Understandable, simple but straightforward to the matter.
You are starting to have the mentality of a good developer eh?
Well... Seeing mistakes and errors, especially those already made and in work of others, or in the others, is way easier than looking at mistakes and errors of your work or yourself.
And I am trying to not fuck things up right at the start. Still, planning is one things. Doing them, well... that's a different story.
Amazing meme, if it gets taken down I will riot and vouch for you with a ticket.
You can clearly understand why the brother rebelled if Eric is this retarded to not even use a fake maiden.
His brother is the sly one, a spy in Arenfield that boycotts everything managed to deal more damage than his army, they even noticed MC’s rising power before him!
Dunno Eric, maybe is too stubborn to win that completely forgot his surroundings, the fact that his subordinates are either corrupted or arrogant pricks (The general looks like the only competent guy) and that his political moves make even Dasan pale in comparison.
Or maybe he is a pure imbecile.
Or Chyos underlooked this in the writing.
I'll go with what Samu Al Hydit said.
I understand it's to show how desperate Eric is to win the war, but man, it's like he slept through all the events that show how fickle orcs are.
We hardly know anything about the brothers so far... chance is that Eric knows about MC and is afraid of his rapid ascend in authority and power... his mercaneries are an unknown factor not controllable by him.
He might ignore MCs potential in this war to prevent him to gain any more influence and recognation.
IF the MC has really chances on the throne these actions would atleast make a whole lot more sense.
On the other hand MC currently only has 20 men under his command and I doubt Eric knows anything about Rumah aside of it being at war with the Orcs maybe
Well, MC just did what had to be done and filled the power vaccum left by King and Giron actions or rather lack of those.
Yes, mercenaries are outside of Eric's arms reach. But there ways to persuade them to work as asked. Either by small threat, gentle blackmail or piece of gold. Orcs? How he would even attempt to control them? Cast them out of society? Threat to destroy them? Those animals were made to "fightin' an' winnin'." and they don't care about " 'upid 'umiez!".
In mine opinion out of two unreliable options he picked the worst one.
What is more important to him? Wining the war with his brother King Van, who has powerful allies, huge army and is threating to destroy him and take what's his, or some one of many random guys who found a vaccum and filled it?
Kings would often nobilitate some of thier underlings to knights before battle to boost thier morale. And if that guy would somehow survive the battle and prove valuable that's even better.
Eric taking out Giron and putting MC in his place? That's not only the great way to turn mercenary group into a loyal vassal but also a good way to get rid of useless ally. Also it would be hard to defy King if MC and his group would like to stay in positon of power and keep Arenfield to them.
Yes, currently MC's mercenary group isn't big. That's 19 well trained and equipped lads, MC, Tia, Liv, Ima and of course FRANK!
That's 24 people. But, to be honest, we're limited by the scrpits right now. I, for example, would have 69 fully equipped and and trained lads to protect Arenfield and raid Van's caravans or even skirmish with his forces. Futher more I would fortify at least north part of Arenfield to discourage orcs from raids and south part to hold off Van's forces if they win and push through or manage to launch small scale attack to either raid it or claim it for a while to cut off Eric's supplies.
As for Eric knowing about Rumah and stuff... As i wrote, either his intelligence sucks at it's job or they work against him, or he's an imbecille and doesn't care. Wouldn't be the first one as a king. No matter that. MC is in great positon and has many cards in his hand. The question is... how Chyos is going to allow us to play with them?