If I capture many prisoners of a faction I intend to ahnilate completely, I often do so. But you have to be cautious: If it's with a general that's valubale to you, only do it once; he'll get a +1 dread bonus. But if you keep on slaughtering prisoners with the same general it will make th emorale of his troops go down. This is often annoying in the situation I mentioned earlier, because I want to take out the prisoners, but I'm using one of my best generals, so I'm forced to either give them their men back to use against me again or take the hit on the morale.

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I almost always execute rebels if the loyalty is low, it will raise a little if you execute the prisoners, but you can also get some nasty vices.

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