Be'lal. whose overwhelming greed for a sa'angreal (who you claim don't like that sort of thing) led him to pass the best opportunity in the series to kill rand. if he hadn't insisted on letting rand firstly take callandor to then take it from him and struck straight away without the whole laughable fighting scene then he would have had rand on a plate. but yeah he's the only one really yes, but this is only true if you have the element of surprise. it's true of any battle that if you have the higher ground or are hitting from the flank/rear are attacking when the enemy is unready that numbers (strength) can be largely discounted. but i think they're all clever enough to know that if you can hold the greater strength then you should and that it should certainly not be something to sniff out. conversely a search for sa(angreal) should not be of greater importance than creating a power base or manipulating events etc.

yes to most of this. i mean let's face it the reason the forsaken were a force at all during the AoL was because of the DO, he was basically a religion and our own past has shown what the fervour of religion can do. had they have been 13 powerful channellers they wouldn't have lasted long, but with millions of followers (whom they directed with the DO's will) they almost conquered the world

yes to the fact they think all they need to is survive till TG. when the Bore was opened a whole city was wasted. thousands of square miles of land became wasted (the blight). asmodean believes that as soon as the DO is free he might as well be dead.

however there ought to be some jostling for position to be named Nae'blis. there ought to be a compunction to prove to the DO and to each other that they are the biggest, cleverest nastiest piece of work out of the all of the forsaken. and yeah, some of them go for it, for all moghedien and asmodean are derided, their plans were the ballsiest of them all. asmo seeking the super sa'angreal and moghedien was going to control rand with the domination band (though honestly i think if she ever had have gotten it she would not dared have gotten close enough to use it)

aginor and balthamel went for it. be'lal was too dismissive of rand. lanfear was a joke. so was sammael (where was the sense of bluffing to graendal he had a truce with rand?). rahvin was a bit unfortunate, had rand not had such a strong emotional connection to the daughter of the woman he was trying to manipulate would rand have gone after him?