So I was besieged by an army they had 2400 troops I had 1500. Using the ambush to reduce the health of their seige engines and my fire pots thrown on the troops I forced them to retreat after a battle Got the victory screen, it says I get blah blah percent of the loot etc. But there was no loot or prisoner screen. The seige continues, they rebuild & heal, I ambush, they attack, victory screen.... This happened three times, eventually the enemy army lost cohesion and their parties dispersed. I was down to about 200 unwounded troops so I decided not to persue them. My question is what happened to all the prisoners, loot and experience? I won three battles against a superior army! submitted by /u/Nondescript-Shoe [link] [comments]
From Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700.
Kings in seventh-century Britain were still overwhelmingly men of war. As in Merovingian Francia, rulers were expected to lead their armies into battle, and it is striking how many died doing so. Across the forty years of the early to mid-seventh century, of the six kings who ruled over the East Angles, five died violently. Early medieval warfare was always an uncertain business, and the relatively small size of armies in seventh-century Britain made warfare there even more so: as a late seventh-century law of the West Saxon king Ine decreed, ‘Up to seven men we call thieves, between seven and thirty-five a war-band, more than thirty-five an army’. Even kings who were victorious in battle might yet fall victim to assassination or plots orchestrated by their rivals. This was a world where, to adapt the words of Thomas Hobbes, no king was so weak he could not kill another.
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