Trading just isn't for me and I've not yet built up the reputation, gold or training ability to beat down the tougher armies. Whenever I've been lucky enough to get into a large battle with a lot of prisoners however, I notice it's a pure gold mine.
So what tactics do you guys like to use to farm prisoners? Someone mentioned giving yourself and your companions blunt weapons, while this would certainly help aren't there any reasonably tough units in the game already equipped with good blunt weapons?
Are there any very clever methods I'm missing for prisoner farming? I've got most of my companion combo sorted and I've got trainer 5 and surgery 5 in my group atm, so it's looking up but money is still tight at times, I get by (I'm a mercenary, just won the sarleon tournament so I'm hardly dead broke) but scraping by isn't going to net me a kingdom or an elite army anytime soon.
Given the limitations on merchant funds and how ransom agents have unlimited cash (not to mention how valuable some prisoners are in this game) what are the best tactics for prisoner farming you guys use? And what might be some good army setups to farm them.
So what tactics do you guys like to use to farm prisoners? Someone mentioned giving yourself and your companions blunt weapons, while this would certainly help aren't there any reasonably tough units in the game already equipped with good blunt weapons?
Are there any very clever methods I'm missing for prisoner farming? I've got most of my companion combo sorted and I've got trainer 5 and surgery 5 in my group atm, so it's looking up but money is still tight at times, I get by (I'm a mercenary, just won the sarleon tournament so I'm hardly dead broke) but scraping by isn't going to net me a kingdom or an elite army anytime soon.
Given the limitations on merchant funds and how ransom agents have unlimited cash (not to mention how valuable some prisoners are in this game) what are the best tactics for prisoner farming you guys use? And what might be some good army setups to farm them.