Quote Originally Posted by Zorba
Actually, if the prisoners were nobles, taking them prisoner was infinitely preferable to killing them, because fortunes could be made via ransom.
I even think 'the code of chivalry' prohibited the killing of other knights in the highth of medieval times. So knights could only be killed by 'plebeian' soldiers, and would be 'lucky' when they met a rival knight in battle: they'd only be taken prisoner.

MTW2'd better have an in-depth simulation of the prisoner system...