The meeting went on for a long time, but it yielded good results. In the end, the Standing Army decided to use both the carrot and the stick, starting with the three quilboar tribes around the Valley of Trials.
The method was simple enough: they would copy what they had done in the Hinterlands, where they had hired Vilebranch trolls to work in exchange for food. If the quilboar agreed to help, all the better. They would receive food and be left alone for the time being. If they refused, the elves would find ways to stir up a few small centaur tribes now and then, provoking them into attacking those quilboar tribes. After this happened several times, the high elves would step in. Whether they secured cooperation through force or friendship would depend on the circumstances at the time.
Why make things so complicated? Mainly because many of the soldiers recruited by the quilboar Yu Lin Bloodhawk had left in the Valley of Trials came from those three tribes. The Standing Army officers were afraid of provoking a mutiny among their quilboar soldiers.
In Yu Lin Bloodhawk's discussions with his officers, the Quilboar Heavy Auxiliary Army was intended to become a core force of the Quel'Danil Standing Army. They had no desire to alienate those troops. That meant they had to put a little more thought into bringing those quilboar tribes into line.
Indeed, in the plans Yu Lin Bloodhawk and his officers had drawn up, the Quilboar Heavy Auxiliary Army would be a core force. Its equipment and various allowances would be issued on the same basis as those of the Vilebranch troll troops in Quel'Danil in the Hinterlands. Beyond these core troops, there would also be Kalimdor auxiliary forces. These would not be limited to quilboar; harpies,