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Gideon Ploy
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Having a vast force at your disposal is often crucial to defeating the enemy. Not only do you have more manpower to get things done, skills to work with, plenty of backup if things get ugly, an army is above all intimidating. But what if you don't have a whole bunch of Mooks on your employee roster? If it's just you and some friends or even a solo act? That's where the Gideon Ploy comes in. Through clever acting, disguises, misdirection, and decoys, you convince your opponents you have far more help than you really do. Maybe you just need sound effects to convince them The Cavalry is on its way. Maybe you have some scarecrows you can dress up in armor. Maybe you can use some holograms. ...Too bad you can't figure out how to recruit. May overlap with the Backup Bluff. Examples |
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Starcraft: The High Templar's Hallucination skill creates an illusion of the target, which can be used to fool the enemy into attacking to protect the real unit. In Starcraft 2 the same thing can be done by the Sentry unit, except the Sentry doesn't need to copy an existing unit. |
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Redwall: In Salamandastron, Feragho has his forces approach the titular mountain at night with a torch in each hand, trying to make their force appear twice as large as it actually is. The veteran defenders of Salamandastron are neither fooled nor impressed. | |
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The Expanse. When the crew of the Rocinante first meet Fred Johnson on Tycho Station, they claim their spaceship has a squad of Martian Space Marines inside. Johnson isn't impressed, saying if that were true the marines would be present as a show of force. | |
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The Dogs of War. When planning the coup d'état to topple President Kimba, Shannon notes that his tiny force of mercenaries would only convince Kimba's men to fight if he attacked 'by the book'. Instead he plans a direct attack on the palace and barracks using mortars, bazookas and gas-operated foghorns. Faced with a sudden and overwhelming onslaught of sound and violence in the middle of the night, Kimba's Praetorian Guard Run or Die. | |
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In Moriarty the Patriot, during The Scandal in the British Empire arc, Sherlock rushes to save Irene Adler from The Lord of Crime, but doesn't actually want to involve the police. Instead, he rustles up the Baker Street Irregulars, John Watson, and some shoddy costumes to act as if the police are coming. Subverted in that Albert didn't buy the ploy for a minute. | |
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Referenced in The Guns of the South, where Forrest, during a parley, tries to convince a time-traveling enemy soldier to surrender. The enemy laughs, figuring that Forrest will employ this trope; Forrest responds "I used tricks when I was weak; I ain't weak now." | |
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In One Piece, the first scene where Luffy, Zoro and Nami first meet Usopp, has Usopp try to scare them away with pirate flags in bushes being moved around by his three kid friends while claiming to have a pirate army at his command; Nami sees right through it. Usopp often lies to his enemies about having an exaggerated number of men at his command and no one ever buys it. | |
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The Professionals. When infiltrating the hacienda of Jesus Raza, the eponymous professionals set off explosions to make the banditos think they are being attacked by the Mexican army, who would start such an attack with an artillery bombardment. This sends everyone to the walls instead of looking inward. | |
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Hearts of Iron IV: The La Resistance Downloadable Content added the ability to create mock divisions of troops as part of its espionage mechanics, reflecting Real Life. | |
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A variation occurs in Joe vs. Elan School during Joe's efforts to take down the titular abusive school. The Elan School's online presence touts an attendance figure of 150 residents in three houses, but a recently-freed inmate named Katie tells Joe that the recession actually brought it down to approximately 35 students in one house. | |
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This is how Túrin joins the Men of Brethil in The Children of Húrin. He comes across a group of them being attacked by orcs in the forest so he hides in the bushes making enough noise to sound like a small army and leaps into action acting like a captain leading his troops. The orcs run away and are killed by Túrin and the Men of Brethil who then get confused as to why Túrin's men are taking so long to join the battle. | |
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Girl Genius: The Jagers pull off a reverse Gideon Ploy when they return to Mechanicsburg, trying to get the enemy to let their guard down by making their forces look much smaller than they really are. While some of the Jagers take part in a very slow showy march to town the majority of them sneak secretly in ahead of their brothers in arms through the tunnels. | |
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An inversion in The Patriot (2000), where Benjamin Martin and his men dress up scarecrows as Redcoat officers and hold them at gunpoint within full view of General Cornwallis' camp, specifically to convince Cornwallis that they held a large number of English officers captive so they could exchange the "officers" for Colonial prisoners Cornwallis had. It works, much to Cornwallis' later consternation. | |
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Egil's Saga: When King Olaf of Scotland and his allies invade northern England with a large army, King Athelstan of England formally challenges him to battle at a place called Vinheiðr. However, Athelstan has few troops with him, and therefore only a small English contingent (including Thorolf and Egil) sets up camp at Vinheiðr while Athelstan is gathering troops for the battle in southern England. When the advance party makes camp at Vinheiðr, they leave every third tent empty, and put only a few men in the others; besides, they set up the camp on high ground so that the Scots cannot overlook the camp and realize how small it really is and how few people are really there. When King Olaf's messengers arrive to negotiate, all the English throng at the front of the camp (so that the messengers cannot see into the camp) and complain that there is not enough space for them in the camp. The Scots do not realize they have the advantage of numbers, and by simultaneously playing the Scots with peace talks that go nowhere, the English manage to delay the battle until Athelstan arrives with the main army. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, the Night's Watch do this by placing straw dummies on top of the Wall to attempt to convince Mance Rayder that the force defending Castle Black is larger than it actually is, but Mance is well aware that there's only a handful of people at best defending the castle. Still, the dummies make for great arrow-fodder, allowing them to stay stocked on ammo. | |
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Three Blind Mouseketeers: When Captain Katt manages to catch one of the Mousketeers in trap, the Mousketeer defiantly shouts ""All for one, and one for all!" His echoing voice, and the sight of the mouse's reflection in dozens of glass bottles, causes Katt to think he's surrounded and run away in a panic. | |
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Doctor Who. In "The Time Warrior", the Doctor and Sarah Jane set up dummies on the ramparts of Sir Edward's castle, though their attackers aren't fooled for long. | |
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Blake's 7. In "Powerplay", Vila realises he's Being Watched after crashlanding on a planet, so starts to order a non-existent squad of troops into position, commanding them to attack on the count of ten. When nothing happens, he starts his count again. | |
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In Starcraft 2 the same thing can be done by the Sentry unit, except the Sentry doesn't need to copy an existing unit. | |
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The main characters of Burn Notice sometimes employ this tactic, especially when they need to fool someone into thinking that Team Westen is actually a large and far-reaching secret agency. | |
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| The Patriot (2000) / int_bc9171ad | type |
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