Aldrath's consolidation plan changed the terrain of the campaign in the way that major decisions changed terrain, not by removing the difficulties but by replacing them with different ones whose character the existing defensive responses could address.
The supply depot consolidation eliminated the dispersed convoys. The relay stations' replacement by direct messenger communication made the Throat Teams' interception operations more difficult because single riders on varied routes were harder to predict than network traffic on fixed relay paths.
The consolidated camp's tighter geographic footprint reduced the isolated elements that the Hammer Teams had been finding outside the main body's protective umbrella.
In exchange, the consolidation produced a force whose supply chain now ran in daylight on heavily escorted routes whose predictability was enforced by the reduced number of available paths.
