Quote Originally Posted by Fisherking
Sure, Never Say Never!

What I should have said was Trade Centers…like Burges and so on. They were much too valuable to the Lords and Princes to do much more than threaten them…which I am sure they routinely did. An enemies city that was unimportant to you was fair game if you could get it and were not sure that you were going to retain it. But over all cities were just too important to the economy to go plundering them wholesale.

Burning those places was like burning your own money.
true... but sacking cities did happen, ofcourse they were never burned down to the ground like the mongols did sometimes...