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So попадать is always intransitive; I was starting to think that was maybe the key to it.
Thanks maxmixiv

I was using Abbyy dictionary; in that, 'манипул' is genitive, 'манипула' is nominative.
I didn't take the sack idea literally, I just thought the visual explanation of it was helpful.
I had...

Thanks both. It's an odd phrase, to me.

'Пехотный манипул попал в мешок'... I had thought it meant that they put Ratslayer into a sack after they had caught him. Is there something about this...

Dropped into a bag? Surely not.

'Пехотный манипул попал в мешок, и если бы не врубилась с фланга кавалерийская турма, а командовал ею я, – тебе, философ, не пришлось бы разговаривать с Крысобоем.'...