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Quote[/b] (Red Harvest @ Feb. 17 2003,13:45)]9. Kill your prisoners unless you need the money. No sense giving them back their troops in a battle of attrition.
Bad idea after you have done it one time, after that you will begin to lose Morale, and then the troops might not want to fight long enough for you (if you take my meaning).
Also, another point, you should especially ransom back prisoners in the first battles, because if you kill them, chances are the AI faction (being in the southeast and very rich) will build newer and better units than it had as part of its standing army. So by all means sell them back the peasants and general light stuff, that will handcuff him some more. Once you gained a relatively secure foothold in that area, you can start executing the prisoners if you feel like you will get overwhelmed otherwise (eg. when you have trouble reinforcing your own army down there...)