You can talk to Noldor prisoners for an option to release them for 1 renown and +1 relationship with the Noldor.

Heretic pseudo-leaders: Seeress, Eyegrim the Devourer.

Elite Snake Cult troops: Serpent Priestess, Azi Dahaka Serpent Priestess, Anaconda Knight.

You may want to avoid dragging around low value infantry, while keeping mounted prisoners around for a bit longer.Ĭertain troops can't be knocked unconscious, meaning they can't be captured. Prisoners are considered party members for the sake of calculating speed, thus the amount and speed of prisoners can result in increasing or decreasing Party Speed. Your Prisoner Management skill governs how many prisoners you can take at a time: 10 for every point. If you have a castle, you can check nearby cities until you find a broker, and then convey your prisoners to his location. If you have no city but have higher prisoner management, you can travel around capturing prisoners and selling them as you find ransom brokers.

If you have a city, you can put all your prisoners in it until a ransom broker appears in your tavern. Prisoners can be a great source of money if you have high Prisoner Management, or a city or castle to store them in. Sending your troops into battle without you will very often result in wounding enemy troops, which can be useful if on a quest to capture enemy soldiers. This feature only applies to non-elite troops (nearly all troops with level 39 and lower, except for the Noldor Warrior) Also, if the enemy has prisoners, after defeating him the player is allowed to get these prisoners to his army, and trade them for theirs (if he lacks party room). Once you have taken prisoners, you may recruit them to your party, ransom them to Red Brotherhood agents or Ramun the Slave Trader (found in taverns in cities), or garrison them in a city. Very rarely, sharp weapons may result in wounding, due to reasons unknown (possibly the surgery skill on the opposite side). You can only capture the enemies who have been knocked unconscious through the use of blunt weapons ( horse charging is also blunt damage).

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