Most Prisoners You Ever Had?

[henyo10]

I had like 400 prisoners one time in a siege battle when I was the defender. And the value for the ransom was a whooping 3-4k gold.

[Carl von Döbeln]

456 in campaign

1543 In custom Battles

[Dash]

Over 1000. (there were two armies vs. me)

Gotta love hammer and anvil tactics.

[GVP]

About a 1400 and the faction leader, and heir. It was a battle betwen Venice(me) and Milan. I managed to create a total rout and just captured all the units. I think the ransom was over 20k. I didn't accept, so the poor bastards were executed. I did take Milan the next turn though.

[Celsius]

How to I get more prisoners. i just get about 40-60 prisoners.

[jsktrogdor]

How to I get more prisoners. i just get about 40-60 prisoners.

Lots of calvary (I only use four, you can do it with 2), rout them early and let them run (be sure not to trap them so they fight to the death). Once they rout send your calvary after the furthest back infantry, dont bother with other calvary they're too fast. If you can catch the farthest back infantry you should be able to catch them all.

[Celsius]

ok, thanks

[Hungary Horace]

Use gunpowder weapons in conjucntion with fire arrows and a high dread general and they will run like fun really quickly. Also helps if you are fighting peasents or milita grade units as they are more cowardly.

[GVP]

My tactics are usually based on routing the enemy army, so I get tons of prisoners.
One is that infantry hold the enemy in place then I use cavalary on just one flank to attack the back of every second enemy unit. Then about 3/4 of their army will rout. And I always chase down routing units even in the middle of the battle.

[removeduser_426582376423734]

Don't kill them all.

[Celsius]

well that sucks.

[duda]

2406, in campaign, with a load of trebizond archers, latiknon and varangians. the prisoners were mostly italian militia, with the excpetion of the venetian king.

[zligor]

Once I defended myself ( 10star-high dread general and 5-6 units of vardaritoi) against allmost full stack of peasants commanded by one poor venetian general. There was very little fighting and I captured most of them (and executed them) Nearly 2000 captives, if I remember correctly. My personal record.

[duda]

Once I defended myself ( 10star-high dread general and 5-6 units of vardaritoi) against allmost full stack of peasants commanded by one poor venetian general. There was very little fighting and I captured most of them (and executed them) Nearly 2000 captives, if I remember correctly. My personal record.

My younger brother likes ransoming them (probably smarter option), but i find satisfaction in slaughterin every prisoner. Damn the geneva convention lol, joking.

[GuineaPig]

About 8000 in a battle as Templars against the Fatimids.

[The Noble Lord]

About 8000 in a battle as Templars against the Fatimids.

Really, that many. How many stacks were there then, on both sides??
To have that many units in one place. I would understand if you played Mongols, but Templars and Fatimids. I didn't know that they can have that many stacks on the battlefield.

[stormbringer951]

10 star 10 dread general + heavy cavalry hammer and anvil tactics = 1500 prisoners (playing with huge unit sizes, VH VH). I captured the last king of England, and put him out of his misery (what, don't look at me like that, he was a leper....)

[Andy B]

I remember taking over 1000 french prisoners + thier Prince
at the battle for Bruges, I kept hovering over Release / Ransom / Exectue just to hear them beg, then I executed them all =]

[Shadow8]

i got about a thousand in one battle once

killed about the same i think like 110 got away from a fullstack army

that was in campaign the ransom was worth like 20,000 it was ridiculous

[TheTrueGreek]

my captures rarely higher than 400, but i have to play on small scale so the numbers arnt quite the same