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[Braden]

People didn't want it in RTW because in MTW it seemed unrealistic.............I believe it was a good feature and that some abstraction is always required.

Absolutely a good feature, its still a game and no matter how sophisticated it is it certainly wouldn't be much fun to keep pulling units off the battlefield just to take their captives away.

I guess by "people" you mean Publishing exec's and other money orientated people?

it is far more realistic in any of the Total War games to have captives rather than just corpses.....equals more money for the victors!

(though I have to say that in some of the larger Rome battles its IS satisfying to scroll over the battlefield and see simply 1,000's of bodies)

Enslavement is valid for muslim factions as historically muslims did take slaves and the slave trade was a massive business. Culturally accurate in that respect. It would have been better in MTW if slaves had been converted into a "slave resource" (as in RTW) tradable with other muslim factions and locally for a period.

Ok, stand corrected.

The other more abstract reason for the idea I've put forward above is that I just didn't like HAVING to kill several thousand virtual soldiers......1) It seemed such a waste, 2) I didn't feel "good" about it and 3) I didnt like being "forced" into anything in an open game like a Total War one.