aegon the conqueror is kinda overrated in my opinion
i feel like both fans and westerosi historians see aegon the conqueror as one of if not the greatest targaryen king to ever live, but i personally think that's not really the case.
first of all i'm not trying to say that he was a terrible of incompetent king, but he wasn't the genius mastermind as everyone makes him out to be.
-First of all the conquest: tbh it was only possible due to the dragons, at least he knew how to use the properly, i guess. But on the other hand, his enemies had no idea how to deal with them and their strategies were kinda stupid. Like harren Hoare hiding in harrenhal, which caused aegon to turn it into a litteral stone oven. or how about house lannister and house gardener, marching out in a huge dry field, they might as well have put a sign above their heads which read "here we are, please burn us."
argillac was luky a storm came in and was actually winning, until he got arrogant and kept attacking, which caused rhaenys to burn him and his army to fall appart.
aegon was pretty much playing the game on ultra easy diffculty which made people think he was somehow a tactical genius. but once an enemy knows how to deal with dragons (eg dorne), that's it, aegon doesn't know what to do, and thus failed to conqueror dorne. (meaning he is slightly competent at best)
-second, the supposed consilidation, according to the books after his conquest he "consolidated" his reign. yet the nanosecond he died rebellions appeared everywhere, yes his useless son aenys is to blame, but to me the quick rebellions to me shows that the realm was only united out of fear for aegon, rather than by any centralizing policies. the consoldiation came only during jaehaerys reign as is said by maester Umbert 'Aegon the Dragon and his sisters conquered the Seven Kingdoms (six of them, at least), but it was Jaehaerys the Conciliator who truly made them one.'
so aegon wasn't a great politician either, just a average one.
people also praise him for allowing the nobles much autonomy, thus making them loyal, but as said before, it was probably their fear of balerion which kept them in line.
which brings me to my final point. This isn't just aegon's mistake but the mistake of every targaryen king, which is the absolute lack of centralisation of the kingdom. Aegon has direct control over the aegonfort (later kings landing) and dragonstone... that's it. what he should have done is turn huge and importants lands into crown domain, under his own rule rather than that of a lord.
"but the nobles will never accept this" Who cares, aegon can just burn them, et voila they will hand over their lands. heck he doesn't even need to revoke them just turn the reach (which has conviently falen without a rule because the gardeners went extinct) into crown domains, making the king the ruler of the biggest of the seven kingdoms plus makes him control a big part of the food supply.
does aegon or any targaryen try this? nope...
not a single piece of centralisation, no royal courts, barely any royal laws etc.
So conclusion, aegon targaryen is an average competent ruler but not the genius mastermand tactician/politician as everyone makes him out to be.
do you agree with me? please let me know i would love to hear your opinions.
also if i made mistakes, sorry english isn't my mother tongue