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<blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 291819" data-attributes="member: 1645">From XIII. THE USE OF SPIES:&nbsp;1. Sun Tzu said:&nbsp; Raising a host of a hundred thousand&nbsp; &nbsp; men and marching them great distances entails heavy loss&nbsp; &nbsp; on the people and a drain on the resources of the State. &nbsp; &nbsp; The daily expenditure will amount to a thousand ounces&nbsp; &nbsp; of silver.&nbsp; There will be commotion at home and abroad,&nbsp; &nbsp; and men will drop down exhausted on the highways. &nbsp; &nbsp; As many as seven hundred thousand families will be impeded&nbsp; &nbsp; in their labor.&nbsp;2. Hostile armies may face each other for years,&nbsp; &nbsp; striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. &nbsp; &nbsp; This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's&nbsp; &nbsp; condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred&nbsp; &nbsp; ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height&nbsp; &nbsp; of inhumanity.&nbsp;5. Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits;&nbsp; &nbsp; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience,&nbsp; &nbsp; nor by any deductive calculation.&nbsp;6. Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only&nbsp; &nbsp; be obtained from other men.A daily expenditure of a thousand ounces of silver!&nbsp; Wow.&nbsp; I enjoyed yet another conflict between reality and D&amp;D: &quot;Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits...&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mmadsen, post: 291819, member: 1645"] From XIII. THE USE OF SPIES: [Color=Silver] 1. Sun Tzu said: Raising a host of a hundred thousand men and marching them great distances entails heavy loss on the people and a drain on the resources of the State. The daily expenditure will amount to a thousand ounces of silver. There will be commotion at home and abroad, and men will drop down exhausted on the highways. As many as seven hundred thousand families will be impeded in their labor. 2. Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity. 5. Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation. 6. Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men. [/Color] A [i]daily[/i] expenditure of a [i]thousand[/i] ounces of silver! Wow. I enjoyed yet another conflict between reality and D&D: "Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits..." [/QUOTE]

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