Executing Lords - What happens?

[WingT74]

Hey All,

Really enjoying the game...and yeah realizing the only way I can truly crush my enemies is by executing their lords when I capture them.

I had like 6 as prisoners, and saved.....and then went ahead a chopped off all their heads. My relationship with countless lords/ladies declined....to the point where I just stopped the game from giving me the alerts and loaded the old save.

My character is married with 3 kids....so yeah, what is long term impact on my character and my family for executing lords?

Thanks in advance

[Ruffio]

Long term? Well I suppose you don't want to have a kingdom and plan recruit any clans to it.

Once you execute someone, you get a penality of -1000 points on your honor stats. (per exectured lord)

Do it enough times and the chance of your character or leaders of your other clan parties being executed if captured increase too.

[Clovis Sangrail]

Originally posted by Reften:

Executing Lords - What happens?

You found out what happens -- They die, and and no matter how big of an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ the person in whose honor the entertainment was given was, everyone hates you for it.

Long term, you might be able to recover from a little head chopping, but it's a pretty big relationship hit with the whole world.

It's a good thing you had a save.

Keep calm and reload on.

[Ruffio]

Originally posted by Clovis Sangrail:

Originally posted by Reften:

Executing Lords - What happens?

You found out what happens -- They die, and and no matter how big of an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ the person in whose honor the entertainment was given was, everyone hates you for it.

Long term, you might be able to recover from a little head chopping, but it's a pretty big relationship hit with the whole world.

It's a good thing you had a save.

Keep calm and reload on.

You get 50 honor for each completed quest. So to compensate for kill one lord, would be to complete 20 quests... if you want to put it simple -)

[kristianjakob]

Killing lords is mostly an all or nothing strategy.

You either go full med-evil hunger games and kill everyone, and win as the last man standing, or you refrain from doing it at all.

[Vanilla Gorilla]

I'm pretty sure the game automatically replenishes clans under the kingdom in question. I don't think the kingdom will drop below 6 clans no matter how many you execute. I could be wrong but I am pretty sure that's how it functions.

[Seggellion]

Originally posted by Vanilla Gorilla:

I'm pretty sure the game automatically replenishes clans under the kingdom in question. I don't think the kingdom will drop below 6 clans no matter how many you execute. I could be wrong but I am pretty sure that's how it functions.

In my games, I have been able to eliminate entire factions by execution. This usually occurs when I get tired of Vlandians. I have also recovered from it by releasing other nobles in other factions rather than taking them prisoner. So I am still able to recruit other clans. In my last game, I even recruited the last Vlandian clan notwithstanding the head chopping. Therefore, you can chop heads but you need to balance it out with equal and opposite actions if that is important to your gameplay. I also noticed, that once your reputation falls too low, no one will hire you as a merc either. Once that happens, it can become difficult to recover from that.

If you really need to eliminate one or more nobles, it is better to use a failed prison break than execution.

[WingT74]

Originally posted by kristianjakob:

Killing lords is mostly an all or nothing strategy.

You either go full med-evil hunger games and kill everyone, and win as the last man standing, or you refrain from doing it at all.

Thanks, appreciate it. Just feels like there are way too many lords in the game.

[JokeryEU]

its interesting how some nobody noble can affect you so much when they kill 10k+ soldiers when they want to and no penalty for it.

[WingT74]

Originally posted by JokeryEU:

its interesting how some nobody noble can affect you so much when they kill 10k+ soldiers when they want to and no penalty for it.

YES! Exactly, those with 2 or 3 red traits....executing them should lead to an improvement in relations with some lords.

[Action Man]

I see it as all these nobles see war as a game, and the soldiers are just pawns. Each faction all agree to the same rules of war (whether their culture would seem to match it or not). Some will even mention they expect to be treated as us 'customary' or some such.

Executing nobles is this world's version of showing up and flipping the table. They don't like you ruining their war games. The only times I've seen NPC lords drop the axe on other NPCs is when they're removing a Rebel Faction, and that's if they don't survive to become recognized as a clan.

From a mechanics standpoint, it's discouraged because the game devs always want constant combat. There's no real winning unless you execute everyone else.

[ShadowFox]

Originally posted by JokeryEU:

its interesting how some nobody noble can affect you so much when they kill 10k+ soldiers when they want to and no penalty for it.

Soldiers, knights, peasants they don't matter in "the game" think about right now with the war in ukraine we send thousands of people to die for no real reason but if one of our current nobility (celebrities/politicians/billionaires) died everyone would freak out

[R3sistance]

Long Term, it is almost always better to convert vassals and take their lords with them, it's going to be significantly harder to do if you chop heads and any vassals you have may also get relationship nuked. So it's definitely an all in thing if you go that route and you're going to be relying on having very few lords under you.

[kristianjakob]

Originally posted by R3sistance:

Long Term, it is almost always better to convert vassals and take their lords with them, it's going to be significantly harder to do if you chop heads and any vassals you have may also get relationship nuked. So it's definitely an all in thing if you go that route and you're going to be relying on having very few lords under you.

Nahh, you cannot quite say that.

Despite never personally having killed a single lord, I have done enough dedicated lord farming to be able to see that a "kill all" strategy would be hard (impossible) to compete with.

But again, most people probably do not want to play Bannerlord 2: The Hunger Games, so it doesnt really matter that much.

[R3sistance]

Originally posted by kristianjakob:

Originally posted by R3sistance:

Long Term, it is almost always better to convert vassals and take their lords with them, it's going to be significantly harder to do if you chop heads and any vassals you have may also get relationship nuked. So it's definitely an all in thing if you go that route and you're going to be relying on having very few lords under you.

Nahh, you cannot quite say that.

Despite never personally having killed a single lord, I have done enough dedicated lord farming to be able to see that a "kill all" strategy would be hard (impossible) to compete with.

But again, most people probably do not want to play Bannerlord 2: The Hunger Games, so it doesnt really matter that much.

If you've never executed a lord, then how can you know it? It's actually not that hard to nuke out relations with most of your lords if you're not careful.

[kristianjakob]

Originally posted by R3sistance:

Originally posted by kristianjakob:

Nahh, you cannot quite say that.

Despite never personally having killed a single lord, I have done enough dedicated lord farming to be able to see that a "kill all" strategy would be hard (impossible) to compete with.

But again, most people probably do not want to play Bannerlord 2: The Hunger Games, so it doesnt really matter that much.

If you've never executed a lord, then how can you know it? It's actually not that hard to nuke out relations with most of your lords if you're not careful.

Because that would be completely irrelevant (the grievances of dead men matter not).