Keep em' or kill em...

[Ciaran]

As for execute/ransom. I very rarely executed prisoners, except where there was a good role-playing reason to do so. Doing it for the cash just isn't my style.

Huh, if you execute your prisoners you don´t get cash - that´s the whole point: Either you execute them and are rid of them for good or you let them be ransomed back to fight them the next time around.

And to answer the question of the topic in the first place, I sincerely hope that taking prisoners and the option to kill them is back in MTW2.
However, I would also like the option to choose whether to ransome them back or not after a battle, and not have to kill them on the battlemap. Maybe to raise the ransom, there are precedents, after all.

[Mount Suribachi]

Huh, if you execute your prisoners you don´t get cash - that´s the whole point: Either you execute them and are rid of them for good or you let them be ransomed back to fight them the next time around.

Uh, yeah, I knew that

*highly embaressed*

[Andejar]

I always kill my prisoners because of the cool background noise. (Isn't killing the prisoners similar to exterminating the populace in BI)

Another thing this game should have are the assassination movies like there was in shogun total those were the whole reason i played that game because I was like 10 when it came out.

[Martok]

Another thing this game should have are the assassination movies like there was in shogun total those were the whole reason i played that game because I was like 10 when it came out.

I agree. I'm just glad that the assassination movies are making a return in Medieval 2.