1. Solterra does not equal Cale. 2. Lady Olga was plotting against Cole before the battle started. 3. There was a plan to free the elite soldiers held in captivity so they could take control of the gatehouse while a large army from Lady Olga and the entire Merc group of Lundland Deserters would storm the castles with the gates raised. Also, a Hashanin was hired along the other spies within Cole's castle to assasinate his son, that way there was a failsafe if the gate holding didn't work out. 4. Cole was going to be attacked on four or five different fronts causing his armies to be split up too harshly to make a suitable defense. There was 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers in total, along with strategy, all the morale, and numbers in siege weapons. 5. The plan was not to take control of any fiefs, only destroy the defenses as quick as possible and move on. Lady Olga would have been given the spoils. 6. There was a plan to get into the Keep/Mansion of Lord Cole within a day, perhaps even less as long as everything had went according to plan. 7. Solterra was not out to control, he was going to save his sister and leave Lundlands back to the Ordained Kingdom, which where he would have become a general in their army and his sister would later become a mercenary leader. 8. Flooby himself said the entire battle strategy I had created to take down Lord Cole was only second to another, the other being in the beta before this.
There is one thing that is the same between I and Solterra, it's that we make actions, not threats. Cole had no chance, and the mercenary group within would have lost everything for fighting without cause.
But no worries, in Lundland 3, there will be a new, much greater threat. No more neutral good or fighting for what is morally right. Lundland 3 will not have mercy, and no personal ties.