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    Ming the Merciless is my idol Senior Member Watchman's Avatar
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    Default Re: Females & captured warriors

    Not terribly, AFAIK. Selling the POWs to slavery was probably much more readily profitable, as most of them cannot have had the kinds of connections and background needed to scrape together a decent ransom payment (or were an important enough resource to their masters to be worth ransoming with their money).
    OTOH, didn't at least Hannibal end up with quite a bit of ex-Roman infantry ?
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    Default Re: Females & captured warriors

    Quote Originally Posted by ziegenpete View Post
    But was ransom that common in the antiquity?
    Quote Originally Posted by Watchman View Post
    Not terribly, AFAIK. Selling the POWs to slavery was probably much more readily profitable...
    This is purely wishful thinking, but it would be nice to have an Enslave Prisoners option after battles either in place of, or in addition to, Ransom Prisoners. Perhaps ransoming would only be an option for generals & family members. I'm sure that it's impossible to mod the game in this way, however.

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