text: . I might have the title wrong. Anyway in the book the protagonist Will is in a forest surrounding a fortress. He is with a friend of his, Malacose. The name might be wrong as well. One of his other friends has been captured and been taken to the fortress. So then Will and Malacose worked together to come up with a way to save his friend. Will came up with the a plan to take the fortress. He used Malacose's idea to use small explosions and other nonlethal props and sound devices to distract the enemy so Will and another of his friends Horace could slip into the castle mostly unnoticed. Then once they had secured a foothold. Then they unleashed more of Will's friends, Skandians to help them take the fortress.. Another example is from the book Ranger's Apprentice Battle for Skandia. In this book the Skandians are being invaded by an army that has never lost a battle. So the Skandians go to Halt and Will for help. Actually it was Halt and Will who told them that the Temuji were coming. Anyway Halt had experience with the Temuji so he came up with a plan that was very unskandian like. But the Skandians agreed to it because it was their only hope. The Temuji were horse people so their ideal battlefield was on an open plain. Also one of their favorite tactics was to fake a retreat to draw out the enemy but then to cut them down with a ambush. That then would draw out more of whoever they were facing and repeat the process. So Halt used that agent them and staged a ambush for their ambush. Short version the Skandians used Halt's ideas even though it was not something they would normally do and came out victories.