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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 256096" data-attributes="member: 1645">Chapter VI -- Revolt and Revenge (continued)Meanwhile, Veringetorix's agents had brought the Aeduan tribe over to the Gallic cause with a combination of rhetoric, threats, and gold.Diplomacy check with bonuses for credible threats and lots of gold. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />...a force of ten thousand Aeduans was assembled, armed, and marched down to the Auvergne Mountains.  Officially, they were coming to reinforce Caesar's legions, but in reality they intended to attack the Romans from the rear.I can't imagine getting attacked by my own reinforcements.  Awful.  Just think how your players would feel if their allies arrived and started attacking them (with Flanking bonus)...Caesar's famous luck held, because word of the double-cross plan reached him via loyal Aeduans.Getting double-crossed probably isn't so bad if you have spies (or Divinations) that reveal the plan before you're stabbed in the back.Caesar then took the 10th and three other legions and marched twenty-four miles in a day and confronted the Aeduans on the road to Gergovia.  At the sight of the legions appearing unexpectedly in front of them, the young Gallic soldiers promptly threw down their arms and surrendered.  Caesar not only spared them all, he added them to his force.First, I'm so glad I don't have to forced-march 24 miles in a day.  That would be grueling -- especially when you realize they did it in heavy gear on one piece of bread for lunch.Second, how very Sun Tzu: "Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected."  And: "Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."Of course, Sun Tzu also says: "If you march fifty li [miles] in order to outmaneuver the enemy, you will lose the leader of your first division, and only half your force will reach the goal.  If you march thirty li with the same object, two-thirds of your army will arrive."Third -- and I could swear Sun Tzu had something to say on this, but I can't find it -- I'm always surprised by how easily a general can take in enemy forces and make them his own.  I wouldn't've expected that.Giving his troops just three hours' rest, Caesar then turned around and headed back to Gergovia....Pounding on through the night, Caesar brought his four legions back to Gergovia a little before dawn, after marching forty-eight miles in a day and a night.I can't imagine being in any condition to fight.  No sleep, and 48 miles of marching.  Ouch.</blockquote>

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