We have been in direct confrontations with the Kingship of the East and have lost dearly because of it.
Since then we have ignored their taunts and bivouacs in the Stonetalon Mountains. We do not have the personnel or the resources to confront the Kingship head-on and I will not see us defeated or demoralized again. Tsaphaan has been relaying some of his own stories to me in his small skirmishes. He told me of how he kept Hinik's wife and his "harem" sapped. He also told me of the times where he snuck behind their lines during their bivouacs and killed the flight master. Those stories gave me two ideas: One was to keep Hinik alive but not his bodyguards. The other was to disable nearby flight masters and attack a town to draw them out and force them to go overland while we left as they were arriving.
The second idea became the thesis of what would become Operation: Wing Clip. I spent some time gathering information on Alliance flight patterns and memorized them. It was a very broad plan but it was one that could be readily adapted. I talked with Nightwarder Asarelah about my plan. We set a date and hour of assembly and extended the invitation to other Horde orders as well as a Nyx aspirant. Our spies also kept tabs on Kingship movements.
Assembly began at the eighth hour after noon in the Valley of Spirits in Orgrimmar. The number of stealthers was low but we had enough to stop all flights within an area while we sacked towns and settlements. Our spies reported members of the Kingship gathering in their Eastern Kingdom headquarters of Menethil Harbor. I opened a portal to Undercity and with the exception of our stealthers, had everyone stay until we summoned in the rest of our contingent. Our stealthers were deployed first with locking down flight paths in Menethil Harbor, Refuge Pointe, and Thelsamar. The fourth sealther stayed with us for our first target.
Afterwards, I ordered us to Tarren Mill for our main staging ground.
When the stealthers outside of Hillsbrad were in place, I would move us close to Southshore and order the attack. Four flight masters were down immediately. Some Kingship members headed outside of their keep to see about the alarm bells only to find a dead flight master. My main contingent burned Southshore to the ground, eradicating Stormwind influence from Hillsbrad.
Our next stop was Refuge Pointe. All we had to do was "finish the job" of cutting off resources to the Alliance from Arathi Basin. Afterwards, it was off to Thelsamar, which was a reinforcement point for the Badlands. That quickly became a Horde town.
Spies were telling us that Kingship were starting to scatter from Menethil. It was time for us to strike. With my Slow Fall, we "jumped" into the Wetlands. I had the stealthers north of Thandol Span withdraw and join us: We were going to take the Kingship's banquet hall and portal out. We gave Kingship time to respond but they could not rescue their keep fast enough. In the end, I was laughing as I stepped back to Orgrimmar.
We went from being taunted to wearing them down. I will want to see more of this.
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