Sacking Settlements

[Bdunk21]

How come in this game you get hardly any money from sacking a settlement? This was always a useful strategy to gain more money. Is there anyway to put it back in?? Thanks

[Hermes Trismegistos]

It's just that most settlements have very low population in the beginning, I think. It will change with time when the settlements grow, around turn 100 I have regularly gained more than 10000 from sacking in my current Mordor campaign.

[TheDarkKnight]

I have never understood exactly what sacking the settlement did...

[mattttb]

I have never understood exactly what sacking the settlement did...

The idea is that you basically take anything of any value from the town/towns-people, anything that isn't nailed down, you do a bit of pillaging, a bit of rape, a bit of burning...a useful tactical option if you don't actually plan on holding the lands you have just acquired and only took them out of necessity. You can get a decent amount of money if there are enough people living in the town that you can take valuables from - unfortunately not everyone likes being subjugated/raped/stolen from and so a few locals die during the sacking. Keeps the populace quiet for a couple turns too if they're close to rebelling (although extermination is best for this kind of oppression).

[Bloodly]

I have never understood exactly what sacking the settlement did...

Kills some population, destroys/damages random structures. It's a relatively neutral option, where Occupy is +Respect(And a lot of unrest) and Exterminate is +Dread(And cripples the town-then again, with as slow as growth is, many places won't grow anyway, so...).

[Trailhog250]

Kills some population, destroys/damages random structures.

Not to correct you or anything but I'm fairly sure I've never seen a building destroyed from it The only way to destroy a building is to own the settlement and raze it. Otherwise, they can only be damaged. (though they can be damaged up to 100% I believe and it just costs lots of $$$ to repair it)

I could be wrong though

[Shocked]

Not to correct you or anything but I'm fairly sure I've never seen a building destroyed from it The only way to destroy a building is to own the settlement and raze it. Otherwise, they can only be damaged. (though they can be damaged up to 100% I believe and it just costs lots of $$$ to repair it)

I could be wrong though

I've sacked important settlements before and lost important custom buildings in the process, so yes it does destroy buildings

[Syanur]

I've sacked important settlements before and lost important custom buildings in the process, so yes it does destroy buildings

Are you sure?? I mean, at vanilla Med2 there was no destroying building when you get settlement(in any option). If they changed this for TATW, i will be carefull for important cities... I thought @Trailhog was right...

[Pinkie Pie]

You bundle the city in a sack and beat it with sticks until money pops out

[Bdunk21]

Cheers Hermes makes sense actually.

Lol Martin

[TheDarkKnight]

You bundle the city in a sack and beat it with sticks until money pops out

Interesting...Is that like slashing grass in Zelda until you get stuff?

[Pinkie Pie]

Interesting...Is that like slashing grass in Zelda until you get stuff?

Pretty much only you get to wear a cool hat.

[nein]

heavily populated advanced settlements will reward you with alot of cash

[Trailhog250]

You bundle the city in a sack and beat it with sticks until money pops out

+rep for that

Have not played Gondor yet in 3.1 (or any other faction ) but I use to always go sack Harad's Coastal cities earlier to destroy their trade and the core of their economy. Also, after you sack a settlement, if you don't plan on holding it destroy EVERY building there you can. You can destroy everything except: walls, farms, and iconic buildings. (e.g. Orthanc) I've gained 10,000's of $$$ before in early games via doing that. And when the enemy takes it back it will be a worthless settlement, unfortunately if you end up taking it back later (a few turns) it's basically useless. I only do that when I know I'm not going to have use for it for at least 25+ turns.

I would only exterminate a settlement if I did not want the enemy to upgrade it any time soon. Because it kills a MASSIVE % of the population. In my games it's usually something like this:
Occupy: 80%
Sack: 15%
Exterminate: 5%

[Shocked]

It's either that or the AI destroyed the buildings, but i'm pretty sure it was the sacking