Thats 20,000 florins for me....

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Originally Posted by Loucipher

Really? I've seen the contrary. As mentioned in some other thread, I managed to end the dynasty of England in one swift move, killing one of the heirs and capturing the King and a second heir, then having the ransom refused for them. To make things clear, the English had no less than three provinces of the British Isles in their possession then - Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria (probably also Wales, but I coudn't check that one). Still, ransom refusal meant that they went rebel, which allowed me to paint the Isles blue over the next 20 years or so... ~:)

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I've come to suspect that the AI sometimes deliberately kills off their own faction, in the knowledge that you wont be able to secure all their old lands, and that theyll be able to reemerge just as powerful as before in a few years

Stood it behind the gate. The AI sends in a unit at a time and they get picked off on the long march to the gate. Most of the rest get killed breaking through and as soon as they do - whammo - they get the organ gun. Subsequent units get sent, losing forces from the castle walls until they get the the gate and get the same treatment. Losses are so high the unit routs immediately, sometimes to recover and come back for a second helping. You have to watch it carefully as the gunners eventually ran around their gun and engaged a unit of MHC hand to hand. Not terribly clever.

Anyway, it was just an amusement - I had two units of Italian infantry mercenaries waiting to fill the gate and they really made mincemeat of the Horde. Should definately have taken the time limit off the game.

I don't know so much about getting ransom because I always panic about losing the battle and have all my prisoners get killed, but I once spent 750,000 Florins to ransom my King from the Excommunicated Spanish who rulled most of the Map, surrounded France, you see I sent my King and his army to invade Navarre, however that very turn Aquataine was invaded and so I could not retreat him back to France and had to pay Ransom.