Gekokujo, I have captured Great lord hojo and need help

[Loathsome Greg]

I was able to capture him in battle, and his clan offers me 13800 mon to release him. my problem is if I keep him will he eventually escape? I kind of like crippling all of there generals so I can slowly take provinces, if not I will sell him

[ForevaNoob Wonemorturn]

Well, I won't tell you what to do with your prisoners...

[Loathsome Greg]

Originally posted by jml:

Well, I won't tell you what to do with your prisoners...

Does he escape over time like the player can or do I permanently keep him until I sell him. that is the question

[Sir Roger Redstealer]

There is a random chance any lord can escape. Atleast there is in vanilla. That chance is lowered if you have a prison tower in your city.

[Reno Story]

Oh, he'll escape sooner or later.

All AI commanders do, sooner or later. Depends on how strong the guard is. If you have a castle or town, an upgrade can help reduce the chance of them escaping, but it only reduces it, not prevents.

In my opinion, it would be best to hold onto him as long as you can, unless you are desperate for money. Keeping the strongest member of the army out of action is a great way to cripple their defence, making seiges much easier without their 300+ unit party on patrol to catch you by surprise.

[Loathsome Greg]

Originally posted by Renomaki:

Oh, he'll escape sooner or later.

All AI commanders do, sooner or later. Depends on how strong the guard is. If you have a castle or town, an upgrade can help reduce the chance of them escaping, but it only reduces it, not prevents.

In my opinion, it would be best to hold onto him as long as you can, unless you are desperate for money. Keeping the strongest member of the army out of action is a great way to cripple their defence, making seiges much easier without their 300+ unit party on patrol to catch you by surprise.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=344546106 It's not like I try to capture them every battle. Time to lock this man up for good

[King Chubbles]

If you kill him he wont escape

[Loathsome Greg]

Another retarded question. I have 13 Strength 10 agility 16 intellect and 12 charisma. My leadership is only 4, Do I need to keep leveling up charisma? I can't seem to level leadership at all anymore

[Reno Story]

Originally posted by Kariya:

Another retarded question. I have 13 Strength 10 agility 16 intellect and 12 charisma. My leadership is only 4, Do I need to keep leveling up charisma? I can't seem to level leadership at all anymore

Leadership requires quite a bit of charisma to level it up. Keep working at it, and you'll qualify for another skill boost soon enough.

It is worth in in the late game, where having a large army is important.

[ForevaNoob Wonemorturn]

Originally posted by Rozzok:

13 Strength 10 agility 16 intellect and 12 charisma...

That's... a lot... ;-)

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So I read this on some wiki, and I think it applies here. Out in the field, the generals have a high chance of escaping every day (something like 50%). In a town it's something like 30%. In a town with a prison, it's 5%. So you can assume they would escape within a month at a prison.

Oh and one other thing. I'm pretty positive I read that refusing a ransom drops your Honour by 1.

Your Leadership maximum is your Charisma divided by 3. So you'd need 15 Charisma to have up to 5 points in Leadership. It works like that for every skill and the related attribute.