What's the point of prisoners in towns?

[Miggy]

So what do you do with the prisoners in your towns or castles? Cause in my game they are just sitting there doing nothing but just accumulating.

[Gozer]

You don't have nobles escaping?

Normally prisoners donated to any faction dungeon gives you influence, perhaps you may want to stockpile prisoners for recruitment later.

[Technech]

And its a great way to give your enemy fresh troops when they capture your city!

[Edmund Greyfox]

Ransom them, or move them to be party prisoners and slowly recruit them to help offset your troops losses. Top tier troops usually take too long to convert, but tier 2-4 prisoners are a viable source of portable reinforcements. It requires some patience, but in my current game I've built a force of just over 100 vlandian cavalry by holding onto all the gallants, knights and light cavalry i captured and carrying them along until i could convert them. I do the same thing with infantry prisoners, but they stay locked up in my castles most of the time and only get carried along when i pull my infantry army out of garrison to go do a siege.

[Miggy]

So I'm just stockpiling my prisoners in my town? They're not going to be auto converted?

[[UA] mimic_house]

they will not and it is strange

[✪︎DΞ︎AD_iwnw]

The reason prisoners are in your town is because nobles put them in your dungeons to gain influence, it's like a gift. Just sell or convert them. For nobles, putting them in a dungeon reduces their chance of escaping.

[Miggy]

Thanks y'all. I'll just start selling the ones I won't be converting then :D