"To battle! We will drive the rebels from our country and make it strong again!" The gathered noblemen 'hurrah' in unison.
Congratulations! Houlandin III has embarked onto a Civil War!
It's the same as Military Campaign, so you know the drill by now. If he losses, however, Lady Eiri becomes the Queen with full rights.
As your army, after three days' march east, camps for the night, the agents bring forth some information.
"Sire, the rebels have control over several fortified and populous cities in the east, so this will be a long and bloody conflict with lots of casualties
*, I'm afraid. They have little amount of wealth, it seems
*, so our economy shouldn't suffer too much. Unfortunately the governor of Augas decided to sit sight as apparently there have been some incidents with Parsians since your rejection of the marriage proposal." He sighs.
"Unfortunately, my informants have determined that the noblemen have gathered lots of support from military types and control about the same amount of forces you do
*, so I advise you that you try to minimize your losses or you might suffer defeat." You thank him for the report.
Two days later, as you're crossing some hilly terrain, your scouts report an advancing army from the east! It's comprised of spearmen, archers and flanked by small units of cavalry. Standard deployment, really. It's about one-third the size of your forces.
A) Take a defensive position here and wait for the enemy!
B) March forward and smash the inferior force to dust!