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Quote[/b] (Cazbol @ Feb. 18 2003,08:35)]There was an interesting post by Husar today. He says that if you kill the prisoners before the battle ends, it will be interpreted as motivated by fear of losing. However, if you only kill them after the battle, i.e. once you get the screen with the victory conditions, you'll get "Scant mercy" and the like, which is a good thing.

His post is in the "Ransoming back corpses" thread.
I think it is the other way around. When you kill prisoners after the battle your men miss out on the ransom money and lose morale. Killing prisoners during battle gives your general dread but I have not seen any negative morale modifiers from this action therefore I usually try to kill prisoners mid battle.

Also, can anyone explain why armour upgrades cause your men to tire quicker. The way I see it the upgrades don't give your men more armour, just better quality - light infantry is still light infantry just with better made armour. The actual amount of armour should still roughly be the same. On the same note, how do you make a heavily armoured knight with even heavier armour - there is a point at which he or the horse could not move under the weight (let alone lift his sword).

I have not had too many fights with catholic factions in the desert but at least in Europe I have not really seen my upgraded troops tire quicker than unupgraded. Does anyone actually know the right answer