However, in rare cases where you've taken a lord or noble prisoner who's causing you too many problems, you may want instead to choose to execute them as a last resort. Your main options are recruitment or ransom, and your decision will probably be led by whether you're more in need of troops or gold at the time. Once you've taken an enemy character prisoner, you have a few choices of how to deal with them. Should you exceed this prisoner cap, the prisoners will slow your army down in the world map and even have a chance to escape your grasp. The prisoner number cap is around half of your current troop party size.

Keep in mind at all times though that there is a limit to the number of prisoners you can capture. Of those unconscious enemies, you'll then get a choice of which ones to capture and make your prisoner. (You'll know if you have killed an enemy if the notification at the top right of the screen shows a red skull, and a white skull shows they're unconscious.)Īt the end of the battle, you'll get a results screen which shows both numbers of killed and unconscious enemies. On the subject of kills versus takedowns, it's important to distinguish that running over an enemy with a horse will knock them unconscious as it counts as blunt damage, unless you have conched a lance in advance as that is a bladed weapon. Taking down an enemy with a bladed or ranged weapon will kill the soldier outright.

To take an enemy prisoner in Bannerlord, no matter if they are regular bandits or the noblest of lords, you need to defeat them in battle by knocking them unconscious by using blunt weapons. Watch on YouTube How to capture enemy soldiers in Bannerlord

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