You know the score...the battle is over, the enemy have fled from the field like the cowardly dogs they are and your light cavalry line up hundreds of captured soldiers for your perusal.
What do you do? Ransom them back? Butcher them all where they stand?
It's a problem I've been wrestling with for some time now and I haven't been able to come up with a definitive answer so I was wondering what you good people thought on the matter. Here are my thoughts so far...
Pro butchering:
1. Scant Mercy virtue (vice?) is worth getting if your general is a governor.
2. There have been times where I'm getting to know the enemy spearmen by name after ransoming them back for 5 seasons running and I'm just fed up with fighting every turn (with rapidly dwindling numbers of men) to hang on to some poxy province and a quick bloodletting eases the pressure a treat.
3. The noise that little red button makes as you butcher them is just so, well..you can practically hear the blade sliding across the breastbone, through the gristle... MUAHAHAHAA
Pro ransoming:
1. The ransom money often allows you to buy significantly more troops than you've ransomed back, especially if you captured any nobles. (well...duh )
2. No mercy vice takes a tiny bite out of morale which I've seen said on many occasions to be bad like Eddie Murphy movies (yes, that bad).
Any more thoughts/ideas? Do you think there is a definitive answer, yes or no? I'm quite stumped on this one so any ideas are welcome
P.S. 10 Bonus Points for anyone who can name the comedian I'm quoting in the topic title
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