[Forrest]

I am going to say the obvious.

Expand.

Buy cheap indie fluff to fill out your ranks. They can be amassed quick and can do the job in great enough numbers. They break quick so having back up indie commanders waiting to pick up the cowards is important. The up side to this is that their losses can be low. Multi waves can wear down strong provinces.

Get the scouts out.

Jumping Ryleh quick is great gain if you can get to their capitol before they know what is happening.

Ench 5 friendly currents.

Con 6 bottles of living water. If you plan for it you can build around this. Five or ten of these can be very nice. Water elementals that get killed every battle and are there for the next.