The pretender had camped two miles south of their position. He had over forty thousand men. Ten from the Golden Company, accompanied by a dozen elephants. Fifteen from Dorne, five thousand squeezed out from the Stormlands, and ten thousand from the Crownlands. During the war of the five kings, the lords of the crownlands were always late and simply avoided battle. Now that there was a Targaryen, they quickly rallied behind him. Aegon chose to go for the Riverlands instead of the Westerlands, and Jaime was forced to intercept him, lest they lose all the Riverlords.