It may be in your interest to keep lords as prisoners for as long as possible, an opposing nation can only have as many armies as they have lords. Oftentimes, the request will be repeated, occasionally with a higher price. If the offer is rejected, the player's reputation with the nation in question will decrease, as will their honor. If you don't hand them over to someone else, you will most likely receive repeated events over time requesting that the captured noble be returned to their native kingdom for a price. You have two other options with lords: you can hold onto them and wait for their kingdom to offer a reward, or sometimes a competing kingdom will offer to take them off your hands when talking to their lords or leader. Finally, one shouldn't ignore the possibility of equipping a bludgeoning weapon and hunting down prize enemies personally.Д¬ommon prisoners can be handed over in taverns to wandering Ransom Brokers, however, lords can not be ransomed this way. Another way is to recruit Manhunters to your army, since they exclusively use bludgeoning weapons and can be upgraded to potent light cavalry, though this can be difficult as the only way to acquire them is to recruit them from prisoners. One way to do so is simply to order your troops to use blunt weapons to knock the enemy out. Kingdoms will often offer to ransom any captured lords in your possession for anywhere between 1,500-5,000 denars, while leaders (kings, queens, etc.) go for much higher prices (even over 80,000 denars at times).ДЄs selling prisoners to Ransom Brokers can be a highly profitable enterprise, especially early to mid game, there are a number of ways to increase the number of captured prisoners. You can ransom common prisoners (soldiers, bandits, etc.) for 50-300 denars.

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