56:52never interrupt you're enemy when they're making a mistake
56:52I mean there are cases where generals were not killed because they were bad
56:53"Never interrupt the enemy while he is making a mistake."
56:53Unless they learn but yeah
他
56:53"never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake" is classic
56:56Sun Tzu would approve. Don't interrupt a mistake.
他
56:56there's probably an art of war quote about this
56:57let him keep being a liability
57:00There's a book that goes over that
57:02That literaly happens in the lore
57:03Classic geopolitical shenanigans
57:04Yeah but where’s the fun in it
57:04:_pippaSmug::_pippaSmug::_pippaSmug:
57:04tho, normally after a massive blunder a general doesnt stay in charge
57:06I for one wanna see you play more of totalwar warhammer
57:08The IRG at every strategy meeting:
57:08yo pippa playing 4d chess
57:08fumbling his own army, many such cases
他
57:09Same reason, a certain Austrian painter was left alive.
57:09depends on how capable his ancillaries
57:10eventually his guys would kill him right?
57:10:_pippaSmug::_pippaSmug::_pippaSmug:
57:12always leave an escape route is common strategy knowledge
57:15:_pippaSmug::_pippaSmug::_pippaSmug:
57:17Your hindsight it almost 20/20 pippa
57:17:_pippaSmug::_pippaSmug::_pippaSmug:
57:17War was gentlemanly. The generals always just kind of left after battlem
57:17Sounds like something Sun Tzu would suggest.
57:17But yes you're right, that's the correct thing to do