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Florestan Since: May, 2015
2025-03-04 14:09:02

There's Oddly Small Organization, and take a look at some of the more specific subtropes listed there (e.g. Critical Staffing Shortage or Suspiciously Small Army...)

KD Since: May, 2009
2025-03-04 14:41:21

With This Herring comes to mind in some situations. "You are our only hope to defeat the enemy fleet. Here's an old gunboat we kind of refurbished."

Being "set up to fail" also has shades of Uriah Gambit, if someone is deliberately underequipped for the job in the hopes they'll be killed by enemy firepower.

Edited by KD
Scorpion451 (Edited uphill both ways)
2025-03-05 08:40:08

Reassigned to Antarctica when someone is given a new position like this to punish them or get them out of the way- say, Alice makes her senior officer Bob look bad in front of the general, so Bob is quick to recommend her when asked for candidates to head the understaffed fort in the middle of nowhere.

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