Aegon had decided to lead the assault on Storm's End himself, despite the protests of Jon Connington. He had remained in the camps during the taking of Gryffin's Roost and he knew that he had to prove himself in battle sooner or later. Their plan was relatively simple, but it could have gone very wrong very fast. The fact remained, though, that they needed Storm's End to have a solid foothold over the Stormlands. And if they failed to take it, their whole campaign would be surely doomed to failure.