Will the Ai ever pay a King's ransom ?
Lastly, having established a Hungarian Promised Land Kingdom (owing Adana, Antioch, Acre, Damascus), I took Gaza on a crusade and decided to wait for a new crusade to take Jerusalem...
In the meantime, I use the garrison (consisting of my heir and various crusading units) to police the desert around Gaza...
As it happens, i suddenly see the Egyptian Heir and Faction Leader each try to cross to Jerusalem on their own with only their bodyguards...
So I immediately send my heir and two HA to intercept...The Egyptian Heir died running (coward....) and my own heir went hunting the Egyptian King further away and captured him and some of his BG...
The ransom was of 12000 fl approx. and my treasury needed it badly at he time (several cities growing at the same time can sure put your treasury under pressure...)
But the ransom was rejected... It's not the first time it happens in one of my campaigns...
So what should I do ?
1/ Execute him ? And get dread for my high chiv general ?
2/ Use the add_money cheat before the battle to give money to the Egyptian so that I can be paid ?
3/ Use the add_money cheat and give myself the money ?
4/ Any idea ?
The ransom seems to be a bit bugged also as I've noticed several times that an arm that could'nt retreat or withdraw (with the skull icon on the pre-battle screen) could still be ransomed but would die to the last man nonetheless...
Finally, to this long post, do any faction in your campaign (yours or AI) get an economy going ? When I look at the Financial Overview (1.1-patched) not one faction has gone over 20000 fl at the end one single turn (at turn 75) ?
I understand that might be one of the reason the ransoms aren't paid but how do you and the AI get full coffers ?
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