Possible Clues:

• Strategic placing of some loyal people in small section
• End Ptolemy’s shifting movement of eg troops
• Duke given job scrapping men’s initial distribution
• Typo led men astray in preparation for battle
• Introduction of desk job saving first male from military action
• Stratagem needed by this person sunk in depression in military manoeuvre
• Distribution of resources
• Military action sees five hundred given work but with a thousand laid off
• Extensive use of troops?
• Disposition of the lower classes - trick people with time