Occupy, enslave or exterminate?

[Craterus]

Enslave or exterminate.. I rarely occupy..Don't exterminate if you will be building troops from there in the future because you won't have the the population to do so.

[Brutus]

I usually occupy when the culture is similar and the number of inhabitants already pityfull (so, in effect, I always occupy when playing as Barbarians and taking an other barbarian town). Otherwise, it depends. Especially when you play barbarians exterminating can be a good idea when you encounter a minor city or even bigger. Since you cannot enlarge the town, get rid of those nasty cultured types! When playing as Romans or another civiliced faction, I usually enslave to boost my home cities as well a keeping the recently conquered town a little bit quiter. However, depending on the size of the place, I still may just occupy (when it's really small), or exterminate (when it's very large and you know it's going to riot). There was a thread about a week ago in which 'unrest' was explored. It should give you a idea of which cities in particular you'd want to exterminate.

By the way, don't exterminate too much with the same general. Once can actually give him a good trait, but doing it too much will give him traits like sanguinary which makes his influence and command plummet...