CHAPTER 3. ATTACK BY STRATAGEM
1. Soldier Tzu said: On Control Point maps, we take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is impossible. It is better to destroy an army entire than to destroy it in bits, to destroy a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them individually.
2. To fight and conquer in all your battles is supreme excellence which consists in breaking the enemy's resistance with fighting.
3. Thus the highest form of generalship is to override the enemy's plans; the next best is to seperate the enemy's forces; the next in order is to attack the enemy's army anywhere; and the worst policy of all is to attack well defended maggots.
4. The rule is, not to besiege well defended maggots if it can possibly be avoided. The preparation of Ubercharges, Engineer's buildings, and various implements of war, can take up entire rounds; and the volleys of rockets against defences will take entire rounds also.
5. The enemy, when they are unable to control their irritation of defeat, will launch his men to the assault like swarming ants, with the result that his maggot scum re-spawn, while the point remains untaken. Such are the disastrous effects of a siege.
6. Therefore their unskillful leader must not be allowed to subdue the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their points without laying siege to them; he overthrows their filthy maggot infested base without lengthy operations in the field.
7. With his forces intact he will dispute the mastery of the Maggot Empire, and thus, without losing a man, his triumph will be complete. This is the method of attacking by stratagem.
8. It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two.
9. If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we must not flee from him.
10. Hence, though an great fight against maggot scum may be made by a small force, in the end it must be captured by the larger force.
11. Now I am the bulwark of the State; if the bulwark is complete at all points; the State will be strong; if the bulwark is defective, the State will be weak.
12. There are three ways in which the Administrator can bring misfortune upon us:
13. (1) By commanding us to advance or to retreat, being ignorant of the fact that we cannot obey. This is called hobbling!
14. (2) By attempting to govern us in the same way as she administers the world, being ignorant of the conditions which obtain in our fighting force. This causes restlessness in your minds.
15. (3) By employing the officers of this army without discrimination, through ignorance of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances. This shakes your confidence.
16. But when you are restless and distrustful, trouble is sure to come from the maggot company, BLU. This is simply bringing anarchy into our force, and flinging our certain victory away.
17. Thus you may know that there are five essentials for victory: (1) We will win because I know when to fight and when not to fight. (2) We will win because you know how to handle both superior and inferior maggots. (3) We will win because you are animated by the same spirit throughout all our classes. (4) We will win because, when prepared, waits to take the enemy unprepared. (5) We will win when we have military capacity and is not interfered with by the Administrator.
18. Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know my hatred of useless slackers, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles or punishment. If you know punishment but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat and punishment. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will be punished after every battle.