge

Audience TN 12
Simple Intrigue (Convince) TN 12
Warfare (Tactics) TN 9
Warfare (Strategy) TN 9

-Total DoS determines priority for assigned roles and which strategy to take for the Vanguard.
-May spend a point of glory or a faction point to add +1D to audience and intrigue tests, as well as +1 DoS to each test for the purpose of determining the order one might chose roles.
-Critical failure counts as -3 DoS.
-Audience test DoS, then Reputation ranks, then status ranks, then audience test result, then reroll are used to resolve tie-breakers.
-PC's generally gets to pick first, with caveats:
-NPC's with higher warfare or fighting ranks that also score more DoS (or win the tie-breaker) can pick command and combat roles respectively before you.

-Additionally, calculate audience+intrigue DoS separately, rank the results from highest to lowest, with tie-breaker as above.
-The tactics+strategy DoS of the highest ranked character is given a weight of 10.
-The warfare DoS of the second ranked is given a weight of 9, third ranked 8 and so on, all characters are given a weight of at least 1.
-Sum up weight*warfare DoS, the total number is added to the pre-battle strength of one's side.

Consideration for Qualities:
Decadent: Attempts to compel being "late", imposing -1 on the warfare tests, on a critical failure, this imposes -1D.
Impatient: The -1D applies to the warfare tests.
Lascivious: Attempts to compel being "late", imposing -1 on the warfare tests, on a critical failure, this imposes -1D.
Prejudiced: Attempts to compel arguing against the advice of a character in the trigger group if present, reducing the weight of their advice by 1 per DoS you scored higher than them on the simple intrigue (the character with the lowest result is chosen against), on a critical failure, this applies to all applicable targets.
Proud: Attempts to compel arguing against the advice of a character who disagrees with you on the main plan for the vanguard, reducing the weight of their advice by 1 per DoS you scored higher than them on the simple intrigue (the character with the lowest result is chosen against), on a critical failure, this applies to all applicable targets.
Romantic: A simple intrigue (4D+1B+2, persuasion, not deception) attempts to compel you into believing that cavalry is the better option, in which case the tactics test to determine this is treated as a critical failure (and counts as a compulsion for the sake of being allowed to participate if dueling)
Vainglorious: Attempts to compel arguing for option B and D respectively, gain +2 to this test for each DoS on the optional tactics test (-1D if critical failure on it).