Prisoners: take warrior, ransom or execute?

[chianh1305]

These 3 options will appear when I defeat an enemy army. While I get what take warriors and ransom do, what is the point of execute? The tooltip says it doesnt give any benefit but only lower diplomacy with that faction. In M2 it makes sense to execute because it increase dread, but in this game, executing offer nothing but negative.

[RobG4]

I've never used Execute except for RP purposes. I always execute rebels =)

As Sea Kings, I usually Ransom for the Tribute, especially early in the game.

[Zsrai]

Well executing does make the enemy of your enemy like you more, so there's that. I still find it useless the majority of the time (except when RPing basically).

I usually absorb the warriors if I have a few units that are hurting, or if the gold is pitiful (even 1% replenishment is solid enough, especially compared to like 23g on a later turn). Early on the gold tends to be more useful in general though.

[Mile pro Libertate]

Originally posted by chianh1305:

These 3 options will appear when I defeat an enemy army. While I get what take warriors and ransom do, what is the point of execute? The tooltip says it doesnt give any benefit but only lower diplomacy with that faction. In M2 it makes sense to execute because it increase dread, but in this game, executing offer nothing but negative.

While there is no Dread rating per se, you can still farm traits for a character who executes multiple times. Some of these traits are very useful, like debuffing enemy army morale by -2.

And as Zsrai said, executing affects relationships with other factions aside from the faction whose men you killed: it can be an easy way to boost relations with your vassals and other factions who don't like the faction whose men you are executing.

[chianh1305]

Thank you guys, I got the points now. Now I will have to consider more thoughtfully on those three options.