Will there be a ransom option?

[LAST.MAN.STANDING]

Never heard of it, but if they included the above suggestions, bravo to them....but...it's not EB. I want all the bells n' whistles EB puts in PLUS the ability to claim the spoils of the field. What good is cake if you can't eat it too, right?

But seriously....someone from the EB team should look into the idea, and not just 'cause it's my pet concept, but because it truly would add an excellent level of realism to the game. I'm no modder by any means, but it seems to me that changing the ransom option to selling slaves would be relatively easy. The influx of cash from stripping the dead/looting baggage train might be another story...but then again, events like grants of cash from councils in M2TW must be triggered by something, right? Why not have those events triggered by victories and simply rewrite the text to state "spoils of victory, 2000 mnai, [etc etc]" or some such thing?

[A Very Super Market]

It's an add-on mod to EB (Maybe Vanilla, I'm not sure)

I get your point, but you can play EB and have what you're describing with it. It's in the EB mod modding forum.

[LAST.MAN.STANDING]

It's an add-on mod to EB (Maybe Vanilla, I'm not sure)

I get your point, but you can play EB and have what you're describing with it. It's in the EB mod modding forum.

Thanks...I'll look it up as a possible sub-mod for my gameplay until EBII debuts. I was mainly focusing on suggestions for EBII.

[MerlinusCDXX]

I have an idea on how some of this may be implemented.
1, Make the options texts read (Release prisoners-no change necessary, Ransom-sell prisoners to the slave trader, Execute-take prisoners as state slaves or send them to the mines)
2, Have the "refused ransom" text read "the slave trader did not accept this lot of prisoners, so they have been sent to the mines".

I know this is not perfect, but it would provide a more realistic (according to the time period) way of presenting the hardcoded options that we are dealing with.

[Alsatia]

So in effect, the owner of the defeated units is the slave trader?????

[MerlinusCDXX]

It is just something i thought of to get rid of the silly medieval ransoming thing. In effect, you are selling captives to the slavers that followed ancient armies around. When it is your troops being "ransomed", you are basically buying them back from the slavers that bought them from the victor, or consigning them to slavery. In fact, maybe the text on the loser's screen could be "buy your men back from the slave trader" or "allow them to be enslaved for their failure".

So in effect, the owner of the defeated units is the slave trader????? -Alsatia

Yeah. Slave traders did follow armies around for the easy pickings and insane profits, though I think that this was much more common during the Imperial Roman period than the EB time frame. I'm just presenting this as an option, that's all. I'm sure that if there is a better work-around the dev team will find it.