With a nod, Hyarmenion silently agreed that they should have indeed headed off to Rausten. He assumed that they would have been able to take it, especially with the gear that they had. That same nod had soundlessly agreed that her thinking was not flawed.<br/><br/>She was right that if they blended into the snow and used the terrain right, then they would have been able to accomplish any military goal that they set for themselves.<br/><br/>They had to be very smart, however, since the enemy could very well have ended up using the terrain to their own advantage as well if they weren't completely careful.<br/><br/>Naturally he was also thinking that they were going to need a fairly large supply of water in order to cross the wastelands that this area became in winter. Nevertheless, they were also going to need some way to prevent that water and any of their other supplies from freezing.<br/><br/>"If we do this, then we're going to need to dedicate everything that we have left to it in a single attack. Otherwise, it will fail miserably because we hadn't taken advantage of it when we should have. They'd push us back in the winter like that if we don't."