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Capitalist Missionary
I was reading my Sun Wu Tzus Art of War, with the intention of finding passages that could be applied to Civilization IV, and I think I found some good ones. All of these are altered by me, but from the statements translated in the Thomas Cleary Shambhala edition. It is a wonderful edition, and anyone planning on reading it should buy this edition. I do realize that the entire book is on this site, but I just found these to be the best for the game.
War is the Way of the state. It is the Ground of Life and Death, the way of survival or destructions, so it is important to examine it.
The important thing in a military campaign is not persistence; It is victory.
The general rule for a military is to try not to destroy a nation (this is only really applicable if you want to make the country your vassle.)
The lowest thing to do is to lay seige to a city. That is only done at a last resort. (once again, really can only imply if you want to make the country your vassle.)
Invincibility is a matter of defense. Vulnerability is a matter of attacking.
Defense is a matter of insufficiency, while attack is a matter of surplus.
How can mere numbers insure you victory? They cannot.
To plunder a locality, divide up your troops.
Do not attack crack troops.
The considerations of the Intelligent always include both harm and benifiet.
An army likes high places and dislikes low places.
When they see an advantage and do not attack, they are weary [and not have enough troops to hold cities].
On equal terrain, if you see an advantage, do not risk attacking their troops.
Those with equal momentum who over attack troops are in a rush. Those soldiers who are storng but whose leaders are weak are waiting. Those whose leaders are strong but have weak soldiers are going to fall. When leaders are angy and fight out of spite are going to fall.
When certain victory is known, it is appropriate to attack, regardless of anything else. When victory is not ensured, do not attack, regardless of anything else. One advances without seaking glory, retreats without fearing blame, and who only wants to serve the nation, will.
When you see an opening, take advantage of it immediately.
Take more care of your spies than any other military unit.
Spies are essential to military operations, and armies will depend on them for their success.
Please tell me if these help. Thanks.
War is the Way of the state. It is the Ground of Life and Death, the way of survival or destructions, so it is important to examine it.
The important thing in a military campaign is not persistence; It is victory.
The general rule for a military is to try not to destroy a nation (this is only really applicable if you want to make the country your vassle.)
The lowest thing to do is to lay seige to a city. That is only done at a last resort. (once again, really can only imply if you want to make the country your vassle.)
Invincibility is a matter of defense. Vulnerability is a matter of attacking.
Defense is a matter of insufficiency, while attack is a matter of surplus.
How can mere numbers insure you victory? They cannot.
To plunder a locality, divide up your troops.
Do not attack crack troops.
The considerations of the Intelligent always include both harm and benifiet.
An army likes high places and dislikes low places.
When they see an advantage and do not attack, they are weary [and not have enough troops to hold cities].
On equal terrain, if you see an advantage, do not risk attacking their troops.
Those with equal momentum who over attack troops are in a rush. Those soldiers who are storng but whose leaders are weak are waiting. Those whose leaders are strong but have weak soldiers are going to fall. When leaders are angy and fight out of spite are going to fall.
When certain victory is known, it is appropriate to attack, regardless of anything else. When victory is not ensured, do not attack, regardless of anything else. One advances without seaking glory, retreats without fearing blame, and who only wants to serve the nation, will.
When you see an opening, take advantage of it immediately.
Take more care of your spies than any other military unit.
Spies are essential to military operations, and armies will depend on them for their success.
Please tell me if these help. Thanks.
). In the game, spies come very late and has v. limited capacity. In early game, converting an AI city to your state religion will let you know this city's info, open border will allow you to send in units to scout out your target's territory, in late game you can use flighter to do recon. The power ranking will give you some info about the rough military strength of your target. So most likely Sun Tzu will put conscientious effort to know his enemies using all these means. Spies are just one trivial mean only.
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