Best way to deal with captured Lords

[Cornholio]

So i've been thinking of the best thing to do with lords to take them out of the war for as long as possible.

1. Execution
was my first thought but i read that they just get replaced by new lords eventually. Makes sense so you cant just exterminate till you are the only army leader. Anybody knows how fast they get replaced?

2. keep them prisoner for as along as you can
i have been donating them to allied dungeons, havent tried to keep track of how long they stay prisoned. But nice to get some extra influence. I assume they can randomly escape if you just keep them prisoner with your party just like the player can. which would mean you lose out on the influence or ransom.

3. release them in "danger zones"
this is what im gonna try next chance i get, let them go in bandit infested areas or inbetween ally lords. tho i dont know how long looters or allies hold them, if they get ransomed a day or 2 later i may aswell have just taken to ransom gold myself. the hope would be they are fast enough to evade getting captured for a while or have to take a longer route home.

whats you guys experience?

[Tactical Drongo]

Ransom

they pop up either way, so you can get at least a few thousand denar out of it

or let them straighup go and don't capture them to increase your charm skill

[Fryskar]

So far i understood only a completely depopulated clan gets replaced. If you keep them at 1 lord they should stay.

[travisdukeengineering]

They really need to Fing fix the late game!!!! all you end up doing is micro managing a lot of bs instead of plying the game... the lords exscape in a day or less and come back right away with a free army when it takes us weeks to build up an army so wtf guys???? anyone have a fix for this or know when its going to be fixed?

[Lion Bird Plate Plate Feather Fe]

Execution is a fast way to get a whole faction and all its clans to hate you. I executed Empress Rhagaea to make a point and my relations with the Southern Empire dropped to -100. Its great at getting rid of problematic lords that keep harassing your settlements. Executing faction leaders are also great at declaring world wars. :P Just don't do it too often cause it will lead to long term complications. Its hard to get relations back on the green once it dips down to enemy level. Wars are temporary. In comparison, loyalties are not.

Keeping lords prisoner is a good way to keep them out of the fight during a war. Less lords means less manpower on the field. The rate of which they escape is somewhere between 1 to 10 days as far as I can tell. I had 11 lords stuffed into my dungeons at one point and they escaped in ones or twos over a 10 day period.

I don't think releasing them out in the wild would do much because I think they just respawn at their closest allied settlement or in one of their owned settlements, regardless if they are released or ransomed. That is whats been happening in my game at least.

[vidgin]

how many influence you'll get for donating them into ally prisons?

[harry]

i personally do a mixture depending on the situation, if its at the start of the war and warbands are running everywhere i try and keep them locked up for as long as possible in my castle to stop them from running home and forming a new army to fight me with. if i had a clan with a lot of members i liked the look of id constantly let them go and only them so i can convince them to change sides to my kingdom later on and get all their castles and towns in the process. if im short of gold i ransom them straight off but i always keep the situation in mind. i dont execute ever because that will make half of their nation hate me and it will make conquring them harder later when i wanna turn some clans so they arnt a mosh pit in a single castle at the end. id suggest to find ur own style in this but i find locking them up in a castle keeps them out of trouble for the longest without killing them.