Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-36241051-20180803194036/@comment-31521399-20180815083233

The one thing I don't get about his plan is why did he take so long to start gathering the stones? I mean he dosen't seem to need intel since he has a sixth sense of sorts allowing him knowledge of each stone's location (Except for the Soul Stone) which I assume since he has no reason to know two are on Earth or that the Tesseract survived Asgard's destruction. It also dosen't make sense he would be unable to take it since his army is able to easily conquer and massacre entire planets. It also dosen't make much sense since the people he chooses to gain the stones are rather untrustworthy (Loki and Ronan) and more likely to backstab him (It's even worse when you consider he gave Loki a Stone to conquer Earth)

While you could argue he didn't do it since there were characters like Odin and Ego running around he A) did not even know of Ego's existence and B) has taken on people comparable to Odin at his prime (which he isn't at since he failed to break out of Loki's spell and seems much weaker before his death)