Castle/Town Prisoners

[CaseD]

What actually is there use? I can't really see any reason for collecting prisoners in your castles/towns....


Enlighten me please.

 

[Pode]

One of the quests you're given by lords or your king is to capture X number of enemy troop type Y so he cna do a hostage exchange.  Dungeons allow you to simply go and fetch them from storage when this happens.  The other reason is that if you camp in the field and then choose to take an action, you can offer prisoners their freedom if they join your party.  Dungeons allow you to store up enemies until they hit your prisoner limit, then offer freedom to them until thye eventually join up.  I use this to build an army of Nords and Vaegir Marksmen for taking castles regardless of what faction I choose to join.

 

[Badbru]

  I use this to build an army of Nords and Vaegir Marksmen for taking castles regardless of what faction I choose to join.

So, regardless of what faction you're playing you allways use the same troop types? Huh. Doesn't that just defeat the purpose of choosing a faction?
When I play Vaegirs, I use Vaegirs. When I play Nords I use Nords. I've even played Rhodoks and I even used Rhodoks when I did. I haven't been able to bring myself to play Swadians yet but if I ever do I won't be using Vaegir Marksmen and Nord Champions. It just doesn't feel right.

 

[LighthouseGuard]

Don't you know there's a secret pornographic scene which is revealed when you get 1337 Swadian Knights in your dungeon?

 

[Pode]

So, regardless of what faction you're playing you allways use the same troop types? Huh. Doesn't that just defeat the purpose of choosing a faction?

I fight other battles besides just seiges.

 

[Mortus]

Prisons in castles needed to stack somewhere your prisoners which you'll never sell to slavetrader. Prisoners is money (doesn't matter that you have LOT of money and it will ever last) and you can't leave prisoners on a battleground because you are too greedy! At least that's exactly why I need prisons.

 

[Strok]

I was thinking about this the other day when I went into a prison on a whim.

Those things are damn small. I've loaded up places with prisoners before, sometimes in the many tens and the mental image of loading a small brick room full of Swadians is hilarious!

 

[mrcrotch]

I bribed the guard but he just stole my money, the ****.

 

[bythorsbeard]

Don't you know there's a secret pornographic scene which is revealed when you get 1337 Swadian Knights in your dungeon?

DAMN!!! Somebody told me that it was 1337 Khergits!
Now I've gotta start all over again!

 

[macethump]

In some .808 mods you used to be able to recruit all your prisoners (one at a time) whenever you wanted.  Not terribly realistic, but real handy.  In .903 mods like BOWX you can eventually have a whole army of bad-arsed troops like Dragon Guards and then need fear nothing.  Great for the ego, maybe not so much for gameplay.  Still a good way to get top-level enemy troops a few at a time, though you may pay the price in morale.

 

[bythorsbeard]

If I want enemy type troops, I just buddy up with a couple of their towns. It comes in handy if you get into a lot of fights in their territory.

 

[Malagant]

Don't you know there's a secret pornographic scene which is revealed when you get 1337 Swadian Knights in your dungeon?

Oh man thats classic

 

[koolie10]

I find that the guys I convert just leave in the night. so i just aviod the hole mess