Has telling a lord "Actually, I think you're the one ought to surrender" ever worked?

[daxiapi777]

Maybe it's just a flavor text, which is totally fine by me. Remember that comet event in EU4?

 

[Cossack8559]

I've had a lord with 43 units refuse against me leading an army of 900. I never seen it work. I do rarely see some looters surrender but most of the time they choose death.

 

[Pensaci]

That's one of my main issues with the game and to a degree, with Warband. The NPC don't follow the rules as the player do; Ghost armies out of nowhere, unlimited money, no attrition in sieges, no surrender, etc.

About this topic tho, I think "the Recruits Army" in recent patch is a good start. I tried to observe a party of mine, the issue is it's just they hold too many upgrades. Once I have to manually took 50 recruits back upgraded 30+ of them.

 

[Rolf Lutz]

They even ask you to surrender when they will undoubtedly lose.

By the way, in this encounter he was the one that engaged to attack my party.

 

[Orbit-]

They should be the ones to offer negoiating tbh. They should offer money, horses etc if they want to get away and maybe even consider surrendering/changing sides.