You really have to respect historical conquerors who could get tens of thousands of solders and dozens of governors/generals/nobles with huge egos to follow their plan. Just trying to get 5 people to follow a simple plan is exhausting.

I always try to herd my group around when I'm a player because it's great to get out of the GM chair once in awhile. I have very little tolerance for fucking around. We're all busy people with other things in our lives FFS.