Prisoners

**killerrabbit** · August 23, 2009, 06:55 AM

Hey there, with the new NTW I was hoping that CA would finally include prisoners, mainly because they were pretty important, for selling or for trading them back for other prisoners.

so my question, does anyone knows if they'll be included?

**lordhedgwich** · August 23, 2009, 09:45 AM

i hope so even though i just exicuted mine half the time cuz no one would buy them back

**Ebusitanus** · August 23, 2009, 09:59 AM

Not sure if there was much medieval type of prisoner exchange. Most prisoners rotted away at their enemy´s prison camps or, in the case of the french prisoners from the battle of Bailen of 1808, one some isolated island rock south of Mallorca.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bail%C3%A9n

The rank-and-file were led aboard prison-ships converted for the purpose and removed to squalid camps on Cabrera and the Canary Islands between 1809 and 1813. A small portion was eventually transferred to milder imprisonment in England. One group, languishing in the floating prison hulks in the Bay of Cádiz, rose up in 1811 and overwhelmed their captors, cutting the mooring cables and floating to the safety of the French lines surrounding the city.[2] Only 1,500 of the French prisoners were released or relocated, or escaped their island-prisons, during the Napoleonic wars. Fewer than half the prisoners ever returned home; most died in cruel captivity.[58] On July 6, 1814, the remaining survivors returned to France: the last of Bailén.

**Jefzor** · August 23, 2009, 04:40 PM

Didn't they use prisoners for the labour people didn;t want to do , like slaves.

**General_Meevious** · August 23, 2009, 07:01 PM

I believe a lot of prisoners were returned when treaties were signed etc. I know that, in Empire's time at least, some regiments were actually drafted (at least originally) from prisoners of war, France's Royal Suedois regiment being a prime example.

**René Artois** · August 23, 2009, 07:29 PM

Most were put in prison hulks (old ships that did not sail) basically floating prisons

**aggie_john** · August 24, 2009, 12:10 AM

Well I think the ideal is that units actually surrender on the battle field and are taken prisoner, or killed if your a cruel commander, think Bloody Tarenton. That was a cool concept in M2TW the concept of being a gentleman or a cruel monster, and it is not like Napoleon did not walk the fine line here and there himself. Perhaps the treatment of Prisoners could influence your relationships with other nations akin to the honoring of treaties? I think it poses an opportunity to add a national RPG element to the game, how one runs the affairs or state, which is desperately missing in ETW.