Prisoners..Not a bad point that.. for MTW.
What do you guys think about having some routing troops "surrender" and stay put instead of routing off the field.
In Medieval times knights (the wealthy) in particular would often surrender as opposed to fighting to the death...eg. Agincourt.
So what about low to medium honour knights having a certain % (prob low) likelyhood of surrender and those "casualties" can be added as a ransom in diplomatic negotiations.
If you wanted to get real tricky, you could have higher prices for ransom of experienced troops, higher revolt chances in conquered territories (from the battle in question) and worsened Diplomatic relations if you kill prisoners. Maybe a possibility that if unguarded on the field of battle they may be able to rally and rejoin the battle..albeit in a weaken form.
Just some dream'in

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