
It may take having that prisoner in your party for a long time before you get the option to convert them to your cause. You can find a list of the best ones for each region in our Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord troops guide. If you capture a particularly strong soldier you may wish to recruit them to your army. Ransoming prisoners also has the side effect of increasing your trade and roguery skill points and I highly recommend taking some time to ransom them one by one to increase those skill points multiple times. Looters are worth practically nothing, but if you manage to capture a highly specialised soldier, or even a lord/noble, then they are worth significantly more gold. How much gold you get is dependent on the prisoners you have. These towns have taverns where you can ransom some or all of the prisoners you have, in exchange for gold. Now that you have captured some soldiers or bandits, what do you do with them? The simplest way to deal with them is to head to the biggest town nearby. 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. 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. 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. Taking down an enemy with a bladed or ranged weapon will kill the soldier outright. To capture all kinds of enemies, 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. How to capture enemy soldiers in Bannerlord


That's not all you can do with your prisoners though, as you can ransom them for a good source funds for your campaign. In Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord, the most efficient way to get new troops for your army is to recruit prisoners who are willing to change their alliances.
