Kill or Capture?

[bamff]

Possibly the answer to this one is that it is "just pure coincidence", but I thought I would put the question out there just for my own curiousity....

I have noted now in a succession of battles that a small number of royal knight units invariably finish the battle with vey small tallies of adversaries killed, but huge numbers of prisoners taken....are certain commanders pre-disposed to capturing rather than killing? Is is that certain unit types will capture rather than kill other specific unit types (and in the case of my guys they coincidentally came up against the same type of opponent each time)?

Has anyone else noticed this when reviewing battle stats after the field clears?

[naut]

Soldiers are only captured when their status turns to "Running Away".

[caravel]

Until a unit routs it will fight to the death. Even withdrawing units will fight their way out. As soon is it routs it is no longer fighting and is vulnerable to capture. Your RKs being cavalry and thus faster moving than infantry, are likely charging and breaking the enemy and then mopping up the routers as they flee.

[macsen rufus]

I believe that only routers are captured, but I also have a feeling I've had somewhere the message that "Your soldiers have captured the enemy general" before his unit broke and ran. I've also had the impression in the past that mercenaries are more likely to take prisoners (assuming they're more interested in ransom than killing )

[caravel]

I believe that only routers are captured, but I also have a feeling I've had somewhere the message that "Your soldiers have captured the enemy general" before his unit broke and ran. I've also had the impression in the past that mercenaries are more likely to take prisoners (assuming they're more interested in ransom than killing )

The general will often continue fighting in the midst of a melee, he will then rout and a split second later be captured. The game doesn't get the time to inform you that the general routed in that small space of time.

[macsen rufus]

Yes, Caravel (welcome back, btw, what happened to Manco? ) I do see some lags in the messages. I often don't get the message about the enemy general captured for 10-20 seconds after his flag has gone down, so I think it might just be related to the messages getting stacked up...