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*''If you want your men to become farmers, issue them spades''. | *''If you want your men to become farmers, issue them spades''. | ||
*''It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country. This means that both you and hie have exactly the same aim in mind.'' | |||
*''When confronted with an impregnable fortress, well-garrisoned and well-stocked with provisions - endeavour to be the man on the inside.'' | *''When confronted with an impregnable fortress, well-garrisoned and well-stocked with provisions - endeavour to be the man on the inside.'' | ||
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*''Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum'' (I Can See Your House From Up Here) - meant, in the opinion of [[71-hour Ahmed]], to be both a boast and a threat, but now just a line of ornmental masonry in what was Ankh-Morpork's Klatchian colony of Tacticum. | *''Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum'' (I Can See Your House From Up Here) - meant, in the opinion of [[71-hour Ahmed]], to be both a boast and a threat, but now just a line of ornmental masonry in what was Ankh-Morpork's Klatchian colony of Tacticum. | ||
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Revision as of 20:00, 11 October 2013
Soldierly advice about the art of warfare contained within a book by the great general Callus Tacticus, whose very name has become synonymous across the Disc with the tactics employed by literate soldiery.
Nuggets of martial wisdom
- If you want your men to become farmers, issue them spades.
- It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country. This means that both you and hie have exactly the same aim in mind.
- When confronted with an impregnable fortress, well-garrisoned and well-stocked with provisions - endeavour to be the man on the inside.
- Power at a point! (echoes General Guderian's summation of the Blitzkrieg strategy: find the "schwerpunkt" of the enemy's line and hit him there with everything you have. Then just keep moving.)
- Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum (I Can See Your House From Up Here) - meant, in the opinion of 71-hour Ahmed, to be both a boast and a threat, but now just a line of ornmental masonry in what was Ankh-Morpork's Klatchian colony of Tacticum.