A bit worried about PoW.

**Doug-Thompson** · 01-25-2006, 21:42

I play Muslims. Forget the dungeon. Let's have a harem.

**King Henry V** · 01-25-2006, 22:03

You must have had many "Perveted" kings, Doug...

Maybe after a paticularly long spell in prison the enemy king could come round to your way of thinking, à la King David II of Scots?

**The_Doctor** · 01-25-2006, 22:26

I hope they add dungeons so you can hold prisoners for longer and torture them

I wonder if you can build one in Cuba.

**King Henry V** · 01-25-2006, 22:29

Treat your enemy King to a lovely holiday in the sun, by the sea...behind 20 foot walls and packs of hungry dogs...ah, luxury.

**boastj** · 01-25-2006, 22:52

What’s a harem is it more evil than a dungeon torture chamber

**Doug-Thompson** · 01-25-2006, 23:57

Originally Posted by boastj

What’s a harem is it more evil than a dungeon torture chamber

A harem is a women's "dormatory" where the Sultan can go and make love with any, or as many, of the women he has kept there. It's a very practical way of improving the odds that the Sultan can produce a male heir.

No other men are allowed — not even enemy kings — unless they're eunuchs. This is to ensure that any children produced are the Sultan's.

And no, I did not intend to take prisoner kings there, but that should be allowed as a game option for players who are so inclined.

I suppose a torture chamber could render the enemy kings into eunuchs. They you could see them in the harem.

Anyway, if the harem option is provided, MTW 2 will become the first in the series with an AO rating.

**Zatoichi** · 01-26-2006, 08:59

Originally Posted by Doug-Thompson

I suppose a torture chamber could render the enemy kings into eunuchs. They you could see them in the harem.

Now that's what I call torture!

Ahem.

Anyway, I think that an added layer of complexity to the MTW model wouldn't be such a bad thing. Slavery and prisoner exchanges spring to mind.

Also, I'd like to see a return to the way that routing troops behave in MTW - they could still fight back, and you could lose troops to them unlike in RTW where their self-preservation instincts were reduced somewhat. This makes taking prisoners a slightly more expensive affair if you factor in troop retraining.