Agumentic Are you? Attacking Ardford with conventional troops sounds like a good way to cause a massive and devastating war, compared to an airship or teleportation assault.
an amy force will be threatening, no need to a bloodshed.
Agumentic In general, what's best will probably be heavily dependent on your Arclentian/Ivalan Acceptance scores, similar to Yhilin coup in 3AW. If they are high, it would probably be better to act relatively softly, declaring an ultimatum to the Church to stop its attack on the Doom King and concentrating on the Crystal with teleportation or something like that. If they are not, it's better to be prepared to wage a conventional war with airship reserves and armies.
i think we can say goodby to our acceptances, after the crystal will be destroyed. higher the score, less the problem, but it will no surprise me if they will be irrilevant after the end of the next section.
Cazador I hope we'll get some diplomacy option in Ardford, with Tyna soon becoming queen and all that, so I didn't go for a strength option. But you could also be right.
we are marching against the church, not ardoheim, alonon is still king, and tyna is the designated heir, i don't think will face ardoheim military, but church force.